“The narrative is one of sustained interest. The circumstances and environment are described with the grace and restraint proper to a record of what took place on Japanese soil. Lord Redesdale’s hand has lost none of its cunning.”
+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 122. Ag. 4. 1020w.
“The author’s pages have a richness of suggestion and interpretation which is absent from those of most writers on Japan.”
+ Ind. 61: 1114. N. 8, ’06. 420w.
“Most wonderful of all, and most to be commended to those of our readers who have never seen Japan, is the picture which Lord Redesdale conjures with singular vividness and convincing force, of a people trained to greatness, because trained to the pursuit of great ideals, under a code of national ethics unique in the history of the whole world, of which the first and last commandment is that where Japan is concerned ‘self entirely disappears.’”
+ + Lond. Times. 5: 232. Je. 29, ’06. 2640w.
“With such companions as Kuroki, Togo and Asano, and with sport, travel and novel experiences with people, country gentlemen and palace occupants, all told of so pleasantly, one must call this little book a garden of delights.”
+ + Nation. 83: 539. D. 20, ’06. 560w. N. Y. Times. 11: 473. Jl. 28, ’06. 2640w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 755. N. 17, ’06. 1420w.
“There is a great deal more in Lord Redesdale’s book than a mere account of ceremonials and the general doings of the mission. It is an impressionist sketch of the difference between the old and the new in Japan, written by one who is no mere globe-trotter but has seen both.”
+ Sat. R. 102: 244. Ag. 25, ’06. 440w.