“It is all very foolish and a little improper, but peculiarly ingenious and interesting withal.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 200w. |
Weale, B. L. Putnam, ed. [Indiscreet letters from Peking; being the notes of an eye-witness, which set forth in some detail, from day to day, the real story of the siege and sack of a distressed capital in 1900—the year of] the great tribulation. **$2. Dodd.
7–14591.
“This volume is really the story, not the history, of the siege of the legations in Peking, of the relief of the besieged, and of the sack of the city. Interesting sidelights are cast upon the actions of the diplomatic representatives of allied Europe and America, and ... [there are] comments upon the way the different international troops behaved during the siege.”—R. of Rs.
“These letters bear the hall-mark of truth and raise the wish that it had not been necessary to edit them as ruthlessly as they are said to have been edited. Though his style is vivid he lays no undue emphasis on horrors for their own sake. He writes with that kind of restraint which is convincing, and which goes to make these letters one of the most remarkable documents we have ever read.”
| + + − | Acad. 72: 235. Mr. 9. ’07. 1350w. |
“This ‘catch penny’ title is descriptive of the contents of the volume.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 635. My. 25. 360w. |