“One cannot easily recall a more vivid picture of what a siege really is. The value of [the chapter, ‘How I saw the relief,’] as fiction is doubtful. As history its interest is great, but more than any other portion of the book it requires the support of authority. If it is to stand as authentic history, it constitutes a chapter that will be willingly forgotten by every one save the student of mob psychology.” Edward Clark Marsh.
| + − | Bookm. 25: 288. My. ’07. 1620w. |
“The reader cannot help feeling that the narrative is colored, that the real facts cannot have been quite so lurid or the characters of the men and women quite so mean as they are here portrayed. But after all deductions are made, the story here given, of the warning, the siege, and sack, is remarkably interesting, even tho it is full of horrors.”
| + − | Dial. 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 310w. |
“Vivid and remarkably good reading the account is, almost throughout, although too often the author or editor strives too patently after his effect.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 570. Je. 20, ’07. 480w. |
“They are certainly indiscreet, for they are frank and outspoken in regard to the blindness of the British government, and they are full of spirit and picturesqueness.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 144. Mr. 9, ’07. 230w. |
“The note of high tension, so high that it is almost hysterical, runs through all the pages.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 284. My. 4, ’07. 660w. |