| + + + | Ath. 1905, 2: 262. Ag. 26. 1010w. |
“Dr. Bigg is, of course, master of his subject, and able to handle it with lightness of touch, breadth of sympathy, and gentle humour.” Alice Gardner.
| + + | Eng. Hist. R. 20: 547. Jl. ‘05. 510w. |
Bilse, Oswald Fritz (Fritz von der Kryburg, pseud.). Dear fatherland. $1.50. Lane.
“The story of a young lieutenant in the German army, from the time he entered the service to his downfall, the result of a debt brought upon him by the false standard of living prescribed by army life. The novel is a pen picture of the evil social and moral effects of army life existing in Germany.”—Bookm.
“Besides being an interesting story of the realistic school, the work has a two-fold value. It presents a striking picture of present-day garrison-life in Germany and illustrates how degrading and subversive of all that is worthiest in man is such an existence.”
| + | Arena. 33: 673. Je. ‘05. 350w. |
“The chief interest and the strongest conviction are found less in the story than in the talk.”
| + | Nation. 80: 234. Mr. 23, ‘05. 400w. |
“Its revelations are sordid and sickening to the last degree, and there is no obvious excuse for its English publication, except as that of giving an awful warning to the English-speaking nations to guard their own war machines from ever sinking into such abysmal depths of immorality and inefficiency as are here charged against the soldiery of Germany. The book seems to be written by a man of devoted and intelligent patriotism, who has risked what he prized most in order to remedy the evils which he deplores. To say that the narrative is of any value as an example of the novelist’s art would be a decided stretching of the truth.”