Villiers, Frederic. Port Arthur: three months with the besiegers. [*]$2.50. Longmans.
An English war correspondent’s story of three months with the Japanese army before Port Arthur. It is a vivid and stirring account as far as it goes, but unfortunately the author left the army two months before the actual fall of the fortress.
“Mr. Villiers’ impressions ... form a series of word-pictures which, although at times they are somewhat disjointed, make interesting reading, and this, too, despite the irritating and frequently recurring fact that unimportant and somewhat egotistical information about the writer and his field companions is unnecessarily obtruded upon the attention of the reader.”
| + + | Acad. 68: 174. F. 25, ‘05. 550w. |
“The text is brightly written, in a vein altogether cheerful.”
| + | Dial. 38: 275. Ap. 16, ‘05. 150w. |
“It is simply the diary of an experienced observer.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 316. Ap. 20, ‘05. 3650w. |
“It is as a study of human nature exposed to exceptional conditions that it holds the interest of the reader from the first page to the last.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 260. Ap. 22, ‘05. 760w. |