Being a Series of Descriptions and Sketches in Which It Is Attempted to Reproduce Certain Incidents and Periods in History, as From the Testimony of a Person Present at Each. In "The Eye-Witness" Mr. Belloc has attempted, upon the record of one vivid experience, to reconstruct certain passages of the past-to present successive pictures stretching across the whole period of Christian history. Mr. Belloc's work always commands attention, and his new volume, not only for the fascination of its theme, but also for the purity of its style, will do much to increase his popularity.
-The Academy, Vol. 75 [1908]