Times._ The various incidents of the siege which he selects in order to present it in its different aspects form a graphic whole which can never be forgotten by any one who has once read it, and it must be read to be appreciated .-- _Nation_, N.Y.
The descriptions, it is needless to say, are masterly.

No novelist has ever before succeeded in thus depicting the emotions and utterances of the soldier in battle .-- _Boston Beacon._ A powerful appeal against warfare, written in that wonderful style which lends life and character to the most trivial incidents he describes.

It is a fascinating book, and one of its chief merits is the introspective art and analytical power which every page reveals....

This is the most nervous and dramatic production of Tolstoi that has been rendered into English .-- _N.Y.

Sun._ It is, undoubtedly, the most graphic and powerful of Tolstoi's works that has been given to the American reading public....