On the Field of Glory

From Reviews of Reviews, Volume 34: "The Field of Glory," is full of the elements which give perennial charm to the romances of Scott and Dumas. In this book, the novelist transports us to the heroic days when Poland, under John Sobieski, rode forth to save Christendom from the Infidel, who but for the Poles would have captured Vienna. "The Field of Glory" gives us a vivid picture of the bloodshed and turmoil of the seventeenth century in the...
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From Reviews of Reviews, Volume 34:

"The Field of Glory," is full of the elements which give perennial charm to the romances of Scott and Dumas.

In this book, the novelist transports us to the heroic days when Poland, under John Sobieski, rode forth to save Christendom from the Infidel, who but for the Poles would have captured Vienna. "The Field of Glory" gives us a vivid picture of the bloodshed and turmoil of the seventeenth century in the territories which formed the rampart of Christendom. It enables us of the West to understand why the Poles think so much of themselves, and how bitterly they resent their present position. The Pole, in his own estimation, at least, and in that of the Turks, was in those days the finest fighting man in Europe. The borderland of Christian and Paynim was the natural seed-plot for deeds of derring-do.

"The Field of Glory" reminds us of "Ivanhoe " and " The Talisman," and the three burly brothers are an Eastern somewhat brutalized variant upon the three musketeers of Dumas's immortal romance. The names are somewhat uncouth, and Panna as a substitute for Countess is unfamiliar to our ears. But despite these drawbacks, "The Field of Glory " is a good stirring romance of Polish chivalry.