“Jail Journals are always a fascinating
study. The self-recorded
thoughts and impressions of man
forcibly isolated from his fellows
in the solitude of the jail have a
certain interest which is hard to explain.
This is the case even when
the recorder is a criminal. But
when, as in the present instance,
the individual is a highly cultured
‘political felon’ making his first
acquaintance with the means and
methods which twentieth century
civilisation has provided for the reformation
of those who transgress
its laws, then, indeed, we have in
such a one’s ‘Jail Journal’ something
of surpassing interest.”—_Mac._
_THIRD EDITION_