=Army and Navy Register:=
“The poems show a keen appreciation of the romantic and picturesque side
of the soldier’s life with touches of humor and pathos that make up the
comedy and tragedy of the calling. Mr. Garrett’s verses are truly
sympathetic and appeal to worthy sentiment. They are among the best of
anything which has been written in any form concerning the Army and they
deserve appreciation. If the Army has a poet who has shown himself by
his verses capable of expressing in this form service traditions and
military life, it must be this former soldier. Mr. Garrett has preserved
the varying conditions of the soldier’s life and the soldier’s sentiment
in verses that are really worth while.***”
=The Philadelphia Record:=
“He has a happy knack of making vivid word-pictures; when he describes
something of a battle it all seems clear before our vision; when he
tells of camp life, the tented fields are there, and the men, and their
tasks. When he draws portraits such as those of ‘The Old Sergeant,’ ‘The
ex-Soldier’ and ‘The Rookie’ these men stand strong and life-like before
us.***”
=Chicago Inter-Ocean:=
“***‘My Bunkie and Other Ballads,’ by Erwin Clarkson Garrett, are poems
straight from the heart of a private soldier, full of freshness and
color, swing and melody.***”
“Mr. Garrett’s songs are racy of the soil and of the life they
celebrate. They have an appeal for all Americans, but particularly for
the thousands of American young men who in war times saw the Philippines
over the sights of a Krag-Jorgensen.”
=Philadelphia Press:=
“The American soldier has found his Kipling in Erwin Clarkson
Garrett.***”
=The New York Evening Post:=
“***They are the poems of a man who has marched and fought and slept
with the Army, and they have the right ring.***”