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The San Francisco Chronicle:
“‘Confessions of a Barbarian’ is equally entertaining whether you are American or European; the contrast between the countries and the people are skilfully and boldly drawn, and the writing is, throughout, vigorous and stimulating. It may stir you to rage, but it will not let you go to sleep.”

William Marion Reedy says:
“Mr. Viereck goes at the problem of Europe as if it were terra incognita. As one of the most startling among les jeunes, he sees the older civilization from the view- point of a man whose conceptions of life and art are the very antipodes of the thought of Tolstoi. His boldness, his frank and naked unashamedness, and his rather hectically temperamental treatment of his theme will be found to be savored with no little of the daring unconventionality of the writers of France and Germany. . . . No reader will doubt that they are the work of a writer of literary skill and of art-for-art’s-sake ideas. He will be seen to have found in Europe what he went to seek; and his articles will appeal to all persons who yearn to escape from the commonplace. . . .