"[...] General Booth's scheme of social salvation is before the world in the form of a book. Let us examine the prophecy of this would-be Moses of the serfs of poverty and degradation. An ordinary author would sign himself "William Booth," but this one is "General" even on a title-page. In Darkest England is an obvious plagiarism on Stanley, and The Way Out is suggested by his long travel through the awful Central African forest. In the preface General Booth acknowledges the "valuable literary help" of a "friend of the poor, who, [...]."