 In the April 1937 number of the "Left News" Gollancz reported that the book had produced "both more, and more interesting, letters than any other Club Choice.The book has done, perhaps in a greater degree than any previous book, what the Club is meant to do – it has provoked thought, and discussion of the keenest kind.While members with a training in scientific socialism have been surprised at the "naïveté" of the second part, they have found it valuable, as showing how much education they still have to do."