“We are always happy to meet with such true-hearted reformers as the enemies to fraud and villany. Detesting the impositions of every form and variety to which the simple inhabitants of this metropolis are daily made victims, our author in a tone of ardent indignation, and disdaining to mince his expressions at a crisis so full of peril, denounces in forcible language the scandalous practices of adulteration, from which no material of food or luxury seems to be exempted. The style, however, is occasionally diversified, and no sooner have we been roused into a sympathetic feeling of anger with the author against this set of impostors, than we are called on to unite with him in a hearty laugh at the ridiculous plight into which, by a humourous and amusing term of expression, he puts another community of base adulterators. We have not met, lately, with a volume of this compass, which contains more useful information and amusing matter than the present one.”—Monthly Review for Nov. 1830.

“We honestly recommend this eventful volume.”—New Monthly Magazine, Jan. 1831.

“To go over all the subjects which this admirable volume embraces, would fill many pages of our work; we must, therefore, refer our readers to the work itself; and we shall be greatly astonished, if, after having perused it, they do not thank us for the advice.”—Monthly Gazette of Health, for Oct. 1830.

“This is a volume of intense and surpassing interest; its use and excellence should be known to every person who values health and life; it should form an appendage to every family library.”

“This interesting book is evidently the production of a man of considerable talents.”—Lancet, Jan. 1831.

“This is a work of great public utility, and in author, whose honesty and public spirit have placed him in the foremost rank of benefactors to the public welfare, is richly entitled to the gratitude of the community.”

See also Imp. Mag. for Dec. 1830; Home Missionary, for Oct. 1830; News, for Jan. 1831; Atlas, for Jan. 1831; United Kingdom, Jan, 1831, &c. &c.