Daily Mail (Glasgow).—“The story unfolded is very interesting and full of exciting incidents.”

Aberdeen Free Press.—“A highly readable piece of work, and it would, we feel sure, if suitably mounted and in the hands of capable actors, prove eminently effective on the stage. The action is rapid, there are no diffuse vapourings, and there is ample scope for attractive scenic effect.”

Independent (Sheffield).—“The Assyrian setting makes a novel background, and there is movement and some striking situations in the play.”

To-day.—“It is a very sensible book, and Apollo knows what he is talking about.”

County Gentleman.—“Will prove useful to aspiring young athletes.”

Westminster Gazette.—“Those who take an interest in Physical Culture will find the manual instructive and useful.”

Football Echo.—“‘Ideal Physical Culture’ scatters to the wind much of the nonsense and bunkum written ad nauseam about the strong man, his biceps, his triceps, the muscular fat, and his stupendous feats.”

Morning Post.—“Contains a great deal of pleasing information concerning the origin of our nursery songs, fairy tales and games … and the author treats his subject in a manner which is both entertaining and intelligible.”

World.—“Will be found entertaining by everybody.”

Spectator.—“The reader will find much curious matter in Mr Green’s volume.”

Examiner (Cork).—“A comprehensive and thoroughly interesting book.”

Madame.—“A most interesting book.… To those mothers who have their children round them in the story-telling twilight this book of Mr Green’s should be a treasury of delight.”

Observer.—“That East Anglia exercises a very potent spell over those who once come under its influence is proved by the case of George Borrow, and all who share in the fascination will delight in this brightly written, companionable little volume.”

Graphic.—“It is a prettily got up and readable little book.”

Saturday Review.—“Will be welcomed by all who have come under the charm of East Anglia.”

Mr Andrew Lang, in the course of a long and laudatory notice in Longman’s Magazine, said:—“It is a strange photograph of rude and violent life. The narrator always carries his life in his fist. He describes, better than any other writer, the existence of a tramp, and gives an amazing account of the brutality, and even torture, practised on workers in some parts of the United States.… The book is as simple in style as Swift’s writing; a kind of labouring Trelawny might have fathered these adventures of a younger son.”

Mr Richard Le Gallienne (in the Idler).—“‘A Man Adrift’ has held me as few recent books have power to do. The book is ‘real’ because it has first been really lived, and then been really written. Mr Kennedy’s book has held me, not only by its reality, but by its courage, its pity, its humour, its all-embracing humanity, its quiet fierceness. ‘A Man Adrift’ is a brave book.”

Morning Leader.—“The record of an adventurous life, when well told, always appeals to the imagination and sympathy of the reader, and ‘A Man Adrift’ is such a record. Presumably the adventures are real; they have all the vividness of reality at all events, and one follows the hardships and wanderings of the narrator with keen interest.… Mr Kennedy is to be congratulated on his ‘Man Adrift.’”

County Gentleman.—“This is the book of a strong man. It has vigour, originality and power, and comes as a refreshing change after the maudlin sentimentality of most modern stories.… Mr Kennedy has a characteristic style. He writes in short, crisp sentences that are at once direct and fearless. It is mainly his own story that he tells in this strangely fascinating volume.”

Great Thoughts.—“The most beautiful book on my table is ‘Woman and the Wits.’… In this lovely volume of about 200 pages some of the wisest, wittiest, tenderest epigrams on woman and on cognate topics to be found in ancient and modern times, have been brought together with taste and judgment.”

Ladies’ Pictorial.—“The compiler of this dainty little volume has produced a veritable lucky bag for the dipper who is anxious to find something smart and clever.”

Madame.—“A book that should find favour on every woman’s table.”

Literary World.—“The epigrams are well selected, and should form a perfect armoury for any young bachelor put up to propose the toast of ‘The Ladies.’… There is good variety too.”

Sun.—“Mr Longstaff has real fire and passion in all of his work. He has a graceful touch and a tuneful ear. There is exquisite melody in his metre.”

Times.—“He has passion and energy enough to stock half a dozen average minor poets.… But he has in him something of the stuff of which poetry—as opposed to verse—is made.”

Court Circular.—“Unquestionably a poet of a very high order—musical, suggestive, imaginative and picturesque. ‘In the Times to come’ is a beautiful poem, full of suggestion, with a subtle melody of its own. How well Mr Longstaff can write is seen in ‘A Hopeless Dawn.’ It is the work of a true poet. Mr Longstaff’s poems deserve more extended notice. There is art in his work, and music; and his verse is full of promise. Mr Longstaff’s muse is frank and sincere, and many of his readers will forgive her for not posing as a prude.”

Speaker.—“We hail with the greatest pleasure Mr George Bartram’s ‘Ballads of Ghostly Shires.’”

Academy.—“His descriptive passages have the true poetic touch, and a fresh grace about them. He is, in truth, well worth reading, and has the distinction of writing narrative verse well in a lyric age. It is a breezy, picturesque, taking little book.”

AthenÆum.—“Mr Bartram has the gift of description, and his vigorous narrative verse moves swiftly.”

Sunday Sun.—“Remarkable and beautiful poems. Enjoyable reading.”

Scotsman.—“This is a pleasant and an interesting volume of healthy English verse.… The book deserves to be read, and will interest any curious lover of poetry.”

North Star.—“Amusing and instructive poems illustrative of village life. Those who are on the lookout for new recitations should examine this volume.”

Glasgow Herald.—“His humour and satire are genial and well-meaning. He is not without sentiment, and his lyrical pieces will be heartily appreciated.”

Morning Leader.—“There is some good stuff and not a little quaint feeling in the verses of Rupert Upperton.”

St Andrew’s.—“Many a simple soul—and there are millions of such in our land—utterly unable to appreciate the poetry of the critics, will find itself charmed, purified and elevated by the kindly muse of Mr Upperton. Messrs Greening & Co. have done their work well, and enshrined these ‘woodnotes wild’ in a beautiful piece of letterpress.”

Bookman.—“This edition of Irving’s famous legends is in every way to be commended. Type, paper and illustrations are good, and Mr Fitz-Gerald adds to the originals the stage and literary history of ‘Rip van Winkle,’ which is well worth reading.”

Pall Mall Gazette.—“A pretty and interesting little book.”

Topical Times.—“A really interesting memento, and it costs only 2s.—a perfectly absurd price for a book of this size and quality. Beautifully bound in green cloth, red lettered, it is well printed, and artistically illustrated by Mr Will G. Mein.”