“As a companion to Browning’s works the Cyclopædia will be most valuable; it is a laborious, if necessary, piece of work, conscientiously performed, for which present and future readers and students of Browning ought to be really grateful.”—Nottingham Daily Guardian.
“A monumental labour, and fitting company for the great compositions he elucidates.”—Rock.
“It is very well that so patient and ubiquitous a reader as Dr. Berdoe should have written this useful cyclopædia, and cleared the meaning of many a dark and doubtful passage of the poet.”—Black and White.
“It is not too much to say that Dr. Berdoe has earned the gratitude of every reader of Browning, and has materially aided the study of English literature in one of its ripest developments.”—British Weekly.
“Dr. Berdoe’s Cyclopædia should make all other handbooks unnecessary.”—Star.
“We are happy to commend the volume to Browning students as the most ambitious and useful in its class yet executed.”—Notes and Queries.
“A most learned and creditable piece of work. Not a difficulty is shirked.”—Vanity Fair.
“A monument of industry and devotion. It has really faced difficulties, it is conveniently arranged, and is well printed and bound.”—Bookman.
“A wonderful help.”—Gentlewoman.
“Can be strongly recommended as one for a favourite corner in one’s library.”—Whitehall Review.