“Our festival year is a bulwark of orthodoxy as real as our confessions of faith.”—Professor Archer Butler.
“Mr. Grant’s scholarship is endorsed by authorities; his method is good, his style clear, and his treatment so impartial that his work has been praised alike by Church Times, Record, Watchman, Freeman, and Nonconformist. No words of ours could better prove the catholicity of a most instructive and valuable work.”—Peterborough Advertiser.
“The work shows very plainly that much care and judgment has been used in its compilation.... The intrinsic worth of its contents and their lasting usefulness admirably adapt it for a present. The eight engravings have been chosen so as to give examples of the highest samples of sacred art.”—Oxford Times.
“A very delightful volume for Sunday reading, the devotional character of the hymns giving an especial charm to the work. The historical information will be proved full of interest to young Churchmen, and young ladies especially will find the work to be one well adapted to inform the mind and gladden the heart.”—Bible Christian Magazine.
“Mr. Grant’s volume is worthy of high praise, alike for its careful research and its discriminative quotations. There is so much religious literature which is below the level of criticism, that we cannot but welcome a volume which commends itself to a cultivated Christian audience.”—Echo.
“Mr. John Hogg is always successful in producing an attractive array of books for youthful readers, ... and we ought to add, that all his publications are prettily got up.”—Bristol Mercury.