"A very ingenious attempt to bring the recent discoveries of the critical school into working competition with the miserable Goldsmiths and Pinnocks of our youth."—Christian Remembrancer.
"The clear, lively, and pleasing style of narration is admirably calculated to awaken and sustain the attention."—Athenæum.
"A work which we strongly recommend as certain to afford pleasure and profit to every reader."—Athenæum.
"Mrs. Gray has won an honourable place in the large assembly of modern female writers."—Quarterly Review.
"We warmly recommend Mrs. Gray's most useful and interesting volume."—Edinburgh Review.
"The story is well planned, well varied, and well written."—Spectator.
"More sound principles and useful practical remarks we have not lately met in any work on the much-treated subject of education. The book is written with liveliness as well as good sense."—Literary Gazette.
"A volume of excellent tendency, which may be put with safety and advantage into the hands of well-educated young people."—Evangelical Magazine.
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"They are, in truth, as appears to us, compositions of very rare merit, and realise a notion we have always entertained, that a sermon for our rural congregations there somewhere was, if it could be hit off, which in language should be familiar without being plain, and in matter solid without being abstruse."—Quarterly Review.
"These Sermons are marked by unaffected piety, great clearness of exposition, and a direct plainness of style and purpose which render them pre-eminently practical."—Britannia.
"A set of plain, spirited discourses, which are not unlikely to disturb the repose of the drowsy, and to send home simple truths to the hearts that heed them. The Sermons are, besides, scriptural in their doctrinal views, charitable in temper, unpolemical, rather asserting the truth than contending for it."—Christian Observer.
"The general, as well as the medical reader, will find this a most interesting and instructive volume."—Gentleman's Magazine.
"A very interesting memoir to every class of readers."—Christian Observer.
"Parents and teachers will gain many useful hints from the perusal of this volume."—Record.
"Discourses addressed to a village congregation. The chief aim of the preacher has been to enforce practical conclusions for the guidance of the humblest, from some of the most striking events or sentiments of Scripture. The style is plain and forcible."—Spectator.