"The whole Essay is very suggestive, and well calculated to lead to instructive trains of thought."—Record.
"Those who use this interesting and beautifully-written manual will have 'Light in the Dwelling.' We can, with a good conscience, and an enlightened conviction, recommend the work, both for family and private reading."—Evangelical Magazine.
"We most earnestly direct the deep and serious attention of undergraduates at our universities, and theological students generally, to these weighty and important lectures."—Record.
"It must be very interesting to children. Those to whom we have read passages, taken at random, clap their little hands with delight."—English Journal of Education.
"A well-arranged and well-written book for children; compiled from the best writers on the various countries, and full of sound and useful information, pleasantly conveyed for the most part in the homely monosyllabic Saxon which children learn from their mothers and nurses."—Athenæum.
"Sermons distinguished by brevity, good sense, and a plainness of manner and exposition which well adapt them for family perusal, especially as their style is neat and simple, not bare."—Spectator.
"The many who have read the first volume of these sermons, will welcome, no doubt, with joy the appearance of the second. They are readable and preachable; and those of the second volume are even plainer and simpler than their predecessors. We recommend both volumes most heartily."—English Review.
"There is no published selection that we can call to mind which can, for an instant, bear comparison with this so efficiently made by Lady Northesk. In all respects, we have never seen a work so completely calculated to command success."—Church and State Gazette.
"A little book of probably large usefulness. It avoids disputed points, but conveys a clear and simple view of the holy rite of baptism. It is admirably suited to the cottage, as well as to all places in which ignorance reigns upon the subject."—Church and State Gazette.
"Thoroughly lively, sparkling, and witty, without reserve, from one end of the little volume to the other."—Literary Gazette.
"Strikingly illustrates the power of a clever writer to throw fresh attractions around the oldest topics."—Morning Post.
"The comments on Sunday-trading abroad, idolatry, and the religion of mere rites and ceremonies, do infinite credit to the genuine Protestantism of the Author. We thoroughly approve of the spirit of the comments, and have no hesitation in pronouncing 'Paterfamilias's Diary' the most amusing work of the kind we have ever perused."—Britannia.
"Sound and practical."—British Magazine.
"A most valuable work."—Church of England Magazine.
"This volume is designed for young children, and its contents are thrown into the dialogue form. The Circle of the Sciences is laid under contribution, not in any regular or scholastic order, but in such manner as to bring out the prominent facts which would be understood as 'Wonders of Creation,' showing the wisdom and goodness of the Creator. The illustration of scriptural facts is also continually kept in view, and suitable moral and religious lessons are drawn. The book is for holiday rather than for school use, and the forms of conversation are the better preserved by occasional digressions from the subject immediately in hand."—Record.