The Edinburgh Dispatch says:—
"The author has shown scholarship and much enthusiasm in his task."
The Daily Record says:—
"The kindly, vain, and pompous little wig-maker lives for us in Mr. Smeaton's pages."
The Glasgow Herald says:—
"A careful and intelligent study."
Of HUGH MILLER, by W. Keith Leask, the Expository Times says:—
"It is a right good book and a right true biography.... There is a very fine sense of Hugh Miller's greatness as a man and a Scotsman; there is also a fine choice of language in making it ours."
The Bookseller says:—
"Mr. Leask gives the reader a clear impression of the simplicity, and yet the greatness, of his hero, and the broad result of his life's work is very plainly and carefully set forth. A short appreciation of his scientific labours, from the competent pen of Sir Archibald Geikie, and a useful bibliography of his works, complete a volume which is well worth reading for its own sake, and which forms a worthy installment in an admirable series."