"The glimpses he allows to be seen of far-stretching vistas opening out on every side of his modest course of observation help to fix the attention of the negligent, and lighten the toil of the painstaking student…. Mr. Serviss writes with freshness and vivacity."—London Saturday Review.
"We are glad to welcome this, the second edition, of a popular introduction to the study of the heavens…. There could hardly be a more pleasant road to astronomical knowledge than it affords…. A child may understand the text, which reads more like a collection of anecdotes than anything else, but this does not mar its scientific value."—Nature.
"Mr. Garrett P. Serviss's book, 'Astronomy with an Opera-Glass,' offers us an admirable hand-book and guide in the cultivation of this noble æsthetic discipline (the study of the stars)."—New York Home Journal.
"The book should belong to every family library."—Boston Home Journal.
"This book ought to make star-gazing popular."—New York Herald.
"The author attributes much of the indifference of otherwise well-informed persons regarding the wonders of the starry firmament to the fact that telescopes are available to few, and that most people have no idea of the possibilities of the more familiar instrument of almost daily use whose powers he sets forth."—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
"By its aid thousands of people who have resigned themselves to the ignorance in which they were left at school, by our wretched system of teaching by the book only, will thank Mr. Serviss for the suggestions he has so well carried out."—New York Times.
"For amateur use this book is easily the best treatise on astronomy yet published."—Chicago Herald.
"'Astronomy with an Opera-Glass' fills a long-felt want."—Albany Journal.
"No intelligent reader of this book but will feel that if the author fails to set his public star-gazing the fault is not his, for his style is as winning, as graphic, and as clear as the delightful type in which it is printed."—Providence Journal.