“This book is not obtrusively didactic. Few or none would suspect that they are being taught, but at the close of every chapter there lingers in the mind some mighty lesson.... No person can read a single page without being touched to finer issues. There is much that is very beautiful, much that is very pathetic, but more that must stir every right-minded man or woman to good works and to prayer.”
Review of the Churches.
“We offer a hearty welcome to this book.... It is the work of one whose experience has been long, and knowledge intimate, and whose eye is as keen as his heart is kind. It should correct some current misapprehensions, and provoke many a reader to good works.... It is interesting from the first page to the last.”—Record.
“No attempt is made to deepen the shadows in these pictures of real life, and we are not less glad to find that a book so wholesome and manly, is not weakened by the intrusion of sickly sentiment or highly-coloured rhetoric.”
The Speaker.
“The Riverside Visitor has the rare faculty of a real sympathy; he enters into the trials and troubles of the poor as though he were one of them, and gives us a very living and true picture of the struggling multitudes, in whose well-being he is so keenly interested.”—Modern Church.
