Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury.—“The essays and papers in his Honour’s book are in every way worthy of the bright humour, vivacity and literary skill we are wont to associate with the name of the Admirable Crichton of the County Court Bench.”
The Spectator.—“Judge Parry deals with various subjects, social, literary and other, and has something worth hearing to say about all of them.”
Daily Telegraph.—“Whether his themes are grave or gay the mood in which he treats them, lively or severe, Judge Parry is invariably interesting, and his volume should be widely read.”
Morning Post.—“For to pay the last and best compliment, clubability of style is a thing as pleasant as it is rare.”
Yorkshire Post.—“But humour is by no means the only rare quality in these ‘Judgments.’ In the pure Lamb and Stevenson sense they are literature.”
Evening Standard and St. James’s.—“It goes without saying that this collection of essays is witty, full of amusing anecdotes, and besides that, is written with the literary sense which always dignifies the work of his Honour.”
Law Magazine.—“All the essays are worth reading, but the most important are connected with the County Court.”
Boston Evening Transcript.—“His latest book is as witty and wise as any of its predecessors, and may be heartily commended without any reserve to all who enjoy an essayist of the Lamb School.” New York Herald.—“The definite qualities of jurisprudence have not so often found so agreeable an exponent as the author of these graceful, good natured essays.”