Two Volumes, 8vo, 32s.
ATHENÆUM, December 5th, 1863.—"This is a work, which in its outspoken and perhaps sometimes boisterous frankness, will shock many admirers of Goethe and Schiller, and of the land they lived in; but which, nevertheless, in despite of the honest, downright blows which Mr. Mayhew distributes so freely with his English cudgel on the members of almost every German class and profession, and on almost every German custom and institution, is full of original thought and observation, and may be studied with profit by both German and English—especially by the German."
BELL'S MESSENGER, January 23rd, 1864.—"Mr. Mayhew's very amusing volumes well deserve careful perusal. The Luther exploration is deeply interesting."
MORNING POST, December 31st, 1863.—"Mr. Mayhew has made up two very interesting volumes."
ILLUSTRATED TIMES, January 16th, 1864.—"Mr. Mayhew has produced the most entertaining and (to a careful reader) instructive book we have seen for a long time—a book that will be greedily gone through and long remembered by everybody that takes it up."
ILLUSTRATED NEWS, January 2nd, 1864.—"To say that Mr. Henry Mayhew has written two exceedingly entertaining volumes will appear, to those who know anything of his writings, equivalent only to saying that he has written two volumes. He has now left English for German life; so far, at least, as Saxony offers a specimen of it, and his descriptions are characterised by the same graphic, uncompromising, and, one is bound to say, moreover, studded, as usual, by gems of wit, humour and anecdote, and illustrated by comparisons or contrasts, drawn from that vast stock of experiences with which his acquaintance with an extensive range of society has supplied him."
GLASGOW MORNING JOURNAL, April 18, 1864.—"Mr. Mayhew's work is excessively interesting, and in many passages excessively amusing, there can be no manner of of doubt, while we have every reason to believe that the picture it presents of German life and manners is in the main strictly and literally true."
LONDON REVIEW, Jan. 16th, 1864.—"We do not know where to look for a better view of the student life of a German university than Mr. Mayhew gives us àpropos of that of Jena."