“Those who love to extract information from Blue Books will revel in this volume of strange facts.... It would be a needless task to expend words of praise upon this fair-minded volume, prepared by one of the subtlest intellects of our time.”—Review of Reviews.
“‘Stolen Waters’ has to be welcomed as a monument of disinterested advocacy.... Mr. Healy’s vivid, yet archaic, style; at all manner of odd points the unusual word flashes out at you, and relieves the gloom of technical narration.”—Truth.
“Of the utmost value.... Mr. Healy is to be congratulated on the manner in which he has fulfilled this work.”—Tablet.
“A notable volume, ‘Stolen Waters.’ The book, which was noticed at length in the leader columns of this paper, is a monument of patient research.”—Manchester Guardian.
“A series of remarkable investigations.... The book has every appearance of minute accuracy in detail, and gives proof of a remarkable skill in marshalling evidence. We shall be surprised if his conclusions are successfully challenged.”—Glasgow Herald.
“It is a tribute to the skill of Mr. Healy that he has made so interesting a narrative out of a record of legal chicanery. As told by him, the history of the title in the seventeenth century is an amazing story of fraud in high places.”—Scotsman.
“Written in the pungent style of which Mr. Healy is so great a master, the book is eminently readable throughout.... This erudite and eloquent volume.”—Dundee Advertiser.
“Mr. Healy contributes to Irish literature a valuable volume.”—Sheffield Independent.
“Elaborate in its thorough investigation of the historical side.... Mr. Healy’s book is a formidable impeachment of one more chapter in the horrid story of English mis-government in Ireland.”—Yorkshire Observer.
“Mr. Healy has written a very elaborate treatise.... Is, indeed, a most scholarly essay, the result of exhaustive research.”—Yorkshire Post.