"It provides for a 'felt want.'"--Literature.
"The compilation has been made with every care, and the volume could not but enrich any reference library."--Scotsman.
"The range is wide and the translations are wide, and in some cases even scholarly."--Saturday Review.
"Admirably rich in both Italian and French Quotations."--Notes and Queries.
"The accuracy distinguishing previous numbers of this series is also noticeable here."--Bookseller.
"The collection is extensive, and the book will certainly be found very useful."--Liverpool Post.
"Messrs Harbottle and Dalbiac have produced a very useful and interesting book. An enterprise of this kind bears evidence of immense labour; the rendering of the original into English is for the most part accurate and polished and the arrangement and indexing very clear."--Speaker.
"A very useful compilation."--Times of India.
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