“An elegant edition of an old devotional manual by a clergyman who was a rector in Exeter at the beginning of the last century. It seems to contain a great deal of valuable truth as to the sources of evil thoughts and the mode in which they may be expressed.”—English Independent.
“The book is worthy of a careful perusal, and is one which once known is likely to be recurred to again and again, a characteristic not always to be met within works of our own day.”—Record.
“Messrs. Rivington have done all that publishers could do to give strengthening matter a cheerful form.”—Church Review.
THE ENGLISH POEMS OF GEORGE HERBERT, together with his Collection of Proverbs, entitled Jacula Prudentum.
“This beautiful little volume will be found specially convenient as a pocket manual. The ‘Jacula Prudentum’ or proverbs, deserve to be more widely known than they are at present. In many copies of George Herbert’s writings these quaint sayings have been unfortunately omitted.”—Rock.
“George Herbert is too much a household name to require any introduction. It will be sufficient to say that Messrs. Rivington have published a most compact and convenient edition of the poems and proverbs of this illustrious English divine.”—English Churchman.
“An exceedingly pretty edition, the most attractive form we have yet seen from this delightful author, as a gift-book.”—Union Review.
“A very beautiful edition of the quaint old English bard. All lovers of the ‘Holy’ Herbert will be grateful to Messrs. Rivington for the care and pains they have bestowed in supplying them with this and withal convenient copy of poems so well known and so deservedly prized.”—London Quarterly Review.
“A very tasteful little book, and will doubtless be acceptable to many.”—Record.
“We commend this little book heartily to our readers. It contains Herbert’s English poems and the ‘Jacula Prudentum,’ in a very neat volume which does much credit to the publishers; it will, we hope, meet with extensive circulation as a choice gift-book at a moderate price.”—Christian Observer.