“From its very nature it can hardly be said to make interesting reading; but it will be found invaluable as a manual.”
+ Acad. 69: 1258. D. 2, ’05. 80w.
“The volume shows wide reading and great industry in bringing so many names together. Yet the chapter on auxiliary or subsidiary sciences might have been retrenched with advantage, and the illustrations of comparative sciences are too many. The value of the book will be found to consist in its full bibliography, which is made available by a copious index.” Henry Preserved Smith.
+ + – Am. J. Theol. 10: 701. O. ’06. 920w.
“A valuable handbook of great breadth of learning, written in an admirable spirit. It is a book for which we are profoundly thankful, notwithstanding the fact that it has some defects which are incidental to the manner of its composition.” George A. Barton.
+ + – Bib. World. 28: 285. O. ’06. 890w.
“It must be admitted that so great a task, beyond the first-hand knowledge of any one man, is on the whole well done.”
+ Ind. 59: 1542. D. 28, ’05. 230w.
“Whoever wishes to know ‘all about’ comparative religion at its present stage will find cyclopaedic information here in sufficient fullness, not merely in the text but also in appended charts, and all carefully indexed for ready reference.”