“Unfortunately, several of the articles are egregiously one-sided; some others are conspicuously incompetent, and a few display such violations of a sane and critical spirit that we could hardly believe our eyes when we read them.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 1150. My. 16, ’07. 1030w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Considered as an achievement of scholarship alone, it will command attention.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 765. My. 11, ’07. 1410w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“In spite of all criticism ... [it] remains a very notable contribution to science and a remarkable example of American enterprise.”
| + + − | Lond. Times. 6: 267. S. 6, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“Though this important work has chief value and significance for Catholics, it contains a great deal of interest to every intelligent man, and, so far as it is used by non-Catholics, must contribute to the correcting of erroneous opinions and the breaking down of existing prejudices.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 566. Je. 20, ’07. 1830w. (Review of v. 1.) |
“It will be generally admitted that the work is the best for themselves that English-speaking Catholics have yet published, and the most popular and the most interesting one they have ever presented to the non-Catholic world.” Henry A. Brann.