“The annotations are very thorough. The study of the matter and style is exhaustive.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 384. N. 9, ‘05. 1880w. |
“It will ever hold its place, as one of the triumphs of American scholarship in editing English classics, alongside such works as those of Furness and Child. These latter are bigger and on bigger subjects, but they are not better done.” Cameron Mann.
| + + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 757. N. 11, ‘05. 2470w. |
“Has done his work as biographer and editor con amore.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 577. N. 4, ‘05. 50w. |
[*] “Every help to the reader’s eye and mind for the appreciation of Herbert will be found in these volumes, so great is the labor of love which Professor Palmer, with his own fine intelligence and training, has wrought for the most lovable and the most human of our religious poets.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 827. D. 2, ‘05. 1480w. |
[*] Herford, Brooke. Eutychus and his relations. [*]70c. Am. Unitar.
Under this profound title appear the witty old-time pulpit and pew papers written from a layman’s point of view, which were first published anonymously during the early years of their author’s ministry, 1860-1861. They include quaintly humorous disquisitions upon: A ‘lay’ view of sleeping in church; Some people who always come late; Praising God by proxy; Pews; A country tea party; Over-much discourse; Unsocial worship; Parsonic acid, and other kindred subjects.