"Of the many noble atlases prepared by Mr Johnston and published by Messrs Blackwood & Sons, this Royal Atlas will be the most useful to the public, and will deserve to be the most popular."–Athenæum.
"We know no series of maps which we can more warmly recommend. The accuracy, wherever we have attempted to put it to the test, is really astonishing."–Saturday Review.
"The culmination of all attempts to depict the face of the world appears in the Royal Atlas, than which it is impossible to conceive anything more perfect."–Monday Herald.
"This is, beyond question, the most splendid and luxurious, as well as the most useful and complete, of all existing atlases."–Guardian.
"There has not, we believe, been produced for general public use a body of maps equal in beauty and completeness to the Royal Atlas just issued by Mr A. K. Johnston."–Examiner.
"An almost daily reference to, and comparison of it with others, since the publication of the first part some two years ago until now, enables us to say, without the slightest hesitation, that this is by far the most complete and authentic atlas that has yet been issued."–Scotsman.
"Beyond doubt the greatest geographical work of our time."–Museum.
INDEX GEOGRAPHICUS:
Being an Index to nearly One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Names Of Places, &c.; with their Latitudes and Longitudes as given in Keith Johnston's 'Royal Atlas;' together with the Countries and Subdivisions of the Countries in which they are situated. In 1 vol. large 8vo., 21s.
A NEW MAP OF EUROPE.