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_SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE FIRST EDITION._
"Conscientious and painstaking,"--_The Times._
"Obviously a most painstaking work, and in many ways it is very well done."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
"In many ways a serviceable book, and deserves to be widely bought."--_The Speaker._
"A book of far-reaching research and careful industry ... will make this poet clearer, nearer, and dearer to every reader who systematically uses his book."--_Scotsman._
"Dr. Berdoe is a safe and thoughtful guide; his work has evidently been a labour of love, and bears many marks of patient research."--_Echo._
"Students of Browning will find it an invaluable aid."--_Graphic._
"A work suggestive of immense industry."--_Morning Post._
"Erudite and comprehensive."--_Glasgow Herald._
"As a companion to Browning's works the Cyclopædia will be most valuable; it is a laborious, if necessary, piece of work, conscientiously performed, for which present and future readers and students of Browning ought to be really grateful."--_Nottingham Daily Guardian._
"A monumental labour, and fitting company for the great compositions he elucidates."--_Rock._
"It is very well that so patient and ubiquitous a reader as Dr. Berdoe should have written this useful cyclopædia, and cleared the meaning of many a dark and doubtful passage of the poet."--_Black and White._
"It is not too much to say that Dr. Berdoe has earned the gratitude of every reader of Browning, and has materially aided the study of English literature in one of its ripest developments."--_British Weekly._
"Dr. Berdoe's Cyclopædia should make all other handbooks unnecessary."--_Star._
"We are happy to commend the volume to Browning students as the most ambitious and useful in its class yet executed."--_Notes and Queries._
"A most learned and creditable piece of work. Not a difficulty is shirked."--_Vanity Fair._
"A monument of industry and devotion. It has really faced difficulties, it is conveniently arranged, and is well printed and bound."--_Bookman._
"Can be strongly recommended as one for a favourite corner in one's library."--_Whitehall Review._