WORKS OF GILBERT MALCOLM SPROAT. 1868. SEVERAL CRITICAL NOTICES OF "SCENES AND STUDIES OF SAVAGE LIFE." LORD HENRY G. LENNOX, Secretary to the Admiralty. Ordered to be sent to the Admiral in the Pacific, for the use of Naval Officers commanding Her Majesty's ships on that station. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, One of the most complete studies that we have ever met with. Mr. Sproat's reflections are most original and suggestive. BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. Well written, interesting from beginning to end, and full of valuable information. JOHN BULL. A very valuable and opportune production, simply but creditably written, and deserves general appreciation. SPECTATOR. This book is of a kind which we may almost say Englishmen only write; an extraordinarily vivid and faithful picture. ANTHROPOLOGICAL REVIEW. A work so full of descriptive anthropology we never read. PETERMANN'S GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL (GERMAN) TRANSLATION. Abounds in original observations, and in unusually careful, complete and truly sterling special information. THE SCOTSMAN. An interesting and valuable volume. STEWARTRY TIMES. The style is a model of succinct narrative, and the descriptions of natural scenery are perfect gems of word-painting. EDINBURGH DAILY REVIEW. A capital book, one of the most lucid and interesting contributions to ethnology that we know of. Professor STEENSTRUP, Copenhagen. This work places the author in the highest rank of ethnologists. 1870. SEVERAL CRITICAL NOTICES OF "EDUCATION OF THE RURAL POOR; WITH A FULL DISCUSSION CF THE PRINCIPLES and Requirements of REMEDIAL LEGISLATION THEREON." CIVIL SERVICE GAZETTE. A very able work on a complex subject. DAILY TELEGRAPH. Contains much sound and earnest counsel, founded apparently on personal knowledge and observation, with respect to the great problem of reaching and surrounding with proper educative influences the children of our agricultural districts. DUMFRIES STANDARD. We cannot but speak in terms of the highest praise of Mr. Sproat's volume. It is brimful of solid facts and careful reasoning. The author's labour and industry must have been immense, and he has the art of communicating his views clearly and vividly to other minds. The vast range of the volume may be inferred from the following brief sketch. The book is exceedingly opportune. If our M.P.'s would study it carefully they would gain from it much knowledge. EDINBURGH DAILY REVIEW. The whole question which now agitates society is dealt with by Mr. Sproat in this able work with strength of argument, depth of thought, and comprehensive farseeing penetration. EDINBURGH EVENING COURANT. An invaluable book on a subject of present and all-engrossing importance. Mr. Sproat, who is well known as an accurate observer and an able author, has published his book in time to supply both information and ideas to the framers and critics of the Education Bill. He writes with the leisurely forecasting and recapitulation of a gentleman of leisure, rather than with the compression of a painfully practised pen. He also writes with the confidence of an author who knows that his book will be considered by those in place and power, whom it concerns to know what he thinks. |