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"Professor Plumptre's new volume will certainly add to his reputation. It is worthy to be put on the same shelf with Heber and his own favourite Keble,"—Westminster Review.

"The present volume, of great outward and visible elegance, and of great inward and intellectual grace, offers abundant evidence of the author's poetical gifts."—Illustrated Landon News.

"The exceedingly able article in the Contemporary Review for July, 1866, by the same author, on Friar Bacon, should be read as a commentary and introduction to this poem (Master and Scholar). With exquisite delicacy Mr. Plumptre pours forth once more the pitiful wail of poor Eloisa's broken heart over the idol of her passion, and weaves the traditions of the Magdalen into a charming poem."—British Quarterly Review.

"They will stand not unworthily by the side of those produced by Professor Plumptre's most eminent predecessors. In them he displays, with rare force and constant readiness, all the resources of a ripe scholar, a keen critic, and an eloquent writer."—Athenæum.

"A learned, thoughtful, and candid book, able in a literary sense, catholic in tone and spirit, full of the minute study and special knowledge of a life devoted to divinity."—Spectator.

"We have seen few books which will serve more efficiently to give life and body to ordinary people's conceptions of biblical characters, events, and narratives."—Literary Churchman.

"An admirable specimen of what biblical exegesis ought to be. There is many a man who thinks himself pretty well acquainted with the Bible to whom the book will be a revelation of ignorance for which he was little prepared, and an incentive to carry on studies which may yield abundant and precious results."—Literary World.