“Dr. Raymond is one of the most just and pregnant critics, as well as one of the most genuine poets, that America has produced.... His verse generally, and his prose frequently, is a solid pack of epigrams; and hundreds of the epigrams are vigorous, fresh, telling, worth collecting and cataloguing.... Probably from no other American but Emerson could a collection at all comparable be made. Many of the phrases are profound paradox.... Others are as hard-headed as La Rochefoucauld.... Some are plain common sense, set in an audacious figure, or a vigorous turn of phrase.... But few or none of them are trivial.... As an æsthetic critic, Professor Raymond is, by training and temperament, remarkably versatile and catholic. He is almost or quite equally interested in architecture, painting, sculpture, music, poetry.... Each is as definitely placed in his system as the several instruments in a great orchestra.... If Dr. Raymond had been born in France, England, or Germany, he would, no doubt, have enjoyed a wider vogue. But it is just as well that he was none of these; for the, as yet, æsthetically immature New World has sore need of him.”—_Revue Internationale_, Paris. “We risk little in foretelling a day when all considerable libraries, private as well as public, will be deemed quite incomplete if lacking these twin volumes. Years after the thinker has paid the debt to nature due, his thoughts will rouse action and emotion in the hearts and minds of generations now unborn.”—_Worcester_ (Mass.) _Gazette_. “This Poet’s Cabinet is the best thing of its class—that confined to the works of one author—upon which our eyes have fallen, either by chance or purpose. We can’t help wishing that we had a whole book-shelf of such volumes in our own private library.”—_Columbus_, (O.) _Journal_. “The number and variety of the subjects are almost overwhelming, and the searcher for advanced or new thought as expressed by this particular philosopher has no difficulty in coming almost immediately upon something that may strike his fancy or aid him in his perplexities. To the student of poetry and the higher forms of literature ... the volume will be of distinct aid.”—_Utica_ (N. Y.) _Observer_. “Dr. Miller’s task in selecting representative extracts from Professor Raymond’s works has not been a light one, for there has been no chaff among the wheat, and there was an ever present temptation to add bulk to the book through freedom in compilation. He thought best, however, to eliminate all but the features which revealed the rare rich soul and personality of the poet, and each quotation is a gem.”—_Albany_ (N. Y.) _Times-Union_.