"... Never fails to amuse and interest, and it is one of the pleasantest features of the book that one may open it at a venture and be sure of finding something original and readable." _HERALD AND PRESBYTER_, Cincinnati, Ohio: "His manner of telling the story of his varied observations and experiences, with his reflections accompanying, is so easy and familiar, as to lend his pages a fascination which renders it almost impossible to lay down the book until it is read to the end." _NEW YORK LEDGER_: "It is quite out of the usual method of books of travel, and will be relished all the more by those who enjoy bits of quiet humor and piquant sketches of men and things on a yachting journey." _NEW YORK STAR_: "Not too profound for entertainment, and yet pleasantly suggestive. A volume of clever sayings." _CHRISTIAN SECRETARY_, Hartford, Conn.: "It is a book well worth reading,... full of thought." _PRESBYTERIAN JOURNAL_, Philadelphia: "A racy, original, thoughtful book. On the slight thread of sea-voyaging it hangs the terse thoughts of an original mind on many subjects. The style is so spicy that one reads with interest even when not approving." _CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER_, New York: "No one can spend an hour or two in Mr. Bowles' gallery of graphic pen-pictures without being so deeply impressed with their originality of conception and lively, spicy expression, as to talk about them to others." VI. The Highways of Literature. _NATIONAL BAPTIST_, Phila.: "A book full of wisdom; exceedingly bright and practical." _PACIFIC CHURCHMAN_, San Francisco: "The best answer we have seen to the common and most puzzling question, 'What shall I read?' Scholarly and beautiful." _DANBURY NEWS_: "Its hints, rules, and directions for reading are, just now, what thousands of people are needing." _CHRISTIAN WITNESS_, Newmarket, N.H.: "Clear, terse, elegant in style. A boon to young students, a pleasure for scholars." _NEW YORK HERALD_: "Mr. David Pryde, the author of 'Highways of Literature; or, What to Read, and How to Read,' is an erudite Scotchman who has taught with much success in Edinburgh. His hints on the best books and the best method of mastering them are valuable, and likely to prove of great practical use." _NEW YORK TABLET_: "This is a most useful and interesting work. It consists of papers in which the author offers rules by which the reader may discover the best books, and be enabled to study them properly." VII. Colin Clout's Calendar. _LEEDS MERCURY_, England: "The best specimens of popular scientific expositions that we have ever had the good fortune to fall in with." _NEW YORK NATION_: "The charm of such books is not a little heightened when, as in this case, a few touches of local history, of customs, words, and places are added." _AMERICAN REFORMER_, New York: