"It is delightful to receive such a pretty book.... It depicts a striking and interesting character and phase of life."--_British Weekly._ "A readable and interesting life-story."--_Literary World._ "The whole volume is very amusing reading."--_St. Martin's-le-Grand._ "This is in every way a charming book. Its get-up is tastefully quaint, and the subject matter fresh and interesting."--_Scottish Notes and Queries._ "A delightful little volume.... A book of no ordinary interest."--_Presbyterian._ "The picture of a man of remarkable vigour and individuality of character."--_Scotsman._ "A really readable little book, which should find a considerably wider public than that of the Shetland Islands."--_Glasgow Herald._ "Mill was a man of mark in his day, and his life-story is simply and worthily told in this little volume."--_Aberdeen Free Press._ "Glimpses of old-world life in these remote islands."--_Scottish Pictorial._ "A perspicuous and complete sketch."--_Dundee Advertiser._ "A little volume which is full of charm and interest."--_John O'Groat Journal._ "The work is one of high literary ability, is of more than ordinary value for the light it throws on the religious and moral condition of the times it covers, and is specially interesting from the uniqueness of the character of Mr. Mill."--_North British Daily Mail._ "A curious and interesting picture of old Shetland life."--_Elgin Courant._ "Mr. Mill's idiosyncrasies furnish an unfailing source of amusement."--_United Presbyterian Magazine._ "The whole work is excellent, and, we cannot doubt, will be welcomed in a wider area than the northern islands in which Mr. Mill spent his life."--_Banffshire Journal._ "A very interesting biography, which has already and deservedly attracted a good deal of attention."--_Northern Ensign._ "We commend the perusal of the volume to all those in any way interested in Scotland and her past."--_Liverpool Daily Post._ "We can recommend the book as interesting to many more than Shetland readers."--_Life and Work._ "One can see what a romance Stevenson could have constructed out of Mill's diary, which seems incredibly old-fashioned and primitive."--_Sketch._ "A most interesting and readable volume, containing many quaint and curious pictures of Shetland life and manners during last century."--_Orkney Herald._ "Mr. Willcock has done well to provide this record of a man so memorable."--_United Presbyterian Record._ "There is a great deal that is interesting in this book.... Mr. Willcock has done his work well, and we feel indebted to him for making us acquainted with a character which ought not to be forgotten."--_Free Church Monthly._ "Mr. Mill stands out as quite a remarkable man. Though the volume will have a special interest to the people of the Shetland Isles, it will be read with much interest on the mainland."--_Perthshire Advertiser._