From the Law Journal.

"It is unnecessary for us on this occasion to repeat the eulogy which six years ago (in 1868) we bestowed, not without just reason, on the Commentaries as they then appeared. It has been remarked that Stephen's Commentaries enjoy the special merit of being an educational work, not merely a legal textbook. Their scope is so wide that every man, no matter what his position, profession, trade or employment, can scarcely fail to find in them matter of special interest to himself, besides the vast fund of general information upon which every Englishman of intelligence may draw with advantage."

From the Solicitors' Journal.

"A Work which has reached a Seventh Edition needs no other testimony to its usefulness. And when a law book of the size and costliness of these Commentaries' passes through many editions, it must be taken as established that it supplies a need felt in all branches of the profession, and probably to some extent, also, outside the profession. It is difficult indeed to name a law book of more general utility than the one before us. It is (as regards the greater part) not too technical for the lay reader, and not too full of detail for the law student, while it is an accurate and (considering its design) a singularly complete guide to the practitioner. This result is due in no small degree to the mode in which the successive editions have been revised, the alterations in the law being concisely embodied, and carefully interwoven with the previous material, forming a refreshing contrast to the lamentable spectacle presented by certain works into which successive learned editors have pitchforked headnotes of cases, thereby rendering each edition more unconnected and confusing than its predecessor. As the result of our examination we may say that the new law has, in general, been accurately and tersely stated, and its relation to the old law carefully pointed out."

From the Law Times. "We have in this Work an old and valued friend. For years we have had the last, the Sixth Edition, upon our shelves, and we can state as a fact that when our text books on particular branches of the Law have failed us, we have always found that Stephen's Commentaries have supplied us with the key to what we sought, if not the actual thing we required. We think that these Commentaries establish one important proposition, that to be of thorough practical utility a treatise on English Law cannot be reduced within a small compass. The subject is one which must be dealt with comprehensively, and an abridgment, except merely for the purposes of elementary study, is a decided blunder.

"Of the scope of the Commentaries we need say nothing. To all who profess acquaintance with the English Law their plan and execution must be thoroughly familiar. The learned Author has made one conspicuous alteration, confining 'Civil Injuries' within the compass of one volume, and commencing the last volume with Crimes,' and in that volume he has placed a Table of Statutes. In every respect the Work is improved, and the present writer can say, from practical experience, that for the Student and the Practitioner there is no better Work published than 'Stephen's Commentaries.""

From the Law Examination Journal. "What Bacon's works are to philosophy, Blackstone's Commentaries and Stephen's Commentaries founded on Blackstone, are to the study of English Law. For a general survey of the entire field of English Law, or, at least, for a comparative survey of different branches of law, Stephen's Commentaries are unrivalled; and we may observe that these Commentaries should not be used merely as a book of reference, they should be carefully studied."