The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (December 1846) review: "The book of the Messrs. Myers is divided into two parts, the one containing the questions, the other the answers, and is not arranged in the usual form of placing the latter beneath the former, as it was the intention of the learned authors to furnish a work where the student will have to employ diligence and care in order to make a proper and profitable use thereof. Those who have superintended the education of young people, must have been often struck with the mortifying conviction that the recitations, though, to all appearance, satisfactory, were so only through a species of fraud, which the scholars practised upon the teachers; in other words, the lessons had not been well studied, and the apparent readiness in the answers was only owing to the adroit management of the text-books, which completely deceived the instructor, who could not always watch this method of appearing better informed than the scholars actually were. Every method, therefore, which tends to compel the learner to make himself familiar with his subject, deserves the serious consideration of the schoolman; and especially is this the case in reference to Jewish works of a practical kind, of which sadly few are yet in circulation. That the book in question has been well executed, will appear from the following testimonials in its favour, and it will therefore not be necessary for us to go at length into its merits".

“A great deal of information is conveyed in this work.”—Rev. Dr. Adler.