The Second Article, says Zahn, is "a Compend of the Evangelical history, including even external details."
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
Tried by the standards of the perfect statuesque poems, these pages will indeed seem strange enough; but viewed as a part of the poetic Compend of America, the swift gathering-in, from her wide-spreading, multitudinous, material life, of traits and points and suggestions that belong here and are characteristic, they have their value.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
His services were secured for the undertaking, and the little treatise he has produced shows that the choice of a writer on this subject was most fortunate, as the book is unquestionably the clearest and best-digested Compend of the Science of Foods that has appeared in our language.
"Fungi: Their Nature and Uses"
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke