Besproken in AMT, febr. (2000), p.18:
“…heeft als auteur een Past Master van de befaamde Quatuor Coronati Lodge, dezelfde trouwens die de vroegere Pick and Knight enkele malen heeft herzien.”

Besproken in AQC 112 (1999), 2000, p.254:
“For more than forty years freemasons seeking immediate answers to akward questions about the Craft were able to turn for help to Pick & Knight’s Freemasons’ Pocket Reference Book, the last edition of which (1983) was edited and revised by Bro. Smyth. But the constant demand for additional, and more detailed information has rendered a pocketbook format impracticable, and so Bro. Smyth has produced a larger, more comprehensive and wholly new reference tool but one that is just as accessible as were its forebears. Indeed more so, for it is superbly indexed and there is a series of excellently constructed and highly informative appendices.
The entries in the main text of the book cover history, structure and working of Freemasonry in all its aspects, and vary in length from a few lines to two pages, depending on the importance of the subject.”