mention the American Citizen, a Lexington weekly, the Cincinnati Commercial, the Lexington Herald, the Daily Transcript, Lexington, Ky., the Indianapolis World, Indiana, the Cleveland Gazette, Ohio, The Courant, Louisville, Ky., The Ivy, Baltimore, Md., American Catholic Tribune, etc.
Mrs. A. E. Johnson said of her:
She has an excellent talent for comparing, explaining, expounding and criticising, and has made no small stir among the city officials and others for their unjust discriminations against worthy citizens.
Mrs. I. Garland Penn says of her:
Miss Britton claims to be neither a poet nor a fiction writer, but she is a prolific writer on many subjects of a solid, practical, forcible character. Teaching is her forte, and she prefers to perfect herself in both the science and art of the profession. As a teacher she is greatly respected and esteemed.
A friend in the Indianapolis World speaks of her in the following complimentary manner:
The city (Lexington, Ky.) officials are building the colored people a school-house on the corner of Fourth and Campbell streets, and Miss Mary E. Britton, the "Meb" of our literature, smiles even more pleasantly than usual. She has done a great deal to educate the youth here under the most vexing circumstances, and none can appreciate or rejoice more in better facilities than she.
Mr. I. Garland Penn also speaks of her as follows:
Miss Britton is a specialist. Recognizing the fact that one cannot satisfactorily take in the whole field, she wisely concludes to pursue and perfect herself in such branches of it as she feels confident are hers by adaptation. Such a course cannot fail to give success to the one pursuing it.
