"Simple narratives of our people, our preachers, and the lights and shadows of our rural religious life"—is the author's modest description of his work. But this gives no hint of the book's peculiar charm. Those who love birds and stretches of green meadow, glimpses of lordly and high hills, the soil and the sincere life lived on it, will find here a genuine delight.
Above all is the interest in the preachers themselves. "There were giants in those days, and for the most part our ministers were good and noble men. Of their goodness and sincerity these annals bear witness!"
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
Christine
By ALICE CHOLMONDELEY
Cloth, 12mo., $1.25
"A book which is true in essentials—so real that one is tempted to doubt whether it is fiction at all—doubly welcome and doubly important.... It would be difficult indeed to find a book in which the state of mind of the German people is pictured so cleverly, with so much understanding and convincing detail.... Intelligent, generous, sweet-natured, broadminded, quick to see and to appreciate all that is beautiful either in nature or in art, rejoicing humbly over her own great gift, endowed with a keen sense of humour, Christine's is a thoroughly wholesome and lovable character. But charming as Christine's personality and her literary style both are, the main value of the book lies in its admirably lucid analysis of the German mind."—New York Times.