KEABLE, ROBERT. Drift of pinions. *$2 Dutton
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“There are sixteen of the stories, their scenes laid in various parts of the earth, and in each of them the author invokes a fluttering of unseen pinions at the threshold of the spirit of some one of his characters. Some of the scenes are laid in a remote region of East Africa where the author has spent a number of years as a missionary. When the British government brought a great number of the natives of this region to France as laborers during the war Mr Keable accompanied them as chaplain and in ‘Standing by,’ published last summer, he described his work among them and their reactions to their new surroundings. Some of the stories in this book deal with strange spiritual experience among these simple people, or with those of missionaries among them, and the scenes of others are laid in England, in France before the war, or in other parts of the globe.”—N Y Times
“It is a book which cannot fail to interest Catholic readers, and which, if studied carefully, will give a better insight to the peculiar psychology of the ‘extremely High church’ Anglican than anything that has hitherto appeared in this country. The chapters, ‘In no strange land,’ ‘Our lady’s pain,’ and ‘The acts of the Holy apostles’ are not only the best stories in the book, but they are the only ones which carry with them a sense of actuality.”
+ − Cath World 111:257 My ’20 300w
“The stories vary greatly in quality, the theme being sometimes handled with subtlety and impressiveness, and in others with a simplicity that touches upon crudeness and leaves the reader cold.”
+ − N Y Times 25:86 F 8 ’20 320w
KEELER, HARRIET LOUISE. Our northern autumn. (Handbook ser. on wild flowers) il *$1.75 Scribner 580
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