Reviewed by Preserved Smith
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“This book introduces the reader not only to many interesting visitors from the world beyond mortal ken but to a very interesting human being as well. For the author’s own sake, it is well worth reading.” Cornelia Van Pelt
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TYRRELL, GEORGE. Letters *$7 Dutton
(Eng ed 21–197)
“‘George Tyrrell’s letters,’ selected and edited by Miss M. D. Petre, author of the ‘Life of George Tyrrell,’ will bring the opportunity of a more familiar acquaintance to the many Americans who have been interested in the well-known Irishman’s life and work. Modernism claimed great sacrifices and the labor of some years; but it was not all his life. And in this selection of letters it has been the intention to show him in his dealings with widely moral and undenominationally spiritual issues, to show him also in his lighter moments, when he spoke true words in jest, or hid his meaning under a veil of persiflage.”—Springf’d Republican
“So long as there are Christians of even a simple type, Tyrrell will be read, because of his instinct for the things of Christ. His cruel ironies and his flaming resentments, his rash speculations and his tottering syntheses may all be buried in his grave.”
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