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“Mr. Benson, with extraordinary skill, has caught the butterfly, and yet produced the impression upon our minds that it is still free and alive, still floating in the air that gave it being.”
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“This little volume is the best summary of Pater’s life and work we have yet seen.”
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“With a fine and delicate reserve he refuses to do more than to suggest how and in what spirit we should approach so lovable, so reticent, so shy a man. Just this, so it seems to us, is the chief value of his work.”
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Benson, Edward Frederic. [Angel of pain.] †$1.50. Lippincott.
The hero of this new tale by the author of “Dodo” is a fine young Englishman, inheriting wealth and strength, but “a man with an iron hand who did not always remember to put on the velvet glove.” He proceeds in much too business-like a manner with his courtship, but is accepted by Madge Ellington chiefly through her ambitious mother’s persuasion. On the eve of the marriage, Madge finds that she loves a poor painter, and so begins a series of tragic happenings which lend hurried action to the story. There is a character worthy a Maeterlinck, Tom Merivale, who can give and receive messages from bird and beast.