+ Ind. 61: 755. S. 27, ’06. 100w.
“No English reader, who thinks of visiting Tuscany or taking up residence there, should fail to read his book.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 443. Jl. 7, ’06. 560w. + Putnam’s. 1: 378. D. ’06. 110w.
Carmichael, Montgomery, ed. Life of John William Walshe as written by his son Philip Regidius Walshe. *$1.50. Dutton.
“John Walshe, says his son, was a splendid scholar and a devoted servant of God. Of his scholarship he has left as a monument many volumes of material relating chiefly to St. Francis of Assisi; of his devotion to God, impressive evidence is given in this narrative of his quest to know God, a quest that began in England in his earliest youth and found its consummation in distant Italy, whither he had fled from his merchant father’s counting-room, and where he entered upon a life of study, love and religion that was to lead him to the purest and most profound mysticism. The phrase a nineteenth-century mystic sounds strange indeed, but such was John Walshe, and a mystic whose influence, as diffused by his son’s filial zeal, must touch with uplifting power all who read the story of his painful pilgrimage.”—Outlook.
“A most unusual, fine, eloquent, sincere, even inspired piece of writing.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 537. S. 1, ’06. 1410w.
“It is not a great biography, indeed, it has sundry obvious defects from a purely literary standpoint. But whatever of blemish it may seem to us to hold is lost from sight in contemplation of the saintly figure it reveals.”