Lawrence, C. E. Pilgrimage. †$1.50. Dutton.
“Peruel, an angel of the army of the lost, seeks reentrance into heaven. Being given a chance, through the influence of Azrael, he becomes incarnate as a foundling baby in a country called Argovie. There he grows up as Luke, swineherd to the monastery of St. Donstan, where the situation between some of the friars vividly recalls Browning’s ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister.’ The entire book is devoted to Luke’s spiritual struggles, his persecution by bigoted monks, by outlaws, and men at arms.... He ends, triumphant, a leper in a lazar house.”—Nation.
“Mr. Lawrence has no quaint humour, no impassioned sincerity, no superb poetry, that can do justice to such an idea. His book is little more than pleasantly sentimental; there is no backbone of earnest or new thought.”
| − | Acad. 72: 73. Je. 15, ’07. 280w. |
“His present work, we fear, is too shadowy; too remote from experience, and too ethereal.”
| − | Ath. 1907, 1: 786. Je. 29. 170w. | |
| Ind. 63: 762. S. 26, ’07. 120w. | ||
| Nation. 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w. |
“The story is written with unusual delicacy of touch and with a knowledge of human nature that considering the spiritual quality of the tale, is somewhat surprising.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 230w. | |
| Sat. R. 104: 117. Jl. 27, ’07. 180w. |
Lawrence, Sir Thomas. Sir Thomas Lawrence’s letter-bag; ed. by G. S. Layard. *$4. Longmans.