* Benson, Arthur C. [Altar fire.] **$1.50. Putnam.
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Wholly reflective “this volume contains, in the form of a friend’s diary, Mr. Benson’s conclusions upon many things, from the doctrine of the atonement to the Browning letters, but chiefly on the processes of personal religious life.” (Ind.)
“One feels there is a message, but hardly formed and loosely articulated and lacking the virile note. One cannot but wish the book a larger reading than its somber monotony will invite.”
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“To his usual characteristics, with which the public is well acquainted by this time, his new volumes add a rather unexpected extension of scope.”
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| N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
“This generation can hardly have too many books of this temper put into its hands.”
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| + + | R. of Rs. 36: 759. D. ’07. 120w. |