* 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.”

+ −Ind. 63: 1117. N. 7, ’07. 340w.

“To his usual characteristics, with which the public is well acquainted by this time, his new volumes add a rather unexpected extension of scope.”

+Ind. 63: 1229. N. 21, ’07. 310w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“This generation can hardly have too many books of this temper put into its hands.”

+Outlook. 87: 767. D. 7, ’07. 560w.
+ +R. of Rs. 36: 759. D. ’07. 120w.