“Father Benson’s language comes as near as language can to making his readers realize by analogy spiritual experiences which are incapable of being translated into the words and phrases of a material world.”
| + | Spec. 98: 1038. Je. 29, ’07. 380w. |
Benson, Rev. Robert Hugh. Papers of a pariah. **$1.25. Longmans.
7–14565.
“The ‘Pariah’ is an actor, who has been educated however at Rugby and Oxford, and the ‘papers’ reveal the mental process by which he finally arrived at the Catholic faith.” (Acad.) “Their point of view is of one who regards the Catholic church from without not from within, though with a favourable eye.”
“If only he could bestow his style, and humaneness, and clearness of exposition on converts we would wish him many of them as the result of this brilliant little book.”
| + | Acad. 72: 314. Mr. 30, ’07. 140w. |
“The tenor of the reflections witnesses to a deeply religious nature and the aesthetic temperament, reminding one of the books of Huysmans, though displaying more of the religious and less of the aesthetic than did that strange Frenchman.”
| + | Cath. World. 85: 542. Jl. ’07. 780w. |