“Is a book in which the scholar may find more to his purpose than the reader who, without any very keen appetite for detailed history and unimportant biographical detail, reads for pleasure and for general information.” Horatio S. Krans.
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“It is with a very sure hand, with all the sobriety of a scholar, albeit not untinged with the agreeable glow of an admirer, that Mr. Gardner writes of Alfonso I. ... and Ludovico Ariosto.”
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Gardner, Percy. Growth of Christianity. $1.75. Macmillan.
“The theme of the present volume, which is in the form of ten popular lectures, is the relations of Christianity with the various forms of culture and thought with which it has come into contact. The germ of Christianity is found in the Lord’s prayer, and specifically in the petition, ‘Thy will be done,’ and its essential spirit is defined accordingly as a passionate devotion to the will of God as operative in the world.”—Nation.
“No one can read Professor Gardner’s book without respect. It is earnest and lucid, and bears witness of the profound scholarship of its author.”
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“His new book is an able and striking interpretation of the history of the church, from a somewhat unusual point of view.”