| + | Reader. 6: 242. Ag. ‘05. 350w. |
“The book contains one of the best trial scenes in recent fiction.”
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 760. Je. ‘05. 60w. |
Dilke, Lady Amelia Frances Strong. Book of the spiritual life, with a memoir of the author by the Rt. Rev. Sir Charles W. Dilke. [*]$3. Dutton.
The larger part of this volume is taken up with the memoirs of Lady Dilke by her second husband. “It shows her as a girl, as an art student, as the wife of Mark Pattison, and the correspondent of many eminent persons, as an art critic, and as the cultured and kind friend of young people and of all movements for the amelioration of human life. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... is a series of Lady Dilke’s mature reflections on the problems of existence and our duty as sojourners here.”—Lond. Times.
“Not even her work, however, remarkable as it was, and in so many spheres of art and thought, will erect in the future such a monument to Lady Dilke as that raised to her by her husband in the brief memoir which precedes ‘The book of the spiritual life.’”
| + + + | Acad. 68: 774. Jl. 29, ‘05. 2300w. |
“Sir Charles Dilke, in writing the memoir, has accomplished his difficult task with tact and dignity.”
| + + | Ath. 1905, 1: 679. Je. 3. 3150w. | |
| * | + | Critic. 47: 435. N. ‘05. 680w. |
“The little memoir ... is a model of what such work should be—informing, sympathetic, and restrained. ‘The book of the spiritual life’ ... gives evidence of wide reading and a sympathetic outlook.”