The London Quarterly Review Volume 81 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...to do it. (August 15.)--" II Dramma di San Giorgio," which closes in this number, is a powerful but painful story which gives some interesting descriptions of religious life in Italy. "The Show of Chicago " is a capital description of the World's Fair, which the writer regards as a great success. The palaces of agriculture and mining are marked out for special notice, as showing the incontestable supremacy of the United States over Europe in such matters. Methodist Review" (May-June).--Dr. Kelley says, in his "Editorial Salutatory," that the official call of the Church found him " settled in an attractive pastorate under the eaves of a University, with free access to large libraries, reading-rooms, and varied courses of lectures, affording welcome opportunity through four prospective years for wide reading, congenial study, and mental ripening, feeling no need of more conspicuous place nor craving for more arduous responsibilities amid severe demands." He speaks modestly of himself, and pays graceful tribute to his predecessors. "The rugged, ruddy face and shaggy white head of Dr. Curry, a fine Carlylean subject for a study in colour by a portrait painter, are still so little faded from the Church's consciousness that it would scarcely startle us to see the gaunt form rise, and hear the nervous and incisive voice resume discussion where it was left off. So powerfully alive and pervasive was he, that debaters are not yet entirely solid in the confidence inspired by the assumption that he is no longer here to answer them." Then there was Dr. Whedon, whose monument is found in the twenty-eight volumes of the Quarterly which he edited. President Raymond said, "The touch of his pen...