Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia
Part 7
'One of those books which it is impossible to read without pleasure. It conveys a sense of repose not unlike that which everybody must have felt out of service time in quiet little village churches. Its editor will receive the hearty thanks of every cultivated reader for these profoundly interesting "Memorials" of two brothers, whose names and labours their universities and church have alike reason to cherish with affection and remember with pride, who have smoothed the path of faith to so many troubled wayfarers, strengthening the weary and confirming the weak.'—STANDARD.
'The book is rich in insight and in contrast of character. It is varied and full of episodes, which few can fail to read with interest; and as exhibiting the sentiments and thoughts of a very influential circle of minds during a quarter of a century, it may be said to have a distinct historical value.'—NONCONFORMIST.
'A charming book, simply and gracefully recording the events of simple and gracious life. Its connection with the beginning of a great movement in the English Church will make it to the thoughtful reader more profoundly suggestive than many biographies crowded and bustling with incident. It is almost the first of a class of books the Christian world just now greatly needs, as showing how the spiritual life was maintained amid the shaking of religious "opinions"; how the life of the soul deepened as the thoughts of the mind broadened; and how, in their union, the two formed a volume of larger and more thoroughly vitalised Christian idea than the English people had witnessed for many days.'—GLASGOW HERALD.
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_BY THE LATE AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HARE_
_RECTOR OF ALTON BARNES_
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_PRESS NOTICES_
"The story is full of varied interest.... Readers who know how to pick and choose will find plenty to entertain them, and not a little which is well worth reading."—_The Times._
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"The reader rarely comes across a passage which does not afford amusement or pleasant entertainment."—_The Scotsman._
"One may safely predict that this will be the most popular book of the season.... We have not space to point out a twentieth part of the passages that might be described as having a special interest. Moreover, though the book is, among other things, a repertory of curious occurrences and amusing anecdotes, it is much more remarkable as a book of sentiment and character, and a story of real life told with remarkable fulness."—_The Guardian._
"A book which will greatly amuse the reader."—_The Spectator._
"Much of what the author has to tell is worthy the telling, and is told with considerable ease and grace, and with a power to interest out of the common. He introduces us to the best of good company, and tells many excellently witty stories.... Whenever he is describing foreign life he is at his best; and nothing can exceed the beautiful pathos of the episodes in which his mother appears. Indeed, he has the gift of tenderness for all good women and brave men."—_Daily Telegraph._
"This autobiography could not fail to be exceptionally interesting. There may be readers who will protest that the more minute details of daily life might have been abridged with advantage, but the aim of the book makes this elaborate treatment of the subject indispensable. The conscientious record of a mental development amid curious surroundings, would make these volumes valuable if not a single name of note were mentioned.... Even more interesting than the stories of people and things that are still remembered are the glimpses of a past which is quickly fading out of recollection."—_The Standard._
"The book is unexceptionable on the score of taste.... It is an agreeable miscellany into which one may dip at random with the certainty of landing something entertaining, rather than an autobiography of the ordinary kind. The concluding chapter is full of a deep and tender pathos."—_The Manchester Guardian._
"Mr. Hare's style is graceful and felicitous, and his life-history was well worth writing. The volumes simply teem with good things, and in a single article we can but skim the surface of the riches they contain. A word must also be said of the beauty and delicacy of the illustrations. Few living men dare brave criticism by giving us the story of their lives and promising more. But Mr. Hare is quite justified. He has produced a fascinating work, in some parts strange as any romance, and his reminiscences of great men are agreeable and interesting."—_Birmingham Gazette._
"An inexhaustible storehouse of anecdote."—_South-Western News._
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"The book has throughout a strong human interest. It contains a great many anecdotes, and in our opinion, at all events, deserves to take rank among notable biographical works."—_Westminster Gazette._
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"This is assuredly a book to read."—_Freeman._
"Singularly interesting is this autobiography.... Altogether it is a notable book, and may well be recommended to those who are interested in the intellectual life of our time."—_New York Herald._
"Mr. Hare's excellence, apart from felicity of style and directness of method, has ever been conspicuous by the excellence that comes of wide knowledge of his subject, and a keenly sympathetic nature. Alive as he has ever been to responsive emotion, he possesses also a bright humour that seizes upon the discrepancies, the nuances and quaintnesses of whatever comes within the range of his eye and pen. These qualities have made for Mr. Hare a circle of admirers who, while they have sought in his pages no very thrilling passages, have felt steadily the growth of a liking given to an old friend who is always kindly and oftentimes amusing.... Mr. Hare dwells with a rare and touching love upon his mother, and these passages are amongst the most appealing in the book."—_Philadelphia Courier._
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"It is rarely that an autobiography is planned on so ample a scale, and yet, to tell the truth, there are singularly few of these pages which one really cares to skip."—_Good Words._
"A sad history of Mr. Hare's childhood and boyhood this is for the most part, but there were bursts of sunshine in Augustus Hare's life—sunshine shed around him by the kindly, noble-minded lady who is called mother all through these volumes, and for whom his reverence and gratitude deepened with years."—_Clifton Society._
"The 'Story of My Life' is no commonplace autobiography, and plunge in where you may, there is something to interest and attract."—_The Sketch._
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