Floating Fancies among the Weird and the OccultHolmes, Clara H.
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Floating Fancies among the Weird and the Occult
Holmes, Clara H.
American fiction -- 19th century; Paranormal fiction; Short stories, American
The circulation of this book will probably depend upon the number of men
and women who are in search of a religion; not of a new religion, but of
the oldest religion, made applicable and applied to personal, social and
political life. The second part of the book is prefaced by a letter of
Tolstoy’s to the author, endorsing his view of life.
The allegories which form the first part show how in ordinary life, as
Olive Schreiner puts it, greatness is to take the common things of life
and to walk truly among them; happiness is a great love and much
serving; holiness is an infinite compassion for others.
There is an introduction by Ernest Howard Crosby, which is a complete
sketch in itself.
Through Field and Fallow.
A Choice Collection of Original Poems.
By JEAN HOOPER PAGE.
CLOTH, GILT TOP, $1.00.
It is not always the brilliant work which appeals to us most keenly.
Sarcasm and rhetoric have their place, but the book that lies on the
desk and is found in the mending-basket is the book, nine times out of
ten, that deals with everyday life and sweeps across the strings of the
heart. While Mrs. Page’s work, “Through Field and Fallow,” often touches
the subtle minor chords, it invariably swells to the triumphant major
and rings clear and true in the sweetness of undying hope and
unquenchable faith.
Much of Mrs. Page’s work has appeared first in our great daily
newspapers, but its life has been less ephemeral than theirs. Here and
there a woman has treasured some bit in her scrap book; a man has
clipped a verse and put it away in the drawer of his desk marked
“private.” Sooner or later in this little volume the reader will find
the poem that was written for him.
Father Ryan once wrote: “To uplift the downcast, to sweeten any life, to
feel that we in some way have helped to lighten the great burden that
rests upon mankind—this is the only real compensation that comes to the
poet.” This recompense will be Mrs. Page’s.
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