The Way of Martha and the Way of MaryGraham, Stephen
Religion
The Way of Martha and the Way of Mary
Graham, Stephen
National characteristics, Russian; Russia -- Religion
_FIELD._—“The book is full of Mr. Graham’s philosophy, but that
philosophy largely reveals itself in the narration of his
experiences both on board ship and on land. They are narrated with
an abundance of anecdotes and with a charming simplicity of style
which make the book delightful reading.”
_LIVERPOOL POST._—“This is a book of sheer delight which will compel
most readers to finish it at a single sitting. It tells his story in
the free and effortless style which Mr. Graham uses so magically.”
LINDSAY BASHFORD in the _DAILY MAIL_.—“The best of his books. Mr.
Graham is the modern poet-pilgrim; his is the vision of wide roads
and long deliberate journeys; his the gift to understand the heart
of the poor and the wanderers. Each day’s little events, each casual
encounter, each wayside talk or tiny adventure has its deeper
significance, and resolves into the deeper human movements he seeks
for as he goes, and which he interprets for us. I do not know of any
books of contemporaries which have a more intimate appeal, which
speak with more friendly confidence of the actual life of human
beings in our world to-day than do these wonder-books of Mr. Stephen
Graham.”
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
By STEPHEN GRAHAM
A TRAMP’S SKETCHES
Extra Crown 8vo. 5s. net.
_ACADEMY._—“To have read _A Tramp’s Sketches_ is to have been lifted
into a higher and rarer atmosphere. It is to have been made free,
for a few hours at least, of the company of saints and heroes. This
much we owe to Mr. Graham, who has added to English Literature a
book that, if we mistake not, is destined to endure.”
_SPECTATOR._—“Like Jefferies’ _Story of my Heart_, but the author is
much more occupied with men than Jefferies was. Unlike most books of
its kind _A Tramp’s Sketches_ has indisputably a genuine passion
running through it.”
_ENGLISH REVIEW._—“It is a delightful book, redolent of the open
air, of the night, of the great silences of expanse, and yet full of
incident, of real spiritual and material sympathy, both with the
‘black earth’ and the monks of the monasteries, whose hospitality he
enjoyed, and with his fellow-comrades on the road. It is life that
interests the author.”
_PALL MALL GAZETTE._—“Descriptions of Nature are apt to become
tiresome, but we have not been wearied once in reading these pages;
and this is not, we believe, altogether due to Mr. Graham’s fine
style, his ever-adequate perception of the right word, but because
of his sincere and absolute love of Nature in all her moods. Here is
no pretence, no make-believe. He writes of the mystery and beauty of
the sea, the night, the sunset, the moon, and the stars in words
that seem at times to take colour from that which they describe.”
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