Kansas City journal., 1897-10-11

/ of country. Turn the meager details of
| history as one may, the fact remains un-
| altered that faith made perfect in weak
about which Mrs. Catherwood has woven
her simple romance. The author has the
property of seeing her story clairvoyantly,
and of telling what she saw with a con-
vincing vividness of detail. The spirit in
which she has approached her task is
shown by the following from her preface:
This book is the outcome of many months
of patient study and collection of material
| in America, the revisal and rejection of
much of this in Paris. of journeys over
Domremy to Rouen, in voitures, on foot,
| in carts, of n character study of the fif-
| teenth century, and, at the risk of moving
a smile, will confess it as the result of
| divine hint"
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