The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-22
l<xx WITH SPURS OF GOLD" is the
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//xv rITH SPURS OF GOLD" is the
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 volume of stories of famous knights. by Miss Frances Freen and Miss Dolly Williams Kirk of Montgomery
 Little. Brown & Co. of Boston have shown their appreciation of the literary merit of this production by the attractive and artistic form in which they have presented 1t to the public.
 The collection embraces vivid narra- lives of the lives of Roland and Oliver the Cid Godfrey de Bouiiion. Richard Coeur-de-Lion, the Chevalier Bayard, and Sir Philip Sidney. In addition to these stories are some rare old poems germane to the general subject, knight-errantry' or to the particular biographies included in the work.
 Harold M. Brett, the well-known illus trator. has done some of his characteristic cally sympathetic work in the book With rare precedence he seems to have caught and portrayed the psychological moment fin each of the lives depicted
 Though With Spurs of Gv-- is written chiefly for the instruction and entertain ment of the young children O. larger
 
 perusing again these stories of valorous deeds done by warriors of the long ago. When ones belief in human virtue is somewhat strained by reading daily chronicles of the unfaith of men to trust and of the soraid deeds of those in great power 1t somewhat re-establishes youth full ideals to revert to that Knight With out fear and without reproach, the
 ln the honors proffered to tempt nm rom auepiance to .hs king, saying simply, l have but one master in heaven-God, and one upon earth-the king of F'rance' or to Sir Philip Sidney, whose self-respect and ,.l measure of manhood caused nun to justly give the lie to the powerful Lord of oxford, and to refuse to make anoloqv even when imperatively ordered to do so by his adored and sovereign oueen: or to Godfrey, first King of Jeru- salem, who freed from profane thraii the sepulchre of Christ, and of whom Tasso says:
 Mucb did he toll in thought and much in deed,
 Much in glorious enterprise sustain And hell in vain opposed him.
 In reading With Spurs of Gold.' one s blood is stirred py the neighing or the
 
 loud clangor of the trumpet in war alarms, the flashing and striking Of blades, and the prowess of valiant knights who rode with Deaths couriers. Fame and Honor" The reader Is swept back into the centuries and into a full sym pathy with the deep.
 bliss of the belted knight
 When he kisses at dawn the silken glove, And goes in IS glittering armor dight, To shiver lance for his ladye-love."
 Neither of the joint authors of With Spurs of Gold' is unknown to the reading public Each has received the annually bestowed prize of the Alabama Federation of Womens Clubs; Miss Kirk's paper dealing with Shakespearian subject. and Miss Greene's, with the poetry of Robert Burns Poems by each of these young women have appeared in the current press Miss Greene first won her position among professional authors with her we'll known book, King Arthur and His Court" This work Is so chaste both in diction and thought that it has been placed in a large number of public schools throughout America and Eng land as a supplementary reader, and is Listed by the American Library associa-