achieved a great success, and of the pages of this remarkable
biography it is difficult to say whether they reflect more strikingly
the aspects and events of the great century in which Catharine lived
and laboured, or the personality of the saint herself.”
_The Literary World_ says—“The story of Catharine of Siena, as told by
Mrs. Butler, presents the saint in such a new light, that it is well
worth reading by those who would turn with weariness from the lives of
the saints as told either by the Bollandists or Benedictines. It
teaches us that, as one man in his time can play many parts, so a life
which we are tolerably familiar with in one aspect may be seen in a
totally new light, according as it is grouped with others or simply
studied by itself.... We are ready to admit that we have made a
discovery in reading this life of St. Catharine, and the discovery is
all the more striking since Mrs. Butler has apparently not sat down
with any intention of rehabilitating the fair Sienese saint.”
_The Dundee Evening Telegraph_ says—“We see in the beautiful character
portrayed by the accomplished authoress of this volume a noble, pure
and devoted Christian worker. She visited the forsaken prisoner; she
brought comfort and hope to the lost and abandoned; she visited the
sick, and in the hour when all human help fails and the fairest hopes
of earth wither, we see her holding before the plague-stricken dying
people the sacred emblem of sorrow and of triumph, and pointing
undismayed to the unfailing refuge.”
_The Freeman_ says—“No Christian reader will fail to be edified by the
devout spirit and the profound sympathy with all that is noble and
heroic in philanthropy, which pervades both the biographer and the
subject of the biography.”
_The Christian_ says—“We should be glad that all the women of England,
and especially the Christian women, should read this noble life.”
LONDON: DYER BROTHERS, PATERNOSTER SQUARE
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_May be ordered through any Bookseller, or will be sent post-free on
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