Dean Hodges’ SAINTS AND HEROES: To the End of the Middle Ages.
Illustrated. $1.35 net.
Biographies of Cyprian, Athanasius, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Jerome,
Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, Columba, Charlemagne,
Hildebrand, Anselm, Bernard, Becket, Langton, Dominic, Francis,
Wycliffe, Hus, Savonarola.
Each of these men was a great person in his time, and represented its
best qualities. Their dramatic and adventurous experiences make the
story of their lives interesting as well as inspiring and suggestive.
Church history and doctrine are touched upon only as they develop in the
biographies.
“Here is much important history told in a readable and attractive
manner, and from the standpoint which makes history most vivid and
most likely to remain fixed in memory, namely, the standpoint of the
individual actor.”—Springfield Republican.