…. Yet among the bushels of chaff daily purveyed for the Queen’s long-suffering lieges one precious grain of wheat is sometimes found, and do not hesitate to appley the latter figure to the latest work of Mrs. Ellen Pinsent, entitled “Children of this World” (London: Methuen and co.) There is not a dull page in the book, which is yet built of solid material, discussion as it does the mysteries of life and death, the vxada question of Agnosticism. … (continues at length) …
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949