THE ROMANCE OF THE INWARD LIGHT By L. V. Holdsworth
(L. V. Hodgkin)
Mrs. Holdsworth's new volume,-The Romance of the Inweiiti Light (Dent, 7s. 6d.) may be regarded as a sequel to tier well-known and well-loved Book of Quaker Saints. The first part consists of studies of the great Quaker founders ; George Fox, his wife Margaret Fell, and Elizabeth Hooten, the first woman preacher of the Friends. It ends with a beautiful account, mainly from original sources, of Fox's last daYs and death. The second .part, in which the writer has allowed herself a greater imaginative freedoin—though always Ain strict submission to historical fact—contains three no* tales of Quaker saints. One of them, "Seek 'em, Keepeti," roust be regarded by the most unregenerate reader as a "yarn" of the. very first class ; and by those whose outlook is nearer that of its writer, as a splendid addition to the literature of heroic sanctity. Mrs. Holdsworth mentions in her preface the pleasure which she received from the letter of a 'Mother Spperior, who had found the Book of Quaker Saints idea for reading aloud to her sisters during. meals, and begged for more of the same 'kind. The disy that the Communiti hhars " Seek 'em, Keeper," ought surely to be kept as 'a Grand Double. t
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