Guidi with the
Brownings.
LECTURING AND WRITING. Intense Energy of Purpose; John Brown's Grave;
Ristori, Fechter, and the Drama; Planchette's Diary; Death of Eliza
Riddle Field.
EUROPE REVISITED. Among London Celebrities; In Spain with Castelar;
Music and Drama; Professor Bell and the Telephone; The Shakespeare
Memorial.
A SIGNIFICANT DECADE. Return to America; Failures and Renewed Effort;
The Mormon Problem; Alaska and the Golden Gate; Fame and Friends.
"KATE FIELD'S WASHINGTON." A Unique Enterprise; Miss Gilder's
Friendship; Charming Life in the Capitol; The Columbian Exposition;
France decorated Kate Field.
CROSSING THE BAR. A Journey of Destiny; Life and Studies in Hawaii;
Noble and Generous Work; The Angel of Death.
IN RETROSPECT. Universal Appreciation and Love; The Strange Ordering of
Circumstance; A Sculptured Cross in Mount Auburn; Death only an Event in
Life.
* * * * *
The Spiritual Significance
or, Death as an Event in Life
By LILIAN WHITING. Author of "The World Beautiful," "Boston Days,"
etc. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00. Decorated cloth, gilt top, $1.25.
Comprising: THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION AND ACHIEVEMENT;
BETWEEN THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN; PSYCHIC COMMUNICATION; THE GATES
OF NEW LIFE.
It suggests and hints at the ultimate significance of scientific
investigation with relation to the totality of thought in a very fresh
and suggestive way.... The spirit of her book, like that of its
predecessors, is admirable.--_The Outlook_.
A book from her pen means new flashes of insight, a revelation of
spiritual truth almost Emersonian in kind.--_Chicago Chronicle_.
* * * * *
The World Beautiful
in Books
By LILIAN WHITING. 16mo. Cloth, $1.00 _net_. Decorated cloth, $1.25
_net_.
The careful and repeated reading of "The World Beautiful in Books" would
be a liberal education.--_Philadelphia Telegraph_.
It is like a Greek urn filled with priceless relics. Hundreds of brains,
ancient and modern, are daintily picked of their best thoughts, and
there is scarcely a page that is not enriched with some rifled treasure.
It is, in fact, concentrated food for select minds.--_Chicago Post_.
To read it is like being taken informally into a great assemblage of
poets, romancers, and thinkers, while all are at their best, and being
introduced to them by a near friend of all.--_The Era_, Phila
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