Page:Zawis and Kunigunde (1895).djvu/322

 vilify her name and attempt to throw dishonor upon her work, fear the truth and are afraid to have the dead body of history uncovered. Mrs. Gage is the victim of Christian superstition, of religious prejudice, but this foolish and unjust persecution of one of America’s great women and one of the century’s true reformers, ought to bring her latest and greatest effort before the public, which we feel confident will, after reading it, vindicate not alone her work, but her forcible language, as necessary to fitly reveal the subject under discussion.”

The “Church Union” of New York, a Congregational paper of wide circulation, which numbers eight clergymen among its contributing editors, has given the book two reviews, the first from the pen of its editorin-chief, the second presumably from that of Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D., the famous reform clergyman of New York. The first says, “We have not space for more than a notice of this highly interesting book. We should like to give it the extensive review it deserves and thus to summon the attention of our readers to some of the very important truths that are presented and which call for thought on the part—of all. But get the book and study its striking contents for yourself.” The second review declares that “its teeming pages contain not a few important and neglected truths which it would be well for churches and state to ponder.”

Moncure D. Conway, of London, England, the biographer of Emerson, wrote, “It has long been my usage to read everything I encountered from your pen. I shall probably have something to say of it in one of my discourses at South Place.”