A MINISTER'S FAMILY.
In "The Girl Who Made an Angel" (Cassell) Ruth Manning-Sanders introduces to us a Unitarian minister who id a widower, and his three young daughters, at the end of last century. Tlio minister is an earnest and scholarly man in the middle forties. It is Mary, aged 11, who makes the angel. Literally, there is no angel. Mary sees her own image, vaguely reflected, in an immense mirror at the end of a. passage in her home. She knows there is no angel, and yet she assumes and insists for a long time that there is, and that she has seen it. But. in a way, she herself acts as a kind of angel. And all this is skilfully told. There is nothing exciting about the story, but it is none the less delightful, and its charm lies in the simplicity and intimacy with which it is told. There is quiet humour in the book and sly hits at some of the church folk, botli male and female. But is the authoress right in speaking of an altar in a Unitarian church? And do office bearers quarrel about the method of taking the offertory and air their grievances to their minister on the war home from church?
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 289, 5 December 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)
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210A MINISTER'S FAMILY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 289, 5 December 1936, Page 2 (Supplement)
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