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"The Shadow," by Harold Begbie (R.T.S.. London), is an absorbing book. We become interested at once in Mary Grafton and" her son, for it is Mary who claims our attention, with her dominant personality, her almost unearthly piety and her passionate maternal love. The most vivid scene is that in winch Mary, fearing ill, arrives at her son's studio in Paris to find that the child of many prayers has been led astray by bad companions, and whilst engaged in painting a Madonna of such surpassing beauty that it afterwards becomes world-famous, has at the same time been leading a life of dissipation, culminating in an act of blasphemy so appalling thai the mother's heart is broken acid she dies shortly afterjcrardse ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14566, 31 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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124OTHER PUBLICATIONS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14566, 31 December 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)
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