Mont-Saint-Michel And Chartres

From the moment when through the courtesy of my friend Barrett Wendell I camefirst to know Mr. Henry Adamss book MontSaint Michel and Chartres I wasprofoundly c... » 

From the moment when through the courtesy of my friend Barrett Wendell I camefirst to know Mr. Henry Adamss book MontSaint Michel and Chartres I wasprofoundly convinced that this privately printed jealously guarded volumeshould be withdrawn from its hidingplace amongst the bibliographical treasuresof collectors and amateurs and given that wide publicity demanded alike by itsintrinsic nature and the cause it could so admirably serve. To say that thebook was a revelation is inadequately to express a fact at once all thetheology philosophy and mysticism the politics sociology and economicsthe romance literature and art of that greatest epoch of Christiancivilization became fused in the alembic of an unique insight and precipitatedby the dynamic force of a personal and distinguished style. WhitehallSudbury Massachusetts June 1913 «