The Ministry of Beauty 
Treated in a bold and confident way, yet with clearness 
of vision and vigor of expression, 
His essays are notable for a fearless optimism that is not 
only stimulating but convincing.—Boston Transcript. 
It is a book that will give health and comfort to many 
people.—Boston Times. 
Mr. Kirkham has stated old truths in a singularly attrac- 
tive and winsome form, and it would be hard to speak too 
much in praise of his gentle insistence on the pursuit of the 
beautiful as the royal road to individual evolution and the 
peace that it brings.—Sax Francisco Argonaut, 
An exceedingly helpful volume.— Boston Globe. 
The author writes very well; he has evidently thought 
and read seriously. He reveals a sincere sympathy for the 
ideals he prescribes for others and an ardent response to the 
loveliness of nature which he maintains will lead to the higher 
beauty of the things of the spirit.—LZouisuille Courier 
Journal, 
The author says many true and inspiring things and says 
them with a brilliancy that reminds one strongly of Emerson, 
—Chicago Record-Herald, 
Some people are going to get a deal of enjoyment out of 
this book: others there be who will look and wonder why it 
was ever written. Those who dip into it and get the habit 
will find it possessing the power to hold.— Denver Republican, 
The literature of reflection has an addition of considera- 
ble merit in the ‘‘ Ministry of Beauty.”— Rochester Herald, 
It is a book that you can carelessly place on your parlor 
table with the comforting conviction that any one turning its 
pages will find it serviceable, and sure to teach good to our 
kind.—Portland Oregonian. 
The style is brilliant as well as poetical, and has the touch 
of delicate humor which so refreshingly removes all sense of 
morbidity when one is thinking seriously and feeling deeply, 
—Portland Press, 
