AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD: Recollections of Many Years

by Macdonald, Frederic W

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London:: Cassell,, 1919. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped; bookcloth lightly blistered in spots; ink gift inscription on front endpaper; otherwise, condition good.. index. With portrait frontispiece. Charming, interesting reminiscences by British Methodist minister; later, President of Methodist Conference. Through his sisters' marriages, he was brother-in-law of artists Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, J. Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling), & Arthur Baldwin (father of British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin). ||| Rev. Macdonald tells anecdotes of relations with those family members & their friends; of his rise in Methodism & travels on behalf of Methodist Conference to America, Australia, Italy, & other parts of Europe; he comments on friendships & places he has seen in agreeable, enjoyable way.