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War with the Saints. By Charlotte Elizabeth. 18mo, pp. 800. London: Seeley.“ The present volume is the last work which proceeded from the pen of Charlotte Elizabeth. It occupied much of her time and thoughts during the last eighteen months of her life; and the story and her earthly existence came to a close almost at the same moment.” The fact thus stated in the Preface will be a source of additional interest to all who know the writings of the editor of “ The Christian Lady's Magazine” This is her dying testimony to the craft and cruelty of “ The Man of Sin. The subject of the volume is the bloody extermination of the Albigenses in the early part of the thirteenth century, during the papacy of ; Innocent III., by that most ruthless of soldiers, Simon de Montfort 5 not the Earl of Leicester, as the writer supposes, but’ his father. The painfhl story is told with affecting earnestness; the dark features of antichrist are strikingly depicted, and so is the character of many of his heartless instruments in this horrible task; indeed, the most graphic scenes are often pourtrayed in the halls of the Vatican, the Cathedral of Toulouse, and on the fields of Languedoc, which were stained with the blood of the saints. The foi-I lowing are the subjects of the different chapters:—The Church of Christ in the twelfth century—Antichrist— the Crusaders — the Cavern — the Lady of Lavaur —the Wearing Out—Conclusion. As a work of history, as , truthful narrative, as an antidote to the insidiousnessII of Popish error, it has our cordial approbation.
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British Banner
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Feb 23, 1848
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