Abstract

The Christian Science Censor: IV. The Siege of Fort Scribner

The effort of directors of the Mother Church to suppress Edwin Franden Dakin's "Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of a Virginal Mind," published last summer by Charles Scribner's Sons, and the methods employed in that effort have fortunately received an unusual amount of publicity. The entire incident is so revealing, however, that it cannot be omitted in any account of the church censorship, and there are certain aspects of it that have not hitherto received due attention. The author attempt no criticism or appraisal of Dakin's work further than a reminder, to those of his readers who share his own distaste for the "modern" method in psychology and biography, that the book is a careful, thoroughly documented study, which was greeted by reviewers almost without exception as one of the outstanding biographies of the year.