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Fire Out of Flint
Roberts, Donald A. | October 16, 1929 issue

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This article literally appraises the book "John Knox, Portrait of a Calvinist" by Edwin Muir. Needless to say the portrait of John Knox which Mr. Muir so ably presents resembles very little the solemn, heroic figure that stands beside Calvin, Beza, and Farel against the heights of old Geneva. The sculptor's granite gives a sense of placid power and singleness of purpose that the more complex art of the modern biographer neither seeks nor desires. Mr. Muir's portrait is etched. The lines are bitten deep; the blacks and whites burn in their vividness, but even so there are nuances that almost bring color to the portrait.

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JOHN Knox, Portrait of a Calvinist (Book); MUIR, Edwin; KNOX, John; BIOGRAPHY; GRANITE; BOOKS & reading
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