A.L. ALEXANDER'S TREASUREHOUSE OF INSPIRATIONAL POETRY AND PROSE

Virtue is not always its own reward--in fact more often than not some of the best impulses have been expressed in some of the worst writing. A great deal of it is here in this voluminous missal of maxims, poems, prose, all the way from the Bible down through the English Lake poets and the American Transcendalists. These are overshadowed by a good deal of claptrap, the spiritual lozenges of Ella Wheeler Wilcox or Grace Noll Crowell, the sermonettes of the author.