For Mother with Love Book

Novelists and dramatists, poets and painters have always been inspired by the relationship of mother and child. Many of the world's outstanding leaders in every field of endeavor have heaped praise on their own mothers and have acknowledged with pride their lifelong influence. In memorable words and evocative images, For Mother With Love, pays tribute to mothers and to motherhood. D. H. Lawrence, for example, describes his mother as "my first, great love," and James M. Barrie writes: "When you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open the minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts." Among the many who extol motherhood are Pearl Buck, Henry Ward Beecher, Washington Irving, Honore de Balzac, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and George Eliot. Included, too, are women's descriptions of their own experiences of motherhood and of the poignancy of being a mother. Agatha Christie, for instance, declares that "there is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger." This charming celebration of mothers is made all the more delightful by the lovely decorations and illustrations that complement the words. Among the artists represented are Jessie Willcox Smith, Harrison Fisher, Kate Greenaway, and W. L. Taylor.