Longmans, Green and Co, first published 1947, this being the Second Impression of 1949. Lucy Menzies, the Scottish spiritual writer, translator and literary executor of Evelyn Underhill, here turns from her studies of medieval saints and mystics to modern Anglican pastoral life in this biography of Father Wainright, the Anglo-Catholic slum-priest of St Peter's, London Docks, one of the poorest parishes in England. For fifty-six years Wainright worked among his people, refusing any holiday, giving away his shirt and jacket to working men who had none and binding the bare feet of children with newspaper in winter. Menzies presents him as a modern Anglican counterpart to the Cure d'Ars, portraying holiness embodied in sacramental parish life, urban ministry and service to the poor; the book was introduced by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, former Bishop of London, and its royalties were directed to the restoration of St Peter's after wartime damage. This copy carries genuine period Australian provenance: the ownership inscription Alan Hallas, Bunguna, Ash Wednesday 1950 and a Diocesan Book Society Melbourne bookplate. Blue cloth boards sound; dust jacket present with tearing and chipping to the top corner and spine tail. Good condition.