105. By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson (read fall of 1942) I was a new freshman in high school when I undertook to read this book. I think it was indicated to me that maybe it was a bit too 'advanced' for me, which made me determined to read it. I think I struggled a bit, but I did read it and was suitably impressed by the story it tells. Page 84 of The Guide to Catholic Literature 1888-1940 quotes from The Catholic World of June 1905 re the book: "An historical novel of Eizabethan England in which the Queen is a character and her persecution of Catholics is the tragic motive of the whole. True to history. Vivid in color, and told with literary skill." ( )