Old fashioned enjoyment
While I don't like this particular edition, I'll read Baring Gould in any form. This is not a religious biography; it's an absorbing history of a not-quite-Victorian-era intellectual and eccentric, and the world he lives in is much more complex than the stereotypical drawing rooms and vicaragess of the Victorian age. (Think of the Bronte's father; he would have lived something like this.)
