10 OCTOBER 1896, Page 11

Browning and the Christian Faith. By Edward Berdoe, M.D. (George

Allen.)—Dr. Berdoe tells us in his preface that he was driven reluctantly, by doubts and difficulties from which he could find no escape, to abandon his belief in Christianity, and that a study of Browning brought him back to the position which he had left. In this volume he gives us the processes and results of this study. That it is interesting it is almost needless to say. At the same time such a book lies outside the ordinary province of criticism. We simply commend it to our readers with this brief statement of the purpose which inspired it.