14 JANUARY 1922, Page 25

Princes of the Church. By Sir W. Robertson Nicoll. (Hodder

and Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—The editor of the British IV eekly has collected from its pages thirty-four of his attractive essays on notable divines, including Newman, Liddon, Spurgeon, Robertson Smith, Lightfoot and Weateott, Hugh Price Hughes, Parker, Rainy, Martineau, Alexander Maclaren and Charles Silvester Horne. The essays show wide knowledge and a dispassionate temper and make an interesting volume.