16 JUNE 1923, Page 20

These five sermons are an answer by a Jesuit to

Bishop Gore's Catholicism and Roman Catholicism. The preacher's conclusion is that " in spite of his protests against Protestant- ism in his Church, Bishop Gore is a Protestant free-thinker." This may be so. But the controversy between Roman Catholic and Anglo-Catholic reminds the profane of the feud between, the respective partisans of Bononcini and Handel :- " Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; Others aver that he to Handel

Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.

Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee."