SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other formal
In "Pan-Anglican Papers" (S.P.C.K., 2d. each) we have received Religion and the Press. Mr. A. C. Benson and Dr. F. J. Foakes-Jackson write on the Church and Literature. Both are excellent papers. The Congress will certainly not be dull if it is privileged to listen to this kind of thing. Mr. Benson insists on the primary necessity of getting people to read ; read something, and so'get on to read what is worth reading. Some one seems to have attracted a large public by picturing a potato which resembled the head of the great Napoleon. "A generation which revels in potatoes of an interesting shape," says our optimist, "may be succeeded by a generation which will study Boswelrs 'Life of Johnson' or even Law's 'Serious Call.'" Mr. Edward Compton on The Church and Dramatic Literature is not less vigorous. Here, too, we may arrive at the unexpected. Even Mr. Bernard Shaw may help us. "The dreary Sahara of his thought, where every oasis conceals a chatterbox," may make us appreciate very different regions. Finally, we have The Ethics of Journalism, by Mr. J. St. Loe Strachey.
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