19 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 21

" Sufferin g ," the late Bishop Hedley is q uoted as sayin g ,

"gives a certain kind of intensity to acts of the will." If we would search our inner Jerusalem with lamps, their light must certainly shine for us through the experience born of suffering. A wise Jesuit, Father Laurent de Smet, says this and many other useful things in a series of essays which have been translated from the French and adapted for English readers by Sister Mary Capes. (Suffering, its Meaning and Value. Sands. 7s. 6d.)