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Short Studies in Holiness. By John W. Diggle, M.A., Arch-

deacon of Westmoreland. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)— The keynote of these " studies " is given in the introduction. Holiness is not to be regarded as a gift reserved for specially great saints. All Christians are holy ; or, in other words, not to be holy at all is not to be a Christian at all. But there are degrees in holiness, and the several sections of the book treat of these degrees and of the ways in which they may be ascended. The vein of thought is both devout and reasonable, and some of the commonplaces of the religious life are stated in ways calculated to strike and impress.