22 DECEMBER 1906, Page 26

Words of Strength and Wisdom.. By.Bishop Steere. . (Universi- ties

Mission to Central Africa. ls. 6d. net.)—There are without doubt many admirable things in this volume, but the selection might have been more judiciously made. " What Temperance Societies are to drunkards, Lent ought to be to gluttons." A drunkard, then, must be reformed for three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, but a glutton only for forty. Of course the Bishop did not mean anything of the kind, but that is what the words may be taken to mean as they stand. Other utterances touch on matters of controversy. There is, for instance, under the beading of " Confession," an unqualified injunction to confess to a priest.