25 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 16

Lea Douleurs qui Es*rent. Par I'Abbe Felix Klein. (Paris: Perrin.

3 fr. 50 e.)—The Abbe Klein, chaplain to the American Ambulance, has in this eloquent and touching little book described some episodes from his experience of the war to show how suffering has been nobly borne and how in the horrors of the trenches faith has often been renewed.

The paper on " Professeur Officier," a young philosopher who fell in Champagne, contains some admirable letters illustrating this theme. It is noteworthy that with his Pascal and his Corneille this French scholar read Mr. Kipling's Light that Failed, and remarked that it was " a comforting book (if one needed comfort) like all Kipling." Some- how this aspect of Mr. Kipling's work had escaped us.