The Cross in Dark Places. By the Rev. F. Caudwell.
(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Caudwell's book divides itself into two portions. In one he deals with his experi- ences in some of the poorer regions of London ; in the other he comments on the need of spiritual religion among various classes of Churchmen. We might say that those of whose evangelisation he speaks in the first part are practically heathen ; that in the second they are among those "who profess and call themselves Christians." A strange medley of characters are described in the first part ; there is the objector, who is commonly a very shallow and ignorant person indeed ; there is the impostor, a very chameleon for the colours he assumes ; altogether there is a strange, and, but for a strong conviction of duty, a most dis- heartening, variety of hostile forces. In the second part there are many things worth noting. On one point Mr. Caudwell gives emphatic testimony,—the enervating influence of habitual con Session.
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