26 JUNE 1926, Page 24

ESSAYS ON RELIGION. By A. Clutton Brock. (Methuen. 6s. net.)

CANON Sr im has written an introduction to this collection of essays by the late Mr. Clutton Brock. " To him," he says, " religion was a thing essentially spontaneous—an expression of the delight in beauty and the zest of living." And, indeed, Mr. Clutton Brock always approached the problems of life from an ethical or an aesthetic standpoint. His charity and temperate idealism brought reassurance to many readers. In the essays here printed, on " Evil and the New Psychology," " The Nature of Evil," " The Religion of the Particular," and other such subjects, he was very earnestly struggling to find a deeper solution than he had previously attempted ; thus,

although they are fragmentary, they have a stronger tone than his earlier work.