Studies of the Soul. By J. Brierley, B.A. (James Clarke
and Co.)—These are well-written essays of the type most popular with the average" serious reader." They were published as articles in the Christian World, and deal very comfortably with a not too "divine despair." There is comfort for the "religiously ungifted." There is pleasant writing about "the soul's colloquies," which is concerned neither with a Santa Teresa's visions nor the pernicious and often pleasant process of talking to oneself, but with the converse which each man holds with himself if he likes it or if he cannot help it. Mr. Brierley still thinks that the Bishops have enormous revenues ; otherwise there is nothing which can be contradicted in a volume ex- cellently suited to houses where "Pleasures of Life," "Blessed be Drudgery," and "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" are very much at home.
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