29 JANUARY 1898, Page 13

Helps Towards Belief in the Christian Faith. By E. G.

Griffen- hoofe, M.A. (Ward and Downey.)—Much that is sensible and useful will be found in this volume. Mr. Griffenhoofe has a chapter on "Good Sense," and he has evidently the value of this quality steadily in mind. Now and then he seems to weight his argument with an untenable theory. He quotes, for instance, with some sort of approval, the theory that "a revelation of the true God was made to the whole world at some far remote period of time." But surely this cannot be reconciled with the now accepted fact of the immense antiquity of the human race.