4 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 18

The September number of St. Martin's Review (6d. monthly, Chandos

Street, W.C. 2) is devoted entirely to St. Francis, and has an article in it by Miss Underhill which alone would make it a number to buy and keep. The " nature mysticism" of St. Francis went far deeper, as she points out, than modern intellectual Monism. The Little Poor Man of Assisi led a secret inner life of which his fire and gaiety were but the outward symbol, the vesture so to speak, of his soul in Christ. We know of his practical works, but not of the passion in his soul on that autumn night when he saw the six-winged angel.

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