6 DECEMBER 1919, Page 25

An Invisible Kingdom. By W. S. Lilly. (Chapman and Hall.

15s. net.)—Canon Barry has edited his friend's last book, which Mr. Lilly was revising just before his death in August. It contains seven ethical essays, reprinted from the reviews, on " The Bond of Human Society," The Monitions of Strikes," war, memory, sleep, the social value of Christianity, and the character of Cardinal Newman. Mr. Lilly's religious standpoint was not ours, but his steady insistence on the moral law was valuable in an age of unrest. In the essay on " The Mystery of Sleep " he recalls some curious and seemingly well-authenti- cated cases of dreams that anticipated events or the knowledge of events, as modern parallels to the legend of Pope Paschal I. being helped by a dream or vision to find the body of St. Cecilia.