12 DECEMBER 1896, Page 23

The Travels of Seek - Trust. By W. T. Andress. (E.

Wilmshurst.) —This is an allegory, one of the numberless imitations of "The Pilgrim's Progress." Mr. Andress has the courage of his opinions. Music, singing, eloquence, and unsanctified human learning are among the " unlawful means" for "bringing the ungodly under the world." The Pope is the " Man of Sin " (surely it is a little strange to say that "John wrote when Pagan Rome had only a few more years of her course to run") ; " the" wafers are the cakes used in the worship of Ashtaroth ; and so on. " Higher Criticism " is one of the new enemies that beset the pilgrim's path. His father, we are told, is Antichrist, and his mother Irreverence.