An Hour at the Front. By Ronald Knox. (Society of
SS. Peter and Paul. ld.)—How many there must be to-day who are in spirit always with the gallant men in the firing line, and whose mute prayers go up hour by hour for their assistance ! Mr. Knox, of Trinity College, Oxford, has had a happy thought in presenting them with this little aid to devotion, "intended for those who either find the repetition of long vocal prayers wearying, or who, being accustomed rather to that inward prayer which is not formed with the lips, are nevertheless conscious of some difficulty in adapting that method to the exigencies of a great national affliction." The booklet is divided into twelve periods of five minutes, for each of which an appropriate subject of prayer is suggested, and the experiences of the soldiers and their relatives are briefly represented. It should be helpful to the devout of every creed, even though Anglicans less broad-minded than Mr. Knox may be unable to join in his last prayer, for the dead and " the poor souls in Purgatory."
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