14 APRIL 1883, Page 23

A Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto.

By George Falkner. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Falkner describes the " Holy House," the gorgeous church in which it is enshrined, and its treasury, rich with the offerings of many generations of devotees, with the feeling of a lover of art ; and he tells its story, not exactly from the stand- point of a believer—which, indeed, it must be difficult even for a convert to assume—but with that sympathy which it is not difficult to feel with the genuine belief of others. The volume is handsomely illustrated from drawings and photographs, and makes a very appropriate record of an interesting expedition.