RELIGION.
Life Changers. By Harold Begbie. (Mills and Boon. 5s.) Mr. Begbie, following an old plan of his, has collected together a number of narratives of conversion. But this time the subjects are all members of the educated classes, for the most part university students, who have come under the influence of one " F. B.," an American, who is making a special business of converting intellectuals and others. " F. B.," according to Mr. Begbie, is visiting all the English- speaking universities and is by this time the centre of a great religious movement about which the general public knows nothing. His method is to have a personal interview and first allow the undergraduate, or whoever it is, to state all his intellectual objections to Christianity. Then—to quote Mr. Begbie—" F. B." makes this remark, " It isn't any intel- lectual difficulty which is keeping you from God. It is sin. You are a —" It may be anything, from the very worst and most deadly order of sinners to the victim of a bad habit, reckoned by some people to be comparatively harmless. It seems rather unfair, but apparently it succeeds, for Mr. Begbie, as usual, gives us chapter and verse.
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