18 APRIL 1914, Page 26

An Elizabethan Cardinal : William Allen. By Martin Haile. (Sir

Isaac Pitman and Sone. 16a. net.)—We cannot agree with Mr. Haile's description of Cardinal Allen as "a great Englishman." He was, no doubt, an eminent Churchman, single-minded, -self-sacrificing, and of high character. But we would never call any man "a great Englishman" who put his patriotism so far below his dogmas as to wish to see his country subjected to a foreign Power ; and the keynote of Allen's later career was his unwavering belief that "through Spain alone could salvation come to England."