Saints and Parachutes. By John Miller, C.C., (Constable, r 25.
6d.) ADOPTING an original and not very success- ful method, Lt.-Commander Miller, who served through most of the war in the Admiralty mine-disposal service and gained the George Cross for achievements which demanded cold Courage of the highest ogler, devotes alternate chapters to this form of almost terrifying activity and to the development of his religious convictions, over a much longer period, a process which has carried him in the end into the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church. The adven- tures with mines are thrilling ; the religious explorations and discoveries have an interest of a different kind. But there is no associa- tion between the two and the author achieves nothing by the method he has chosen except a constant interruption of both his narra• tives, more on the whole to be regretted in the matter of the mines than in the matter of the soul. In regard to the latter the only mention of his final decision is a passing observation—" when I later became a Roman Catholic," with no indication whether the decision was permanently satis- fying or not. An undeniably interesting, but unnecessarily unsatisfactory, book.
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