Mahomel, Founder of Islam. By G. M. Draycott. (Martin Seeker.
10s. 6d. net.)—This new Life of Mehemet states the main facts clearly and is sympathetic in tone. The racy pages of Ockloy and Gibbon give a more vivid idea of Mehemet the man, but Mr. Dmycott represents the prophet and the ruler with no small success. Maltomet's tremendous personality defies analysis, but he has always seemed to us remarkable for the slowness of his development. He was fifty-two when ho fled from Mecca on his great adventure to found a theocracy at Medina, and all his life up to that point had been a seemingly uneventful prepara- tion for the crowded ten years that followed. As Gibbon said, " it is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves our wonder." Islam as a faith stands to-day precisely where he left it in the year 632. though its many sects differ about minor matters, and the spiritual importance of Mecca is consequently as great as it was in 311ahomet's time.
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