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will hope that under General Higgins the Salvation y may achieve greater success than ever and forget its differences. But the story of the recent crisis was worth , as has been done by Mr. F. A. Mackenzie under somewhat melodramatic title of The Clash of Cymbals alum, 6s.), if only to remove possible misconceptions. Mackenzie says that dissatisfaction with the autocratic e of General Bramwell Booth had been growing for years , and that it came to a head when he was understood be trying to alter the deed poll of 1904 so as to prevent High Council from removing him from office. Mr. ckenzie shows that the control of the Army all over the odd was centralized in the General, and that the attitude f the American section under Commander Evangeline Booth long been unfavourable to this system. The Papacy solved the problem that proved too difficult for the %Con Army, and it is understood that the Third Inter- 'onal controLs all its agents and adherents from Moscow. perhaps a world-wide evangelical mission with no hard- -fast creed cannot be permanently subjected to the rule an individual chief. Mr. F. C. Ottman's enthusiastic iography of Herbert Booth : Salvationist (Jarrold, 5s.) minds us of an earlier breach in the unity of the Army, for erbert, when Commandant in Australia, resigned his post a protest against the iron rule of his father, William Booth, nd thenceforward conducted independent missions.
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