Conversion, Catholicism and the English Church. By the Bishop of
Bloemfontein. (A. R. Mowbray. 2s. net.) Father Tyrrell used to illustrate the right order of our religious beliefs by the figure of a triangle, the base of which was Theism, the middle region Christianity, and the apex Catholicism. When this triangle rested on its base, it was solid ; when on its apex, it was insecure. The Bishop's triangle is in the former position. But he' is as well aware as Tyrrell was that this is by no means always the case :— " I found by bitter experience that it is possible to go to con- fession regularly and to communion daily, and yet to have a bitter tongue, a narrow heart, a lazy and contemptuous outlook. In fact, I grew to look for the greatest intolerance and the most unloving outlook in the most ' Catholic ' circles."
Or as Bishop Creighton puts it : "The good people are not as good as they think themselves ; and the bad people are not so bad as the good people think them."
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