GOSPEL OF COMRADESHIP.*
IT is not to be denied that hundreds of little books, intended to commend Christianity to the uninstructed, have been written during and since the war, and that many of them have failed to " catch on." That is, however, no reason why a new one should be cold-shouldered at once, especially if it is written by one who knows exactly what is the hunger in the souls of a vast number of Englishmen to-day. Mr. Wickham's book is of this kind. We heartily commend it, partly because, as the Bishop of Oxford says in his " Foreword," "the subject has been thought out in the light of a simple and clear purpose. There is the right note of sincerity and humility " ; partly because it is unlike all the other little war-books that we have seen. It sets forth the attractive side of Christianity, and yet very successfully keeps the due proportion of outline, and consequent sobriety of tone. Of course this is not to say that it is exciting, or that a generation drugged with snippets from tenth-rate magazines will be able to digest it. But none the less, nay, all the more, does it deserve to be read by the numerous class who want to know what the Gospel of Christ really is.
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