3 OCTOBER 1896, Page 24

Essay on Indifference in Matters of Religion. By the Abbe

F. De Lamennais. Translated by Lord Stanley of Alderley. (J.

Macqueen.)—Lord Stanley translated this book, the first volume

of the Essay, in 1862, lost the MS., and recently finding it again, has now given it to the world. We are glad to have it; it is by

no means obsolete; the questions with which it deals still burn, perhaps with a greater heat than they did in 1817, when this first volume was published. It is impossible for an Anglican to accept all De Lamennais' statements, but he will feel, we venture to say, more in than out of harmony with him. The translation reads well, but we have not had the opportunity of comparing it with the original.