5 JANUARY 1907, Page 32

Modern Pilgrim's Progress (Burns and Oates) describes the phases of

thought through which an educated and thoughtful woman passed on her spiritual journey from the Anglican to the Roman faith. The arguments in favour of the Roman Church are as old as its attractions, and the author does not lay claim to any polemical originality. The interest of the book lies in the transparent sincerity of the writer, and in the manner in which she emphasises the strange fact that a mind constitutionally restless and hungry for new ideas may be completely transformed and for ever pacified by drugs of sacerdotal anaesthetists.