The Holiness of Pascal. By H. F. Stewart. (Cambridge University
Press. 4s. net.)—Every fresh study of Pascal is valuable, and that Mr. Stewart's Hulsean Lectures are based upon a first-hand study is abundantly clear, both from the lectures themeelvesand from the full and interesting notes with which he illustrates them. We could wish that his space had not been so restricted. Four lectures hardly give rooms for a satisfactory exposition either of the problems with which Passel was called upon to deal, or of thosewhichreeulted from the way in which he dealt with them. Those readers who are already familiar with the theological and philosophical questions at issue will welcome the thoughtful and a:brambly balanced view which Mr. Stewart giros of them ; but we fear that some will find the exposition too compressed for easy digestion. However, upon the point chiefly emphasized, the gradual deepening and purifying of Pascal's character, the portrait here sketched is a convinoing one. We hope it may kindle in many readers the desire for a more thorough and attentive study of the Pene&e.
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