7 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 14

Studies in Saintship. Translated from the French of Ernest Hello,

with an Introduction, by Virginia M. Crawford. (Methuen and Co. 3s. 6d.)—Mrs. Crawford's introduction, in which she describes the life and work of Ernest Hello, is highly interesting. When we come to read the studies themselves, it is difficult to retain such an attitude of mind as would enable us to appreciate their excellences. What are we to think when we find a writer, who, were he now alive, would be of no unusual age, accepting the strangest of mediaeval miracles, and telling us how a rich usurer's heart—a heart of flesh and blood—was found, by the power of St. Anthony of Padua, among the gold and silver in his coffer, and how St. Goar hung his cope on a sunbeam !