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These Five Sermons Are An Answer By A Jesuit To

Bishop Gore's Catholicism and Roman Catholicism. The preacher's conclusion is that " in spite of his protests against Protestant- ism in his Church, Bishop Gore is a Protestant......

The Mysticism Of Saint Francis Of Assisi. Illustrated...

by Laurenzio Laurenzi. By D. H. S. Nicholson. (Jonathan Cape. 12s. 6d. net.) The story of St. Francis has already been told so learnedly, so beautifully, so foolishly, and so......

Liberal Evangelicalism. (hodder And Stoughton. 6s. Net.)...

wise and timely book. The religious affinities of Liberal Churchmen are with the Evangelicals ; and it is difficult to conceive a revival of religion in England starting from......

Fiction.

AME RIC AN SHORT STOR I ES.* FROM these twenty stories, taken as a whole, certain prevailing characteristics emerge. The first of these is a preoccupation with particular types......

Poets And Poetry.

MR. MASEFIELD'S NEW POEMS.* IT is now some time since the limited edition of King Cote appeared, but this is the first time it has been made available to the general public. How......

Black, White And Brindled. By Eden Phillpotts. (grant...

6d.) From the slabs of local colour which lie about through this book, it is reasonable to suppose that the author has lately visited the West Indies. The stories are an uneven......

Religion.

Life Changers. By Harold Begbie. (Mills and Boon. 5s.) Mr. Begbie, following an old plan of his, has collected together a number of narratives of conversion. But this time the......

The Gleam. By Sir Francis Younghusband. (murray. 12s.) A...

work of a somewhat unusual kind. It presents to us the doubts, aspirations, difficulties and final beliefs of a small number of persons, all of a deeply religious character, who......

The Mystical Quest Of Christ. By R. F. Horton. (george

Allen and Unwin. 10a. 6d.) This book, by a venerable and distinguished Nonconformist clergyman, may be taken as representative of the best Noncon- formist atmosphere of the......