In this novel the author attempts to trace what he believes will be the future situation in the religious world, placing the date of his book in the twenty-first century. Briefly stated, the _motif_ is that religious thought is converging into two main camps--Humanitarianism and Supernaturalism. Humanitarianism, or, rather, a kind of Pantheism, seems to him to be the inevitable outcome of modern tendencies of thought as severed from dogmatic Christianity; and, on the other side, he attempts to show that the Church must, sooner or later, become the home of all who believe in the Supernatural at all. LONDON: SIR ISAAC PITMAN & SONS, LTD., No. 1 AMEN CORNER, E.C. BY ROBERT HUGH BENSON The Light Invisible In crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. "Contains fifteen narratives of visions or incidents put into the mouth of a saintly old Catholic priest.... It is written in a style in harmonious keeping with its mystic tone, and there are several scenes of striking pathos."--_The Manchester Guardian._ "It is impossible to appraise in the ordinary terms of criticism a book which appeals to us so strongly as 'The Light Invisible.' Its delicate, elusive mysticism, its deep spirituality, exercise upon the sympathetic reader an irresistible charm, which can hardly be analysed or defined."--_Church Times._ Richard Raynal, Solitary In crown 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. "'Richard Raynal' tells of a 'solitary' or mystical hermit, who went to warn Henry VI of sin and death, was beaten and died. That is all. But the slight thread of the story is wonderfully moving. Father Benson has made out of these tiny materials a fabric of the most fragrant sweetness, the most delicate colours."--_Morning Leader._ "Here is no controversy, no heated passions swayed by theological bitterness, but whether the scenes are peaceful or warlike, beautiful or terrible, over all is the sun radiance and serenity of unruffled faith.... It is written with a great beauty of style, and there is a vividness in some of the details that take back the entranced reader into the fifteenth century."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ A Mirror of Shalott In crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. "In this volume Father Hugh Benson sets down a collection of fourteen stories supposed to be told during social evenings in Rome by Catholic priests and laymen of varied nationalities.... Each of the stories deals with a supernatural experience of the narrators.... With his dramatic skill Father Benson makes almost visible the effect upon those assembled of each extraordinary experience recited; with his singular simplicity of style, his easy command of eloquent appeal and striking phrase, he draws us within the shadow of the supernatural. The emotions of the soul on the brink of departure have seldom been imagined with such a passion of religious fervour. Admirable work we expect always from the youngest of three gifted brothers, and with his latest book no reader will be disappointed."--_Globe._