To many Churchmen it is the simplicity of the service that savours of an offence. Human vanity dearly loves display, pomp, emotion, with which to salt its devotion to the Almighty and make it palatable to the Deity and to itself. Naaman the Syrian is not the only man who demands splendour of ceremony to colour a religious function in which he engages. His pampered soul feeds on fulsome flattery, and if he does not get it he is angry to the uttermost. BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD, ENGLAND. * * * * * * * * *OUR VILLA IN ITALY* *BY JOSEPH LUCAS* _New and Revised Edition. With 25 full-page Illustrations. Cloth, 5s. net._ "Full of the lure of Florence and, indeed, of all Italy.... Mr. Lucas has written a book which will delight every English lover of that country."--_The Guardian_. "Mr. Lucas has much to tell us of the Italian people, and the descriptions of his neighbours and servants bring them very vividly before us."--_The Outlook_. "The author has a good knowledge of Italian furniture, which is rare even among Italians.... His account of his search for rare ’cassoni’ and Tuscan sideboards, chests of drawers (’cassettoni’) and chairs is delightful; and the photographs of his finds, which include a noble ’cassapanca’ and two very fine tables, are among the most interesting features of his book."--_The Athenæum_.