The Henson Journals
Wed 5 July 1916
Volume 20, Page 504
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Wednesday, July 5th, 1916.
702nd day
A bright day but very warm. A bad headache, probably the result of yesterday's travelling, bothered me all the morning. Ella & I walked on the shore. It gave food for thinking to observe the avenues through the cliffs from the beach all guarded with barbed–wire defences! I wrote to Arthur. After lunch I sate in the garden, and made a start with the book which Lillington gave me some while ago, and which I have never yet found time to read. It is called 'Belief & Practice': & the author, 'Will Spens M.A' is a Cambridge don. In the Preface he explains his volume as 'the outcome of a suggestion that he should throw into the form of lectures the substance of a variety of conversations concerning institutional religion'. The style is heavy, & rather pedantic: the manner rather pompous: & the argument less original than it claims to be. Perhaps the thunderous atmosphere hardly assisted me to do justice to the Author or to his work.