The Henson Journals

[10]

Saturday, December 1st, 1928.

Another glorious fine day, & strangely mild. I worked on at the Article, and brought it to some kind of an ending. In the afternoon, I walked in the Park with Lionel, and then confirmed a young sailor of 18 brought to the Chapel by Francis of Middleton St George. I finished Lytton Strachey's "Elizabeth & Essex", a brilliant unsatisfying book. History I know, and fiction I know, but what is this blend of history & fiction which is neither?

An attempt, probably inspired by the publishers, is evidently being made to raise a cry of "the faith in danger" against the "New Commentary on Holy Scripture" edited by Gore, Goudy, and Guillaume, of which the latter sent me a copy. No better device for selling the book could be imagined. The fundamentalist sectaries, however, rarely think it necessary to buy the books they denounce!

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