22 JUNE 1929, Page 42

The minister of St Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh, is always an

important man by virtue of his office. But the late holder of the charge had special claimsto remembrance, as Lord Sands shows in his attractive and interesting Life of Andrew Wallace Williamson (Blackwood, 10s.). He was IRA merely a good preacher, but also a man of independent character and sound sense. In his earlier years, ,as Lord Sands notes, he showed much sympathy with those whom bld-fashioned Presbyterians described as Ritualists, like the late Professor Cooper, of Glasgow. Wallace Williamson did not allow himself to go too far on this path, but he helped to improve and brighten the average Presbyterian service and thus served the cause of religion.