The author, a convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism, defends the Catholic Church through the detailed narration of his own conversion. The book has a high apologetic interest. Fluid style, very well written, based on the documented narration of the facts, as they developed throughout his life.
It is a spiritual autobiography of a man searching for his own conscience. It is amazing to realize how such a remarkable intellectual is at the same time such an honest person, wanting to know the truth and to follow what God shows him: it is an apology (defense) of his life, but also a defense of the Church, against the attacks. These writings are also a reflection of his anti-liberal struggle, so advanced for his time, which many Anglicans did not understand. The biography portrays well what the Anglican church is, and how its members think.