evenings at Lambeth, till George III. peremptorily interfered.' We have heard of a saltatory chancellor in Hatton, but we never heard of an archbishop dancing in persona, as Mr. Neale assures us. What King George interfered with was-not Archbishop Cornwallis dancing himself, or giving dances to others but with Mrs. Cornwallis's routs; which, though akin to, is certainly not quite the same thing as 'Cornwallis dancing away his evenings at Lambeth.'

The Scottish Ecclesiastical Journal,' (Grant,) has reached us in its first complete volume. It is a periodical of a high range of intelligence, and cannot but be useful and acceptable.

Tracts on Catholic Unity.' (Darling.) The purpose of these tracts is to collect into an accessible form the arguments and principles advanced by the Syncretic school. As a contribution to peace and a healing measure, we presume that no Christian mind will refuse to accept the purpose of such a series. The Evangelical Alliance takes one form of the purpose; Davenport (Santa Clara) another; Bossuet another; Leibnitz another; Mr. Wix, in the beginning of the century, another; Mr. Appleyard recently another; while neither the attempts made by the nonjurors or by some of ourselves to open up intercourse with the Oriental Churches are to be excluded from this peace-loving end. The Editors are members of the Church of England. A trace of exaggerated language is beginning to display itself in No. 4, from which we thought its predecessors free.

Dr. Peile's Annotations on the Apostolical Epistles,' (Rivingtons,) has reached its fourth and concluding volume. In so vast a body of annotations we cannot be expected to concur entirely. But the learning, diligence, fairness, and scholarship exhibited go far towards redeeming the imputation under which we lie for neglecting exegetical studies.

How can we best have Three Services instead of Two?' is a question ' examined and replied to by Mr. W. J. Stracey.' (Masters.) Mr. Stracey confines himself to the Sunday services. He argues, and we are not prepared to pronounce decidedly and at once against the view, that when the Litany is ordered to be said after Morning Prayer, this does not, or may not necessarily, mean ' immediately after.' All that it need mean, he says, is that the Litany is not to be used before Morning Prayer. He then goes on to show that it is not implied that the Litany should be invariably said before the Holy Communion; from which his conclusion is, that the Morning Prayer should make one Sunday Office, the Liturgy the second, or afternoon, and Evening Prayer the third. We are glad to find Mr. Stracey giving no countenance to the unfortunate innovation of an evening celebration of the Eucharist.

'The Ark, and other Sermons,' by Mr. R. Bellis, (J. W. Parker,) in so far as it claims readers on the strength of a Preface by Rev. A. M'Caul, D.D., Professor of Divinity at King's College, London,' is a literary fraud. The Preface is a couple of pages, in which the reverend Professor idealises Popish sermons and rationalizing sermons, and then assures us that

Mr. Bellis' discourses are neither one nor the other. Perhaps but, to change the Professor's antithesis, they are to us a proof of the possibility of being pretentious without originality, and pert without power. Instead of printing his own, the Curate of High Wycombe and Theological Associate of King's College' would have been much better employed in reading other people's sermons.

A second volume of Village Sermons,' by Mr. A. Baxter, of Hampreston, from the same publisher, struck us much by their simplicity and suitableness to place and occasion.

We can assure Mr. Wilmshurst that we have no especial fault to find with his 'Sermons.' (Masters.) He intimates that they were drawn up under peculiar circumstances:' and we are not concerned to be inquisitive what those circumstances were. The writer is very modest: he does not pretend to originality. He has read the right sort of books, and his sermons are in doctrine a syllabus-not always accurate, however—of Bull and Newman on Justification, and on the harmony of the two Apostles. He seems to be sound on other points: and there are in his sermons traces of a practical spirit and a real appreciation of the wants of those he is addressing. But the first sermon we turned to (Serm. iv. p. 33) commences thus: 'Conversion is the responsibility of man yielding to the suasive influence of 'the preventing grace of the Holy Spirit as it would lead him, (after it has • laid open to him his lost estate as a fallen creature, and the necessity of his being recovered from that state, before he can be fitted for Heaven,) to lay hold of by faith through its appointed channel of Baptism, that gift of " grace which is ordained to effect this recovery, and to accomplish that increase in holiness which he is capable of now, as a Baptised man, he is 'placed in a recovered state, viz.: Christ's righteousness.' Now, supposing this sentence to be grammar, which it is not-and admitting its good intention to express accurately a technical statement in theology—we ask one question: Mr. Wilmshurst is Curate of Kirby Muxloe and Braunstone, and we presume that the rustics of those famous villages were expected to hear the sermon decorated with this beginning. Did it ever occur to Mr. Wilmshurst what impression such an exordium would make upon the congregation of Muxloe? It is the boast of our Church that its services should be understanded of the people:' why should not her Clergy extend this merciful provision to the Sermon?

Mr. Stuart's Sermon on the 'Pew System,' (Masters,) is unusually interesting; the author having shown his thorough appreciation of his principle by building and endowing a handsome new Church without pews and pewrents.

Of Sermons, we have to acknowledge: 1. A Volume (the second) displaying considerable force of language and an animated pictorial style, together with sound and practical doctrine, by Mr. Edward Miller, of Bognor. (Rivingtons.)-2. A Volume by Dr. Wilkinson, preached in the chapel of Marlborough College. (Murray.) These are generally so useful, so much to the purpose, so direct and intelligible, that in alluding-grace

fully enough to his unpolemical object in preaching them, we think the respected preacher might have spared some observations in his preface which look like unnecessary reflections on others. It is Dr. Wilkinson's especial purpose to teach his boys; it may be somebody else's purpose to discharge other functions in the Church. Why should not each hold his own-and do good each in his own way? Even to discuss management clauses,' as he puts it, may, in the great Ecclesiastical Economy, have a purpose as useful as the doctrine of the verbs in μ. We are sure that Dr. Wilkinson acknowledges this as frankly as we admit that the master of a great school has a great religious charge; and it is a consolation to know that in most of our public schools—and most certainly in Marlborough, under Dr. Wilkinson's auspices-this responsibility is acted up to :—as we are reminded by a good single Sermon, Witnesses to the Truth,' preached at Harrow School by Dr. Vaughan, on the death of Mr. Keary, an AssistantMaster, (J. W. Parker,) as well as by a very graceful and ingenious 'Founders' Day Sermon,' preached at the Charter-house, Education the Business of Life,' (Walker,) by Mr. Phillott, lately one of the masters. We have also received, 1. 'Deserters from the Congregation,' also by Dr. Vaughan, (J. W. Parker,) on the reopening of S. Martin's, Leicester. We cannot coincide in some of its statements. 2. 'The Ministry of Reconciliation,' by Mr. E. T. Vaughan, (J. W. Parker,) the Vicar, preached on the same occasion. 3. 'Ritual Worship,' (Harrison,) preached at Leeds at a consecration-a very good sermon-by Mr. C. Dodgson. 4. Mr. B. Wilson's Four Sermons on the Deity and Incarnation of our Lord,' (Rivingtons,) preached at Fordham. 5. Mr. Nowell's Farewell Sermon' at S. Mary, Leeds. (Harrison.) 6. 'One and All,' an able lecture, by Mr. Newland, delivered at Stoke Damerel, (Masters.)

While we are at press, we have received Mr. C. Wordsworth's 'Letter to Mr. Gladstone,' (J. H. Parker.) It appears to be a protest against the possibility of combining liberal politics with Church principles.

INDEX TO VOL. XXIII.

(NEW SERIES.)

ARTICLES AND SUBJECTS.