We do not know that the old Collegiate Church of S. Katherine which was pulled down, as we have said, in 1825, was at all worth keeping on archæological or architectural grounds; but really the authorities in the matter might do a worse thing than rebuild it in all its stateliness, and give the 'Brothers' 30,000 or 40,000 of the uncared for masses to look after, and gather their Bedesmen' and 'Bedeswomen' out of. Not that we suppose that this is likely to be done.

We must not omit to say that Mr. Lea has traced with great clearness and sufficient minuteness the eventful history of the Foundation. It may be divided into three periods. 1st. From 1148 to 1545, when it was a dignified Collegiate and Ecclesiastical Foundation of priests and choirmen, bound to worship daily in their own stately church, and supporting pensioners of both sexes, who were under a similar obligation. Then (2nd) came the period of storm and spoliation which swept over S. Katherine's as it did over other pious foundations in this land, involving them all in a common wreck; and (3rd) the secular period. The institution emerged from the spoliation it underwent with the whole of its distinctive character shorn away, and became in practice a secular sinecure, retaining the marks of what it was, yet wholly without tangible purpose or raison d'être, further than to provide a piece of Court patronage. To what a degree it had withered and dwarfed under the disastrous influences of idleness and uselessness may be seen from the ease with which it was uprooted in 1825. Had it been a living and vigorous tree it would not have been torn up so easily; but since it was barren and useless it was as well in Regent's Park as anywhere else. Now, by Her Majesty's appointment of a clergyman as Head of the Chapter, there is hope of its becoming a reality, and making for itself an appreciable sphere of influence once more. We are sure Mr. Lea's volume will be welcome to all who wish well to the Foundation.

Samuel Johnson. By LESLIE STEPHEN. (Macmillan and Co.) Walter Scott. By R. H. HUTTON. (Macmillan and Co.) Gibbon. By J. C. MORISON. (Macmillan and Co.)

THESE are all that we have seen of a series (projected by Messrs. Macmillan) of short books of English men of letters, and if the rest be equally well executed with those before us, the series will be a great success. We heartily commend these vivid and interesting sketches to all our readers. For fulness and accuracy of information and for soundness of criticism they are equally commendable. Our Church and Our Country. By the Rev. G. VENABLES. (Wells Gardner, London.)

THIS is a sketch of the history of the Church of England down to the current year, intended for and dedicated to the working men of England. We only wish that every layman, working man or other, could be compelled to make himself acquainted with its admirable summary of the facts which every churchman ought to know. The fact that it is now in its fifth edition shows that it has been appreciated, and will no doubt encourage the Clergy to introduce it largely into their parochial libraries, especially in towns.

The Fathers for English Readers. (S.P.C.K.)

FOUR volumes of this series are now before us. They deal with (1) The Apostolic Fathers; (2) The Apologists; (3) S. Jerome ; (4) S. Augustine. They are all by different but very competent hands, and give full and readable accounts of the writers with whom they deal, their works, and likewise of the circumstances of the times in which they lived. For the vast majority of persons the best introduction to history is through biography; and we can heartily commend this attempt to popularise a real and living acquaintance with the history of the early Church.

An Elder Sister: A Short Sketch of Anne Mackenzie and Her Brother, the Missionary Bishop. By FRANCES AWDRY. (Bemrose, London.)

A MOST vivid account of Bishop Mackenzie's short but remarkable career, and of the part borne in it by the elder sister, who, in her way, deserves to be remembered to the full as much as her brother. It is a story of much trial and endurance, and makes one feel that, however largely luxury and indifference may abound, still the present age is not without its witnesses for better things. We hope that the book may be widely read, and that it may do its part in keeping up the tone of true self-devotion in the religion of our times.

St. Francis of Sales, of the Love of God. (Rivingtons, London.) WE lose no time in making known to our readers this very good translation of a very lovely and charming book. It forms one of Messrs. Rivingtons' Library of Scriptural Works for English Catholics, and is beautifully printed.

The Guide of Life. A Manual of Prayers for Women. By C. E. SKINNER. (Rivingtons.)

CLERGYMEN will be glad to know of this little manual as one which they may most safely put into the hands of intelligent women of the better class of those who have to work for their living. It is very complete in its scope, and it is not only a manual of devotions, but is really what it is entitled 'a guide of life,' and is evidently the work of one who thoroughly understands the needs and the trials of the important class for which it is intended.

Mr. F. Atkinson's Resurrection and other Poems. (Skeffington and Son.)

A VOLUME of graceful, devotional, and meditative poetry which in this prosaic and busy age demands a respectful and grateful acknowledgment.

Origen the Preacher; being Fifty Short Sermon Notes founded upon Select Passages from his Writings. By JOHN M. ASHLEY, B.C.L., Vicar of Fewston. London: J. F. Hayes.

VERSIONS of a version are these scraps of homiletic matter which

Mr. Ashley has here given to his readers; for most of Origen's Homilies exist only in the Latin versions of Ruffinus, Jerome, and other unknown translators; and the Greek originals have perished. If there remains any brilliancy in the thoughts, any elegance in the metaphors, here presented to us, after having thus been twice through the ordeal of translation, it is no small testimony to the splendour and insight of the writer's genius; and this they unquestionably do retain. For these fragments of sermons we can commend Mr. Ashley's book. The biographical notice prefixed seems to us too brief and general to call for serious criticism.

Pamphlets, &c. Of recent Pamphlets we would specially mention the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER'S valuable and well-considered Charge to his Cathedral Chapter and his Diocese; Archdeacon Hessey's Charge, which sums up all the arguments for a Diocesan Conference; the BISHOP OF LINCOLN'S Letter to Sir G. Prevost on Sisterhoods and Vows, in which the history of the subject is carefully considered; MR. T. T. CARTER'S Present Movement, a true Phase of Anglo-Catholic Church Principles, wherein, in the form of a letter to the Primate, the author certainly has issued a most powerful defence of his position; as also the same writer's Are Vows of Celibacy in Early Life inconsistent with the Word of God? written in reference to the abovenamed letter of the Bishop of Lincoln. In this pamphlet Mr. Carter shows that dedication to a life of celibacy was one thing and enrolment as a 'Church widow' quite another: that both were clearly recognized in Scripture and the primitive Church, and that such dedication was then held to be binding. MR. E. F. WILLIS' Sacrificial Aspect of the Eucharist-clear, well-arranged and to all candid minds convincing; a very interesting Sermon of DEAN SCOTT'S (of Rochester) on the occasion of the Eight Hundredth Anniversary of the Foundation of Bishop Gundulph's Hospital; and lastly, we name as a pamphlet to be kept among the records of the year, The Episcopal Letter and Reports of Committees, published (Cassell and Co.) under the authority of the members of the Pan-Anglican Conference.

ON THE ALTERATION OF A LINE IN THE
CHRISTIAN YEAR.

To the Editor of THE CHURCH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

SIR,-Absence from England, and other circumstances, prevented my seeing or hearing of the last number of the Church Quarterly till to-day, and I write at once, hoping to be yet in time for this month's issue, a word in reply to Dr. Pusey's remark (p. 542) to the effect that, after all I cannot understand to what end all this fuss made by Professor Burrows and Dean Burgon, if they hold at all by the early Church or the Council of Nice.' As far as I am concerned, I have nothing to do with the questions arising out of the

alteration of the line in the Christian Year, however unfortunate and misleading I may think it. If the Dean of Chichester sees Dr. Pusey's letter, and thinks himself called upon to deal with it, no doubt he will do so. All that I said in The Times was that the subscriptions to Keble College stopped about the time of that alteration.

Whatever 'fuss' I have been guilty of making was in connection with my caution against Keble-worship,' founded upon the difference of tone and teaching traceable in the earlier and later periods of that remarkable man's life. This Dr. Pusey called in the Guardian setting up an‘imaginary Keble.' I am spared the necessity of enlarging on this point by the recorded words of Mr. Keble himself, to be found in Sir John Coleridge's 'Life,' p. 282, of the first edition; and the quotation of these will, I hope, absolve me from the charge of making a ́ fuss.’

Sir John, in 1845, had written to his friend on the subject of the Lyra Innocentium, remarking on the 'difference of tone' between it and the Christian Year, to which Mr. Keble writes as follows :—

'When I wrote that [the Christian Year] I did not understand (to mention no more points) either the doctrine of Repentance, or that of the Holy Eucharist, as held, e.g., by Bishop Ken, nor that of Justification, and such points as those must surely make a great difference.'

I will venture to ask whether it is possible to possess more absolutely complete testimony than this to the difference between the 'earlier and later John Keble,' and, still further, whether those who, delighting in the Christian Year, yet believe that the subsequent 'understanding' of the doctrines mentioned was a retrograde, instead of an 'advanced' movement, are not justified in the protests they have made against being called upon to swallow down, on the strength of the well-deserved reputation Keble acquired from his one great work, all that he subsequently wrote? Your readers will judge. I am, Sir, yours faithfully,

Oxford: October 3, 1878.

MONTAGU BURROWS.

[This Correspondence is now absolutely closed.—Ed. C. Q. R.]

CORRECTION.

We have been requested by the Marchese Vitelleschi to state that it was he, and not the Cardinal Vitelleschi, as stated in our last Number, who wrote under the nom de plume of Pomponio Leto. He likewise requests us to add that the Cardinal was not aware of the existence of the book until some time after its publication, and communicated no materials for it.

THE

CHURCH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

NO XIV. JANUARY 1879.

ART. I.—IS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
PROTESTANT?

1. The Quarterly Review. No. 292. (London: October, 1878.) 2. Pastoral Letter to the Diocese of Rochester, from A. W.

THOROLD, D.D., Ninety-eighth Bishop. (London, 1878.) 3. The Coronation Service, according to the Use of the Church of England. Edited by JOHN FULLER RUSSELL, B.C.L., F.S.A. (London, 1875.)

THE sophistical trick commonly known as the 'ambiguous middle term' underlies all that stands for reasoning in an article in the Quarterly Review for October 1878, entitled 'Is the Church of England Protestant?' The evident intention of the writer is to write the history of the great 'Anglican Church' in convenient oblivion of that historical continuity, in virtue of which, to use the words of the Low Church Ninety-eighth Bishop of Rochester,' though Reformed, she is Catholic, and dates her birth, not from Henry VIII., but from a pure mother in a far back time.' Contrariwise, with the Quarterly Reviewer, Henry VIII. and his New Learning are paraded as if they were all in all, and the legacy from the 'far back time' is contemptuously left matter of precarious favour and concession, revocable at pleasure, and just now more than desirable to be revoked. As a rule, this view, though not without adherents, has been confined, at any rate since the Restoration, to the less cultured members of the Evangelical party, who have been reared in a narrow groove of sectional tradition, and are fully persuaded that any doctrine or usage which happens to be unfamiliar to