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Catalogue.A SELECTION FROM THEBOOKSPUBLISHED DURING 1869, 1870, 1871, AND 1872, BYMessrs.RIVINGTON,HIGH STREET, OXFORD; TRINITY STREET, CAMBRIDGE;WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON.THE BOOK OF CHURCH LAW.Being an exposition of the Legal Rights and Duties of the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England. By theRev.John Henry Blunt,M.A.,F.S.A.Revised byWalter G. F. Phillimore, B.C.L., Barrister-at-Law, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.“We have tested this work on various points of a crucial character, and have found it very accurate and full in its information. It embodies the results of the most recent acts of the Legislature on the clerical profession and the rights of the laity.”——Standard.“Already in our leading columns we have directed attention toMessrs.Blunt and Phillimore’s ‘Book of Church Law,’ as an excellent manual for ordinary use. It is a book which should stand on every clergyman’s shelves ready for use when any legal matter arises about which its possessor is in doubt.... It is to be hoped that the authorities at our Theological Colleges sufficiently recognize the value of a little legal knowledge on the part of the clergy to recommend this book to their students. It would serve admirably as the text-book for a set of lectures, and we trust we shall hear that its publication has done something to encourage the younger clergy to make themselves masters of at least the general outlines of Ecclesiastical Law, as it relates to the Church of England.”——Church Times.“There is a copious index, and the whole volume forms a Handy-book of Church Law down to the present time, which, if found on the library shelves of most of the clergy, would often save them from much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and expense.”——National Church.THOUGHTS ON PERSONAL RELIGION;being a Treatise on the Christian Life in its Two Chief Elements, Devotion and Practice. ByEdward Meyrick Goulburn,D.D., Dean of Norwich. New Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.6d.An Edition for Presentation, Two Volumes, small 8vo. 10s.6d.Also, a cheap Edition. Small 8vo. 3s.6d.THE PURSUIT OF HOLINESS: a Sequel to “Thoughts on Personal Religion,” intended to carry the Reader somewhat farther onward in the Spiritual Life. ByEdward Meyrick Goulburn,D.D., Dean of Norwich, and formerly one of Her Majesty’s Chaplains in Ordinary. Fourth Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.THE STAR OF CHILDHOOD.A First Book of Prayers and Instruction for Children. Compiled by a Priest. Edited by theRev.T. T. Carter,M.A., Rector of Clewer, Berks. With Six Illustrations, reduced from Engravings byFra Angelico. Royal 16mo. 2s.6d.“All the Instructions, all of the Hymns, and most of the Prayers here are excellent. And when we use the cautionary expression ‘most of the,’&c., we do not mean to imply that all the prayers are not excellent in themselves, but only to express a doubt whether in some cases they may not be a little too elaborate for children. Of course it by no means follows that when you use a book you are to use equally every portion of it: what does not suit one may suit a score of others, and this book is clearly compiled on thecomprehensiveprinciple. But to give a veracious verdict on the book it is needful to mention this. We need hardly say that it is well worth buying, and of a very high order of merit.”——Literary Churchman.“Messrs.Rivington have sent us a manual of prayers for children, called ‘The Star of Childhood,’ edited by theRev.T. T. Carter, a very full collection, including instruction as well as devotion, and a judicious selection of hymns.”——Church Review.“TheRev.T. T. Carter, of Clewer, has put forth a much needed and excellent book of devotions for little children, called ‘The Star of Childhood.’ We think it fair to tell our readers, that in it they will find that for children who have lost a near relative a short commemorative prayer is provided; but we most earnestly hope that even by those who are not willing to accept this usage, the book will not be rejected, for it is a most valuable one.”——Monthly Packet.“One amongst the books before us deserves especial notice, entitled ‘The Star of Childhood,’ and edited by theRev.T. T. Carter: it is eminently adapted for a New Year’s Gift. It is a manual of prayer for children, with hymns, litanies, and instructions. Some of the hymns are illustrative of our Lord’s life; and to these are added reduced copies from engravings of Fra Angelico.”——Penny Post.“Supposing a child to be capable of using a devotional manual, the book before us is, in its general structure, as good an attempt to meet the want as could have been put forth. In the first place it succeeds, where so many like efforts fail, in the matter of simplicity. The language is quite within the compass of a young child; that is to say, it is such as a young child can be made to understand; for we do not suppose that the book is intended to be put directly into his hands, but through the hands of an instructor.”——Church Bells.“To the same hand which gave us the ‘Treasury of Devotion’ we are indebted for this beautiful little manual for children. Beginning with prayers suited to the comprehension of the youngest, it contains devotions, litanies, hymns, and instructions, carefully proportioned to the gradually increasing powers of a child’s mind from the earliest years, until confirmation. This little book cannot fail to influence for good the impressible hearts of children, and we hope that ere long it will be in the hands of all those who are blessed with Catholic-minded parents. It is beautifully got up, and is rendered more attractive by the capital engravings of Fra Angelico’s pictures of scenes of our Lord’s childhood. God-parents could scarcely find a more appropriate gift for their God-children than this, or one that is more likely to lead them to a knowledge of the truth.”——Church Union Gazette.“‘The Star of Childhood’ is a first book of Prayers and instruction for children, compiled by a Priest, and edited by theRev.T. T. Carter, rector of Clever. It is a very careful compilation, and the name of its editor is a warrant for its devotional tone.”——Guardian.“A handsomely got up and attractive volume, with several good illustrations from Fra Angelico’s most famous paintings.”——Union Review.BY THE SAME COMPILER AND EDITOR.THE TREASURY OF DEVOTION: A Manual pf Prayers for General and Daily Use. Sixth Edition. Imperial 32mo, 2s.6d.; limp cloth, 2s.Bound with the Book of Common Prayer, 3s.6d.THE WAY OF LIFE: A Book of Prayers and Instruction for the Young (at School). Imperial 32mo, 1s.6d.THE GUIDE TO HEAVEN: A Book of Prayers for every Want. For the Working Classes. New Edition. Imperial 32mo, 1s.6d.; limp cloth, 1s.The Edition in large type may still be had.Crown 8vo, 1s.6d.; limp cloth, 1s.THE PATH OF HOLINESS: A First Book of Prayers, with the Service of the Holy Communion, for the Young. With Illustrations. Crown 16mo, 1s.6d.; limp cloth, 1s.LECTURES ON THE REUNION OF THE CHURCHES.ByJohn J. Ign. Von Döllinger,D.D.,D.C.L., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Munich, Provost of the Chapel-Royal,&c.&c.Authorized Translation, with Preface byHenry Nutcombe Oxenham,M.A., late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.“... Marked by all the author’s well-known, varied learning, breadth of view, and outspoken spirit. The momentous question which the Doctor discusses has long occupied the thoughts of some of the most earnest and enlightened divines in all branches of the Christian communion, though wide apart in other points of belief and practice. On the infinite importance of reunion among Christian Churches in their endeavour to evangelize the yet remaining two-thirds of the human race——strangers to any form of Christianity——the author enlarges with power and eloquence; and this topic is one of unusual and lasting interest, though, of course, only one among♦a host of others equally important and equally well discussed.”——Standard.♦duplicated word removed “a”“In the present state of thought respecting the union of the Churches, these Lectures will be welcomed by very many persons of different schools of religious thought. They are not the hasty words of an enthusiast, but the calm, well-considered, and carefully prepared writings of one whose soul is profoundly moved by his great subject. They form a contribution to the literature of this grave question, valuable alike for its breadth of historical survey, its fairness, the due regard paid to existing obstacles, and the practical character of its suggestions.”——London Quarterly Review.BRIGHSTONE SERMONS.ByGeorge Moberly,D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.THE SAYINGS OF THE GREAT FORTY DAYS, Between the Resurrection and Ascension, regarded as the Outlines of the Kingdom of God. In Five Discourses. With an Examination ofDr.Newman’s Theory of Development. ByGeorge Moberly,D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.WARNINGS OF THE HOLY WEEK,&c.Being a Course of Parochial Lectures for the Week before Easter and the Easter Festivals. By theRev.W. Adams,M.A., late Vicar ofSt.Peter’s-in-the-East, Oxford, and Fellow of Merton College. Seventh Edition. Small 8vo. 4s.6d.SELF-RENUNCIATION.From the French. With Introduction by theRev.T. T. Carter,M.A., Rector of Clewer. Crown 8vo. 6s.“It is excessively difficult to review or criticise, in detail, a book of this kind, and yet its abounding merits, its practicalness, its searching good sense and thoroughness, and its frequent beauty, too, make us wish to do something more than announce its publication.... The style is eminently clear, free from redundance and prolixity.”——Literary Churchman.“Few save Religious and those brought into immediate contact with them are, in all probability, acquainted with the French treatise of Guilloré, a portion of which is now, for the first time we believe, done into English.... Hence the suitableness of such a book as this for those who, in the midst of their families, are endeavouring to advance in the spiritual life. Hundreds of devout souls living in the world have been encouraged and helped by such books asDr.Neale’s ‘Sermons preached in a Religious House.’ For such the present work will be found appropriate, while for Religious themselves it will be invaluable.”——Church Times.THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF.ByS. Baring-gould,M.A., Author of “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.”VolumeI.MONOTHEISM and POLYTHEISM. Second Edition. 8vo. 15s.VolumeII.CHRISTIANITY. 8vo. 15s.THE HIDDEN LIFE OF THE SOUL.From the French. By the Author of “A Dominican Artist,” “Life of Madame Louise de France,”&c.Crown 8vo. 5s.“‘The Hidden Life of the Soul,’ by the author of ‘A Dominican Artist,’ is from the writings of Father Grou, a French refugee priest of 1792, who died at Lulworth. It well deserves the character given it of being ‘earnest and sober,’ and not ‘sensational.’”——Guardian.“There is a wonderful charm about these readings——so calm, so true, so thoroughly Christian. We do not know where they would come amiss. As materials for a consecutive series of meditations for the faithful at a series of early celebrations they would be excellent, or for private reading during Advent or Lent.”——Literary Churchman.“From the French of Jean Nicolas Grou, a pious Priest, whose works teach resignation to the Divine will. He loved, we are told, to inculcate simplicity, freedom from all affectation and unreality, the patience and humility which are too surely grounded in self-knowledge to be surprised at a fall, but withal so allied to confidence in God as to make recovery easy and sure. This is the spirit of the volume which is intended to furnish advice to those who would cultivate a quiet, meek, and childlike spirit.”——Public Opinion.A DOMINICAN ARTIST; a Sketch of the Life of theRev.Père Besson, of the Order ofSt.Dominic. By the Author of the “The Tales of Kirkbeck,” “The Life of Madame Louise de France,”&c.New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.“The author of the Life of Père Besson writes with a grace and refinement of devotional feeling peculiarly suited to a subject-matter which suffers beyond most others from any coarseness of touch. It would be difficult to find ‘the simplicity and purity of a holy life’ more exquisitely illustrated than in Father Besson’s career, both before and after his joining the Dominican Order under the auspices of Lacordaire.... Certainly we have never come across what could more strictly be termed in the truest sense ‘the life of a beautiful soul.’ The author has done well in presenting to English readers this singularly graceful biography, in which all who can appreciate genuine simplicity and nobleness of Christian character will find to admire and little or nothing to condemn.”——Saturday Review.“It would indeed have been a deplorable omission had so exquisite a biography been by any neglect lost to English readers, and had character so perfect in its simple and complete devotion been withheld from our admiration.... But we have dwelt too long already on this fascinating book, and must now leave it to our readers.”——Literary Churchman.“A beautiful and most interesting sketch of the late Père Besson, an artist who forsook the easel for the altar.”——Church Times.“A book which is as pleasant for reading as it is profitable for meditation.”——Union Review.“Whatever a reader may think of Père Besson’s profession as a monk, no one will doubt his goodness; no one can fail to profit who will patiently read his life, as here written by a friend, whose sole defect is in being slightly unctuous.”——Athenæum.“The life of theRev.Père Besson, who gave up an artist’s career, to which he was devotedly attached, and a mother whose affection for him is not inaptly likened to that of Monica forSt.Augustine, must be read in its entirety to be rightly appreciated. And the whole tenour of the book is too devotional, too full of expressions of the most touching dependence on God, to make criticism possible, even if it was called for, which it is not.”——John Bull.“The story of Père Besson’s life is one of much interest, and told with simplicity, candour, and good feeling.”——Spectator.“A beautiful book, describing the most saintly and very individual life of one of the companions of Lacordaire.”——Monthly Packet.“We strongly recommend it to our readers. It is a charming biography, that will delight and edify both old and young.”——Westminster Gazette.THE LIFE OF MADAME LOUISE DE FRANCE, daughter of LouisXV.Known also as the Mother Térèse deSt.Augustine. By the Author of “Tales of Kirkbeck.” Crown 8vo. 6s.“On the15thof July 1737, Marie Leczinska, the wife of LouisXV., and daughter of the dethroned King of Poland, which Prussia helped to despoil and plunder, gave birth to her eighth female child, Louise Marie, known also as the Mother Térèse deSt.Augustin. On the death of the Queen, the princess, who had long felt a vocation for a religious life, obtained the consent of her royal father to withdraw from the world. The Carmelite convent ofSt.Denis was the chosen place of retreat. Here the novitiate was passed, here the final vows were taken, and here, on the death of the Mère Julie, Madame Louise began and terminated her experiences as prioress. The little volume which records the simple incidents of her pious seclusion is designed to edify those members of the Church of England in whom the spirit of religious self-devotion is reviving.”——Westminster Review.“The annals of a cloistered life, under ordinary circumstances, would not probably be considered very edifying by the reading public of the present generation. When, however, such a history presents the novel spectacle of a royal princess of modern times voluntarily renouncing her high position and the splendours of a court existence, for the purpose of enduring the asceticism, poverty, and austerities of a severe monastic rule, the case may well be different.”——Morning Post.HENRI PERREYVE.ByA. Gratry, Prêtre de l’Oratoire, Professeur de Morale Evangélique à la Sorbonne, et Membre de l’Académie Française. Translated, by special permission, by the Author of “A Dominican Artist,” “Life ofS.Francis de Sales,”&c.,&c.With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.“... A most touching and powerful piece of biography, interspersed with profound reflections on personal religion, and on the prospects of Christianity.... For priests this book is a treasure. The moral of it is the absolute necessity of ‘recollectedness’ to the higher, and especially the true priestly life.”——Church Review.“The works of the translator of Henri Perreyve♦from, for the most part, a series of saintly biographies which have obtained a larger share of popularity than is generally accorded to books of this description.... The description of his last days will probably be read with greater interest than any other part of the book; presenting as it does an example of fortitude under suffering, and resignation, when cutoff so soon after entering upon a much-coveted and useful career, of rare occurrence in this age of self-assertion. This is, in fact, the essential teaching of the entire volume.... The translator of the Abbé Gratry’s work has done well in giving English readers an opportunity of profiting by its lessons.”——Morning Post.♦“form” replaced with “from”“Those who take a pleasure in reading a beautiful account of a beautiful character would do well to procure the Life of ‘Henri Perreyve.’... We would especially recommend the book for the perusal of English priests, who may learn many a holy lesson from the devoted spirit in which the subject of the memoir gave himself up to the duties of his sacred office, and to this cultivation of the graces with which he was endowed.”——Church Times.“It is easy to see that Henri Perreyve, Professor of Moral Theology at the Sorbonne, was a Roman Catholic priest of no ordinary type. With comparatively little of what Protestants call superstition, with great courage and sincerity, with a nature singularly guileless and noble, his priestly vocation, although pursued, according to his biographer, with unbridled zeal, did not stifle his human sympathies and aspirations. He could not believe that his faith compelled him ‘to renounce sense and reason,’ or that a priest was not free to speak, act, and think like other men. Indeed, the Abbé Gratry makes a kind of apology for his friend’s free-speaking in this respect, and endeavours to explain it. Perreyve was the beloved disciple of Lacordaire, who left him all his manuscripts, notes, and papers, and he himself attained the position of a great pulpit orator.”——Pall Mall Gazette.THE LAST DAYS OF PÈRE GRATRY.ByPere Adolphe Perraud, of the Oratory, and Professor of La Sorbonne. Translated by special permission. Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.S.FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA.By the Author of “A Dominican Artist,” “Life of Madame Louise de France,”&c.,&c.Crown 8vo. 9s.“It is written with the delicacy, freshness, and absence of all affectation which characterised the former works by the same hand, and which render these books so very much more pleasant reading than are religious biographies in general. The character ofS.Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, is a charming one; a more simple, pure, and pious life it would be difficult to conceive. His unaffected humility, his freedom from dogmatism in an age when dogma was placed above religion, his freedom from bigotry in an age of persecution, were alike admirable.”——Standard.“The author of ‘A Dominican Artist,’ in writing this new life of the wise and loving Bishop and Prince of Geneva, has aimed less at historical or ecclesiastical investigation than at a vivid and natural representation of the inner mind and life of the subject of his biography, as it can be traced in his own writings and in those of his most intimate and affectionate friends. The book is written with the grave and quiet grace which characterises the productions of its author, and cannot fail to please those readers who can sympathise with all forms of goodness and devotion to noble purpose.”——Westminster Review.“A book which contains the record of a life as sweet, pure, and noble as any man by divine help, granted to devout sincerity of soul, has been permitted to live upon earth. The example of this gentle but resolute and energetic spirit, wholly dedicated to the highest conceivable good, offering itself, with all the temporal uses of mental existence, to the service of infinite and eternal beneficence, is extremely touching.... It is a book worthy of acceptance.”——Daily News.“It is not a translation or adaptation, but an original work, and a very charming portrait of one of the most winning characters in the long gallery of Saints. And it is a matter of thankfulness to us to find a distinctively Anglican writer setting forward the good Bishop’s work among Protestants, as a true missionary task to reclaim souls from deadly error, and bring them back to the truth.”——Union Review.THE SPIRIT OFS.FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA.Translated from the French by the Author of “The Life ofS.Francis de Sales,” “A Dominican Artist,”&c.,&c.Crown 8vo. 6s.A SELECTION FROM THE SPIRITUAL LETTERS OFS.FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA.Translated by the Author of “Life ofS.Francis de Sales,” “A Dominican Artist,”&c.,&c.Crown 8vo. 6s.“It is a collection of epistolary correspondence of rare interest and excellence. With those who have read the Life, there cannot but have been a strong desire to know more of so beautiful a character asS.Francis de Sales. He was a model of Christian saintliness and religious virtue for all time, and one everything relating to whom, so great were the accomplishments of his mind as well as the devotion of his heart, has a charm which delights, instructs, and elevates.”—Church Herald.“A few months back we had the pleasure of welcoming the Life ofS.Francis de Sales. Here is the promised sequel:—the ‘Selection from his Spiritual Letters’ then announced:—and a great boon it will be to many. The Letters are addressed to people of all sorts:—to men and to women:—to laity and to ecclesiastics, to people living in the world, or at court, and to the inmates of Religious Houses. And what an idea it gives one of the widely ramifying influence of one good man and of the untiring diligence of a man, who in spite of all his external duties, could find or make the time for all these letters. We hope that with our readers it may be totally needless to urge such a volume on their notice.”—Literary Churchman.CONSOLATIO; or, Comfort for the Afflicted. Edited by theRev.C. E. Kennaway. With a Preface bySamuel Wilberforce,D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s.6d.“A charming collection from the best writers of passages suitable in seasons of sickness and afflictions.”—Church Review.“A very valuable collection of extracts from writers of every school. The volume is an elegant one.”—Church Times.“A very useful collection of devotional extracts from the histories of good men of very various schools of thought.”—John Bull.“We are bound to admire the extreme beauty and the warm devotion of the majority of passages here collected to smooth the soul that sorrows, even though penned by men from whom we differ so much in doctrine.”—Rock.“A work which we feel sure will find a welcome and also prove a soothing guest in the chamber of many an invalid.”—Record.A BOOK OF FAMILY PRAYER.Compiled byWalter Farquhar Hook,D.D., Dean of Chichester. Eighth Edition. 18mo. 2s.FAMILY PRAYERS.Compiled from various Sources (chiefly from Bishop Hamilton’s Manual), and arranged on the Liturgical Principle. ByEdward Meyrick Goulburn,D.D., Dean of Norwich. New Edition. Large type. Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.Cheap Edition, 16mo. 1s.A MANUAL OF CONFIRMATION, Comprising—1. A General Account of the Ordinance. 2. The Baptismal Vow, and the English Order of Confirmation, with Short Notes, Critical and Devotional. 3. Meditations and Prayers on Passages of Holy Scripture, in connexion with the Ordinance. With a Pastoral Letter instructing Catechumens how to prepare themselves for their first Communion. ByEdward Meyrick Goulburn,D.D., Dean of Norwich. Ninth Edition. Small 8vo. 1s.6d.DIRECTORIUM PASTORALE.The Principles and Practice of Pastoral Work in the Church of England. By theRev.John Henry Blunt,M.A.,F.S.A., Editor of “The Annotated Book of Common Prayer,”&c.&c.Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.“This is the third edition of a work which has become deservedly popular as the best extant exposition of the principles and practice of the pastoral work in the Church of England. Its hints and suggestions are based on practical experience, and it is further recommended by the majority of our Bishops at the ordination of priests and deacons.”—Standard.“Its practical usefulness to the parochial clergy is proved by the acceptance it has already received at their hands, and no faithful parish priest, who is working in real earnest for the extension of spiritual instruction amongst all classes of his flock will rise from the perusal of its pages without having obtained some valuable hints as to the best mode of bringing home our Church’s system to the hearts of his people.”—National Church.THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS.Translated into English, with an Introduction and Notes. ByCharles H. Hoole,M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Small 8vo. 4s.6d.HYMNS AND POEMS FOR THE SICK AND SUFFERING.In connexion with the Service for the Visitation of the Sick. Selected from various Authors. Edited byT. V. Fosbery,M.A., Vicar ofSt.Giles’s, Reading. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s.6d.THE “DAMNATORY CLAUSES” OF THE ATHANASIAN CREED RATIONALLY EXPLAINED, IN A LETTER TO THE RIGHTHON.W. E. GLADSTONE,M.P.By theRev.Malcolm Maccoll,M.A., Rector ofSt.George, Botolph Lane. Crown 8vo. 6s.A GLOSSARY OF ECCLESIASTICAL TERMS.Containing Brief Explanations of Words used in Theology, Liturgiology, Chronology, Law, Architecture, Antiquities, Symbolism, Greek Hierology and Mediæval Latin; together with some account of Titles of our Lord, Emblems of Saints, Hymns, Orders, Heresies, Ornaments, Offices, Vestments and Ceremonial, and Miscellaneous Subjects. By Various Writers. Edited by theRev.Orby Shipley,M.A.Crown 8vo. 18s.ANCIENT HYMNS.From the Roman Breviary. For Domestic Use every Morning and Evening of the Week, and on the Holy Days of the Church. To which are added, Original Hymns, principally of Commemoration and Thanksgiving for Christ’s Holy Ordinances. ByRichard Mant,D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. New Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.“Real poetry wedded to words that breathe the purest and the sweetest spirit of Christian devotion. The translation from the old Latin Hymnal are close and faithful renderings.”—Standard.“As a Hymn writer Bishop Mant deservedly occupies a prominent place in the esteem of Churchmen, and we doubt not that many will be the readers who will welcome this new edition of his translations and original compositions.”—English Churchman.“A new edition of Bishop Mant’s ‘Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary’ forms a handsome little volume, and it is interesting to compare some of these translations with the more modern ones of our own day. While we have no hesitation in awarding the palm to the latter, the former are an evidence of the earliest germs of that yearning of the devout mind for something better than Tate and Brady, and which know so richly supplied.”—Church Times.“This valuable manual will be of great assistance to all compilers of Hymn-Books. The translations are graceful, clear, and forcible, and the original hymns deserve the highest praise. Bishop Mant has caught the very spirit of true psalmody, his metre flows musically, and there is a tuneful ring in his verses which especially adapts them for congregational singing.”—Rock.YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER: A Poem in Twelve Books. ByE. H. Bickersteth,M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead. Seventh Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.“The most simple, the richest, and the most perfect sacred poem which recent days have produced.”—Morning Advertiser.“A poem worth reading, worthy of attentive study; full of noble thoughts, beautiful diction, and high imagination.”—Standard.“Mr.Bickersteth writes like a man who cultivates at once reverence and earnestness of thought.”—Guardian.“In these light miscellany days there is a spiritual refreshment in the spectacle of man girding up the loins of his mind to the task of producing a genuine epic. And it is true poetry. There is a definiteness, a crispness about it, which in these moist, viewy, hazy days♦is no less invigorating than novel.”—Edinburgh Daily Review.♦“in” replaced with “is”THE TWO BROTHERS, and other Poems. ByEdward Henry Bickersteth,M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Ripon, Author of “Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever.” Second Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.A HANDY BOOK OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL DILAPIDATIONS ACT, 1871.With the Amendment Act, 1872. With Remarks on the Qualification and Practice of Diocesan Surveyors. ByEdward G. Bruton,F.R.I.B.A., and Diocesan Surveyor, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.STONES OF THE TEMPLE; OR, LESSONS FROM THE FABRIC AND FURNITURE OF THE CHURCH.ByWalter Field,M.A.,F.S.A., Vicar of Godmersham. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.“Anyone who wishes for simple information on the subjects of Church-architecture and furniture, cannot do better than consult ‘Stones of the Temple.’Mr.Field modestly disclaims any intention of supplanting the existing regular treatises, but his book shows an amount of research, and a knowledge of what he is talking about, which make it practically useful as well as pleasant. The wood-cuts are numerous and some of them very pretty.”—Graphic.“A very charming book, by theRev.Walter Field, who was for years Secretary of one of the leading Church Societies. Mr. Field has a loving reverence for the beauty of the domus mansionalis Dei, as the old law books called the Parish Church.... Thoroughly sound in Church feeling, Mr. Field has chosen the medium of a tale to embody real incidents illustrative of the various portions of his subject. There is no attempt at elaboration of the narrative, which, indeed, is rather a string of anecdotes than a story, but each chapter brings home to the mind its own lesson, and each is illustrated with some very interesting engravings.... The work will properly command a hearty reception from Churchmen. The footnotes are occasionally most valuable, and are always pertinent, and the text is sure to be popular with young folks for Sunday reading.”—Standard.“Mr.Field’s chapters on brasses, chancel screens, crosses, encaustic tiles, mural paintings, porches and pavements, are agreeably written, and people with a turn for Ritualism will no doubt find them edifying. The volume, as we have said, is not without significance for readers who are unable to sympathize with the object of the writer. The illustrations of Church-architecture and Church ornaments are very attractive.”—Pall Mall Gazette.A SHADOW OF DANTE.Being an Essay towards Studying Himself, his World, and his Pilgrimage. ByMaria Francesca Rossetti. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 10s.6d.“The ‘Shadow of Dante’ is a well-conceived and inviting volume, designed to recommend the ‘Divina Commedia’ to English readers, and to facilitate the study and comprehension of its contents.”—Athrnæum.“And it is in itself a true work of art, a whole finely conceived, and carried out with sustained power,—one of those reproductions and adumbrations of great works, in which mere servile copying disappears, and which are only possible to a mind which, however inferior to its original, is yet of the same order and temperament, with an unusual faculty for taking the impressions of that original and reflecting them undimmed. It is much to say of a volume like this. But it is not too much to say, when, after going through it, we consider the thorough knowledge of the subject shown in it, the patient skill with which the intricate and puzzling arrangements of the poem, full of what we call the conceits and puzzles of the contemporary philosophy, are unravelled and made intelligible; the discrimination and high principle with which so ardent a lover of the great poet blames his excesses; the high and noble Christian faith which responds to his; and, lastly, the gift of eloquent speech, keen, rich, condensed, expressive, which seems to have passed into the writer from the loving study of the greatest master in his own tongue of all the inimitable harmonies of language—the tenderest, the deepest, the most awful.”—Guardian.“The work introduces us not merely to the author’s life and the political and ecclesiastical conjunctures under which he lived, but to the outlines of the Catholicised systems of ethics, astronomy, and geography which he interpreted in classifying his spirits and assigning them their dwellings; as also to the drift of his leading allegories; and finally, to the general conduct of his poem—which is amply illustrated by citations from the most literal verse translations. We find the volume furnished with useful diagrams of the Dantesque universe, of Hell, Purgatory, and the ‘Rose of the Blessed,’ and adorned with a beautiful group of the likenesses of the poet, and with symbolic figures (on the binding) in which the taste and execution ofMr.D. G. Rossetti will be recognised. The exposition appears to us remarkably well arranged and digested; the author’s appreciation of Dante’s religious sentiments and opinions is peculiarly hearty, and her style refreshingly independent and original.”—Pall Mall Gazette.“It bears traces throughout of having been due to a patient, loving and appreciative study of the great poet, as he is exhibited, not merely in the ‘Divina Commedia,’ but in his other writings. The result has been a book which is not only delightful in itself to read, but is admirably adapted as an encouragement to those students who wish to obtain a preliminary survey of the land before they attempt to follow Dante through his long and arduous pilgrimage. Of all poets Dante stands most in need of such assistance as this book offers.”—Saturday Review.PARISH MUSINGS; OR, DEVOTIONAL POEMS.ByJohn S. B. Monsell,LL.D., Rural Dean, and Rector ofSt.Nicholas, Guildford. Fine Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.Cheap Edition, 18mo, limp cloth, 1s.6d.; or in Cover, 1s.THE LIFE OF JUSTIFICATION.A Series of Lectures delivered in Substance at All Saints’, Margaret Street, in Lent, 1870. By theRev.George Body,B.A., Rector of Kirkby Misperton. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 4s.6d.“On the whole we have rarely met with a more clear, intelligible and persuasive statement of the truth as regards the important topics on which the volume treats. SermonII.in particular, will strike every one by its eloquence and beauty, but we scarcely like to specify it, lest in praising it we should seem to disparage the other portions of this admirable little work.”—Church Times.“These discourses show that their author’s position is due to something more and higher than mere fluency, gesticulation, and flexibility of voice. He appears as having drunk deeply at the fountain ofSt.Augustine, and as understanding how to translate the burning words of that mighty genius into the current language of to-day.”—Union Review.“There is real power in these sermons:—power, real power, and plenty of it.... There is such a moral veraciousness about him, such a profound and over-mastering belief that Christ has proved a bona-fide cure for unholiness, and such an intensity of eagerness to lead others to seek and profit by that means of attaining the true sanctity which alone can enter Heaven—that we wonder not at the crowds which hang upon his preaching, nor at the success of his fervid appeals to the human conscience. If any one doubts our verdict, let him buy this volume. No one will regret its perusal.”—Literary Churchman.SERMONS ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS.ByDaniel Moore,M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Paddington; Author of Hulsean Lectures on “The Age and the Gospel,” “Aids to Prayer,”&c.Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.“We do not wonder atMr.Moore’s long continued popularity with so many hearers; there is so much painstaking and so much genuine desire to discharge his duty as a preacher visible through all the volume. What we miss is the deeper theology, and the spontaneous flow of teaching as from a spring which cannot help flowing, which some of our preachers happily exhibit. But the Sermons may be recommended, or we would not notice them.”—Literary Churchman.“Rarely have we met with a better volume of Sermons.... Orthodox, affectionate, and earnest, these Sermons exhibit at the same time much research, and are distinguished by an elegance and finish of style often wanting in these days of rapid writing and continual preaching.”—John Bull.“Sermons like those ofMr.Moore are, however, still of comparative rarity—sermons in which we meet with doctrine which cannot be gainsaid; with a knowledge of the peculiar circumstances of his hearers, which nothing but accurate observation and long experience can secure, and a peculiar felicity of style which many will envy, but to which it is the lot of few to attain.”—Christian Observer.“We have had real pleasure, however, in reading these sermons. Here are most of the elements of a preacher’s power and usefulness: skilful arrangement of the subject, admirable clearness of style, earnestness, both of thought and language, and the prime qualification of all, ‘in doctrine, uncorruptness.’”—London Quarterly Review.THE KNIGHT OF INTERCESSION, AND OTHER POEMS.By theRev.S. J. Stone,M.A., Pembroke College, Oxford. Second Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.“Mr.Stone has now given to the public a collection of poems, widely different in form, which enable us to measure more accurately his powers, not merely as a hymnist, but as a poet; and though we would not injure a growing reputation by overstating his merits, yet we can safely say that his volume contains much genuine poetry which will be read with unqualified pleasure.... It would be ungrateful of us to put down this volume without expressing the great pleasure it has afforded us, and our high appreciation of the valuable services which its author is rendering to the Church.”—Church Bells.“... We all know him so well as the author of the beautiful processional hymn ‘The Church’s One Foundation,’ the Lenten hymn ‘Weary of Earth,’ and other favourites, that we were fully prepared for the pleasure that awaited us in perusing this volume.”—Church Opinion.“The extracts we have thus given, differing as they do alike in subject and in style, present fair specimens of the varied interest of the volume, and of the poetic powers of its author. Most of our readers, we think, will agree with us that the publication is well-timed, and that it has much in it that is both pleasant and profitable reading.”—Church Herald.“In the ‘Knight of Intercession’ and other poems we have the outpourings of a pure and devotional spirit, in language of unassuming and yet genuine poetry, rising at times, naturally and without effort, to a quiet but real beauty.”—Scotsman.“Mr.Stone, it is clear, has studied all the best models, and has been influenced by them; but he maintains through all a distinctly individual note, and gives us real music.... There are true touches in the Idylls, and some of the poems on pictures are remarkably expressive and skilful, though nothing is more difficult than the proper working out of such themes. We like some of the sonnets—some of them are exceptionally sweet and finished.”—Nonconformist.THE ANNUAL REGISTER: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad, for the Year 1872. 8vo. 18s.⁂All the Volumes of the New Series from 1863 to 1872 may be had, 18s.each.“Well edited, excellent type, good paper, and in all respects admirably got up. Its review of affairs, Home, Colonial, and Foreign, it fair, concise, and complete.”—Mining Quarterly.“Solidly valuable, as well as interesting.”—Standard.“Comprehensive and well executed.”—Spectator.“The whole work being well-written, and compiled with care and judgment, it is interesting reading for the present day, will be more useful as a work of reference in future years, and will be most valuable of all to readers of another generation. Every student of history knows the worth, for the time that it covers, of the old ‘Annual Register,’ and this new series is better done and more comprehensive than its predecessor.”—Examiner.“This volume of the new series of the ‘Annual Register’ seems well and carefully compiled. The narrative is accurate, and it is obvious that the writers have striven to be impartial.”—Athenæum.“The whole of the compilation, however, is readable, and some of its more important parts are very well done. Such is, among other historical portions, the account of the situation in France before and at the beginning of the war. The narrative of the military events is clear, comprehensive, and attractive.”—Nation (New York).HISTORICAL NARRATIVES.From the Russian. ByH. C. Romanoff, Author of “Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church,”&c.Crown 8vo. 6s.PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS FOR THE HOLY COMMUNION.With a Preface byC. J. Ellicott,D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. With rubrics and borders in red. Royal 32mo. 2s.6d.“Devout beauty is the special character of this new manual, and it ought to be a favourite. Rarely has it happened to us to meet with so remarkable a combination of thorough practicalness with that almost poetic warmth which is the highest flower of genuine devotion. It deserves to be placed along with the manual edited byMr.Keble so shortly before his decease, not as superseding it, for the scope of the two is different, but to be taken along with it. Nothing can exceed the beauty and fulness of the devotions before communion inMr.Keble’s book, but we think that in some points the devotions here given after Holy Communion are even superior to it.”—Literary Churchman.“Bishop Ellicott has edited a book of ‘Prayers and Meditations for the Holy Communion,’ which, among Eucharistic manuals, has its own special characteristic. The Bishop recommends it to the newly confirmed, to the tender-hearted and the devout, as having been compiled by a youthful person, and as being marked by a peculiar ‘freshness.’ Having looked through the volume, we have pleasure in seconding the recommendations of the good Bishop. We know of no more suitable manual for the newly confirmed, and nothing more likely to engage the sympathies of youthful hearts. There is a union of the deepest spirit of devotion, a rich expression of experimental life, with a due recognition of the objects of faith, such as is not always to be found, but which characterises this manual in an eminent degree.”—Church Review.“The Bishop of Gloucester’s imprimatur is attached to ‘Prayers and Meditations for the Holy Communion,’ intended as a manual for the recently confirmed, nicely printed, and theologically sound.”—Church Times.“Among the supply of Eucharistic Manuals, one deserves special attention and commendation. ‘Prayers and Meditations’ merits the Bishop of Gloucester’s epithets of ‘warm, devout, and fresh.’ And it is thoroughly English Church besides.”—Guardian.“We are by no means surprised that Bishop Ellicott should have been so much struck with this little work, on accidentally seeing it in manuscript, as to urge its publication, and to preface it with his commendation. The devotion which it breathes is truly fervent, and the language attractive, and as proceeding from a young person the work is altogether not a little striking.”—Record.THE PRAYER BOOK INTERLEAVED; With Historical Illustrations and Explanatory Notes arranged parallel to the Text. By theRev.W. M. Campion,D.D., Fellow and Tutor of Queen’s College, and Rector ofSt.Botolph’s, and theRev.W. J. Beamont,M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With a Preface by theLord Bishop of Ely. Sixth Edition. Small 8vo. 7s.6d.EIGHT LECTURES ON THE MIRACLES.Being the Bampton Lectures for 1865. ByJ. B. Mozley,D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. Third Edition, Revised. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.CATECHESIS; OR, CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION PREPARATORY TO CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION.ByCharles Wordsworth,D.C.L., Bishop ofSt.Andrew’s. New Edition. Small 8vo. 2s.A THEORY OF HARMONY.Founded on the Tempered Scale. With Questions and Exercises for the Use of Students. ByJohn Stainer,Mus. Doc.,M.A., Magdalene College, Oxford, Organist toSt.Paul’s Cathedral. Royal 8vo. 7s.6d.“It is the first work of its class that needs no apology for its introduction, as it is really much needed especially by teachers, who would fail without the aid of its principles to account for many of the effects in modern music, used in direct opposition to the teaching of the schools. It is difficult, if not impossible, to give a more elaborate description of a book destined to effect an entire change in musical teaching without entering into details that could not but prove uninteresting to the general readers, while to the musician and amateur, the possession of the book itself is recommended as a valuable confirmation of ideas that exist to a large extent in the minds of every one who has ever thought about music, and who desires to see established a more uniform basis of study. The great and leading characteristic of the work is its logical reasoning and definitions, a character not possessed by any previous book on the subject, and for thisDr.Stainer’s theory is certain to gain ground, and be the means of opening an easy and pleasant path in a road hitherto beset with the thorns and briars of perplexing technicalities.”—Morning Post.“Dr.Stainer is a learned musician, and his book supplies a manual of information as well as a rich repository of musical erudition in the form of classical quotations from the great masters.”—John Bull.“Dr.Stainer, in his thoughtful book, sees clearly of amalgamating opposing systems in order to found a theory of harmony. He bases his work on the tempered scale, and he developes and illustrates his theory by questions and exercises for the use of students. His opening exposition of the rudiments of music is clear: when he reaches the regions of harmony he comes on debateable ground.”—Athenæum.“To the student perplexed and chained down by the multitudinous rules of the old theorists, we cannot give better comfort than to advise him to read forthwithDr.Stainer’s ingenious and thoughtful book. It is exceedingly well got up, and from the clearness of the type used, very easy and pleasant to read.”—Choir.CHURCH ORGANS: their Position and Construction. With an Appendix containing some Account of the Mediæval Organ Case still existing at Old Radnor, South Wales. ByFrederick Heathcote Sutton,M.A., Vicar of Theddingworth. With Illustrations. Imperial folio. 6s.6d.MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.ByHenry Francis Lyte,M.A.New Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.BIBLE READINGS FOR FAMILY PRAYER.By theRev.W. H. Ridley,M.A., Rector of Hambleden. Crown 8vo.Old Testament—Genesis and Exodus. 2s.New Testament,(‡ Left brace)St.Luke andSt.John. 2s.St.Matthew andSt.Mark. 2s.The Four Gospels, in one volume. 3s.6d.ST.JOHN CHRYSOSTOM’S LITURGY.Translated byH. C. Romanoff, Author of “Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church,”&c.With Illustrations. Square crown 8vo. 4s.6d.NOTITIA EUCHARISTICA.A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical, on the Order of the Administration of the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion, according to the Use of the Church of England. ByW. E. Scudamore,M.A., Rector of Ditchingham, and formerly Fellow ofS.John’s College, Cambridge. 8vo. 28s.WORDS TO TAKE WITH US.A Manual of Daily and Occasional Prayers, for Private and Common Use. With Plain Instructions and Counsels on Prayer. ByW. E. Scudamore,M.A., Rector of Ditchingham, and formerly Fellow ofS.John’s College, Cambridge. New Edition. Revised. Small 8vo. 2s.6d.“‘Words to Take with Us,’ by W. E. Scudamore, is one of the best manuals of daily and occasional prayers we have seen. At once orthodox and practical, sufficiently personal, and yet not perplexingly minute in its details, it is calculated to be of inestimable value in many a household.”—John Bull.“We are again pleased to see an old friend on the editorial table, in a third edition ofMr.Scudamore’s well-known Manual of Prayers. The special proper collects for each day of the week, as well as those for the several seasons of the Christian year, have been most judiciously selected. The compiler moreover, while recognising the full benefits to be derived from the Book of Common Prayer, has not feared to draw largely from the equally invaluable writings of ancient Catholicity. The preface is a systematic arrangement of instructions in prayer and meditation.”—Church Review.THE HOME LIFE OF JESUS OF NAZARETH AND OTHER SERMONS.By theRev.Augustus Gurney,M.A., Vicar of Wribbenhall, Kidderminster. Crown 8vo. 5s.A CHURCH HISTORY OF THE FIRST SEVEN CENTURIES, to the Close of the Sixth General Council. ByMilo Mahan,D.D., sometimeS.Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary, New York. 8vo. 15s.OUR MOTHER CHURCH: being Simple Talk on High Topics. ByAnne Mercier. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.“We have rarely come across a book dealing with an old subject in a healthier and, as far as may be, more original manner, while yet thoroughly practical, than ‘Our Mother Church,’ byMrs.Jerome Mercier. It is intended for and admirably adapted to the use of girls. Thoroughly reverent in its tone, and bearing in every page marks of learned research, it is yet easy of comprehension, and explains ecclesiastical terms with the accuracy of a lexicon without the accompanying dulness. It is to be hoped that the book will attain to the large circulation it justly merits.”—John Bull.“We have never seen a book for girls of its class which commends itself to us more particularly than ‘Our Mother Church’ byMrs.Jerome Mercier. The author, who is the wife of an earnest parish priest of the Anglican school, near London, calls her work ‘simple talk on great subjects,’ and calls it by a name that describes it almost as completely as we could do in a longer notice than we can spare the volume. Here are the headings of the chapters:—‘The Primitive Church,’ ‘Primitive Places and Modes of Worship,’ ‘The Early English Church,’ ‘The Monastic Orders,’ ‘The Friars,’ ‘A Review of Church History,’ ‘The Prayer Book,’ (four chapters), ‘Symbolism,’ ‘Church Architecture,’ ‘Windows and Bells,’ ‘Church Music,’ ‘Church Work.’ No one can fail to comprehend the beautifully simple, devout, and appropriate language in whichMrs.Mercier embodies what she has to say; and for the facts with which she deals she has taken good care to have their accuracy assured.”—Standard.“The plan of this pleasant-looking book is excellent. It is a kind ofMrs.Markham on the Church of England, written especially for girls, and we shall not be surprised to find it become a favourite in schools.... It is really a conversational hand-book to the English Church’s history, doctrine, and ritual, complied by a very diligent reader from some of the best modern Anglican sources.”—English Churchman.THE DIVINITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; being the Bampton Lectures for 1866. ByHenry Parry Liddon,D.D.,D.C.L., Canon ofSt.Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s.

A SELECTION FROM THEBOOKSPUBLISHED DURING 1869, 1870, 1871, AND 1872, BYMessrs.RIVINGTON,HIGH STREET, OXFORD; TRINITY STREET, CAMBRIDGE;WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON.

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THE BOOK OF CHURCH LAW.Being an exposition of the Legal Rights and Duties of the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England. By theRev.John Henry Blunt,M.A.,F.S.A.Revised byWalter G. F. Phillimore, B.C.L., Barrister-at-Law, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Lincoln. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

“We have tested this work on various points of a crucial character, and have found it very accurate and full in its information. It embodies the results of the most recent acts of the Legislature on the clerical profession and the rights of the laity.”——Standard.

“Already in our leading columns we have directed attention toMessrs.Blunt and Phillimore’s ‘Book of Church Law,’ as an excellent manual for ordinary use. It is a book which should stand on every clergyman’s shelves ready for use when any legal matter arises about which its possessor is in doubt.... It is to be hoped that the authorities at our Theological Colleges sufficiently recognize the value of a little legal knowledge on the part of the clergy to recommend this book to their students. It would serve admirably as the text-book for a set of lectures, and we trust we shall hear that its publication has done something to encourage the younger clergy to make themselves masters of at least the general outlines of Ecclesiastical Law, as it relates to the Church of England.”——Church Times.

“There is a copious index, and the whole volume forms a Handy-book of Church Law down to the present time, which, if found on the library shelves of most of the clergy, would often save them from much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and expense.”——National Church.

THOUGHTS ON PERSONAL RELIGION;being a Treatise on the Christian Life in its Two Chief Elements, Devotion and Practice. ByEdward Meyrick Goulburn,D.D., Dean of Norwich. New Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.6d.

An Edition for Presentation, Two Volumes, small 8vo. 10s.6d.Also, a cheap Edition. Small 8vo. 3s.6d.

THE PURSUIT OF HOLINESS: a Sequel to “Thoughts on Personal Religion,” intended to carry the Reader somewhat farther onward in the Spiritual Life. ByEdward Meyrick Goulburn,D.D., Dean of Norwich, and formerly one of Her Majesty’s Chaplains in Ordinary. Fourth Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.

THE STAR OF CHILDHOOD.A First Book of Prayers and Instruction for Children. Compiled by a Priest. Edited by theRev.T. T. Carter,M.A., Rector of Clewer, Berks. With Six Illustrations, reduced from Engravings byFra Angelico. Royal 16mo. 2s.6d.

“All the Instructions, all of the Hymns, and most of the Prayers here are excellent. And when we use the cautionary expression ‘most of the,’&c., we do not mean to imply that all the prayers are not excellent in themselves, but only to express a doubt whether in some cases they may not be a little too elaborate for children. Of course it by no means follows that when you use a book you are to use equally every portion of it: what does not suit one may suit a score of others, and this book is clearly compiled on thecomprehensiveprinciple. But to give a veracious verdict on the book it is needful to mention this. We need hardly say that it is well worth buying, and of a very high order of merit.”——Literary Churchman.

“Messrs.Rivington have sent us a manual of prayers for children, called ‘The Star of Childhood,’ edited by theRev.T. T. Carter, a very full collection, including instruction as well as devotion, and a judicious selection of hymns.”——Church Review.

“TheRev.T. T. Carter, of Clewer, has put forth a much needed and excellent book of devotions for little children, called ‘The Star of Childhood.’ We think it fair to tell our readers, that in it they will find that for children who have lost a near relative a short commemorative prayer is provided; but we most earnestly hope that even by those who are not willing to accept this usage, the book will not be rejected, for it is a most valuable one.”——Monthly Packet.

“One amongst the books before us deserves especial notice, entitled ‘The Star of Childhood,’ and edited by theRev.T. T. Carter: it is eminently adapted for a New Year’s Gift. It is a manual of prayer for children, with hymns, litanies, and instructions. Some of the hymns are illustrative of our Lord’s life; and to these are added reduced copies from engravings of Fra Angelico.”——Penny Post.

“Supposing a child to be capable of using a devotional manual, the book before us is, in its general structure, as good an attempt to meet the want as could have been put forth. In the first place it succeeds, where so many like efforts fail, in the matter of simplicity. The language is quite within the compass of a young child; that is to say, it is such as a young child can be made to understand; for we do not suppose that the book is intended to be put directly into his hands, but through the hands of an instructor.”——Church Bells.

“To the same hand which gave us the ‘Treasury of Devotion’ we are indebted for this beautiful little manual for children. Beginning with prayers suited to the comprehension of the youngest, it contains devotions, litanies, hymns, and instructions, carefully proportioned to the gradually increasing powers of a child’s mind from the earliest years, until confirmation. This little book cannot fail to influence for good the impressible hearts of children, and we hope that ere long it will be in the hands of all those who are blessed with Catholic-minded parents. It is beautifully got up, and is rendered more attractive by the capital engravings of Fra Angelico’s pictures of scenes of our Lord’s childhood. God-parents could scarcely find a more appropriate gift for their God-children than this, or one that is more likely to lead them to a knowledge of the truth.”——Church Union Gazette.

“‘The Star of Childhood’ is a first book of Prayers and instruction for children, compiled by a Priest, and edited by theRev.T. T. Carter, rector of Clever. It is a very careful compilation, and the name of its editor is a warrant for its devotional tone.”——Guardian.

“A handsomely got up and attractive volume, with several good illustrations from Fra Angelico’s most famous paintings.”——Union Review.

BY THE SAME COMPILER AND EDITOR.

THE TREASURY OF DEVOTION: A Manual pf Prayers for General and Daily Use. Sixth Edition. Imperial 32mo, 2s.6d.; limp cloth, 2s.Bound with the Book of Common Prayer, 3s.6d.

THE WAY OF LIFE: A Book of Prayers and Instruction for the Young (at School). Imperial 32mo, 1s.6d.

THE GUIDE TO HEAVEN: A Book of Prayers for every Want. For the Working Classes. New Edition. Imperial 32mo, 1s.6d.; limp cloth, 1s.

The Edition in large type may still be had.Crown 8vo, 1s.6d.; limp cloth, 1s.

THE PATH OF HOLINESS: A First Book of Prayers, with the Service of the Holy Communion, for the Young. With Illustrations. Crown 16mo, 1s.6d.; limp cloth, 1s.

LECTURES ON THE REUNION OF THE CHURCHES.ByJohn J. Ign. Von Döllinger,D.D.,D.C.L., Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Munich, Provost of the Chapel-Royal,&c.&c.Authorized Translation, with Preface byHenry Nutcombe Oxenham,M.A., late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.

“... Marked by all the author’s well-known, varied learning, breadth of view, and outspoken spirit. The momentous question which the Doctor discusses has long occupied the thoughts of some of the most earnest and enlightened divines in all branches of the Christian communion, though wide apart in other points of belief and practice. On the infinite importance of reunion among Christian Churches in their endeavour to evangelize the yet remaining two-thirds of the human race——strangers to any form of Christianity——the author enlarges with power and eloquence; and this topic is one of unusual and lasting interest, though, of course, only one among♦a host of others equally important and equally well discussed.”——Standard.

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“In the present state of thought respecting the union of the Churches, these Lectures will be welcomed by very many persons of different schools of religious thought. They are not the hasty words of an enthusiast, but the calm, well-considered, and carefully prepared writings of one whose soul is profoundly moved by his great subject. They form a contribution to the literature of this grave question, valuable alike for its breadth of historical survey, its fairness, the due regard paid to existing obstacles, and the practical character of its suggestions.”——London Quarterly Review.

BRIGHSTONE SERMONS.ByGeorge Moberly,D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

THE SAYINGS OF THE GREAT FORTY DAYS, Between the Resurrection and Ascension, regarded as the Outlines of the Kingdom of God. In Five Discourses. With an Examination ofDr.Newman’s Theory of Development. ByGeorge Moberly,D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

WARNINGS OF THE HOLY WEEK,&c.Being a Course of Parochial Lectures for the Week before Easter and the Easter Festivals. By theRev.W. Adams,M.A., late Vicar ofSt.Peter’s-in-the-East, Oxford, and Fellow of Merton College. Seventh Edition. Small 8vo. 4s.6d.

SELF-RENUNCIATION.From the French. With Introduction by theRev.T. T. Carter,M.A., Rector of Clewer. Crown 8vo. 6s.

“It is excessively difficult to review or criticise, in detail, a book of this kind, and yet its abounding merits, its practicalness, its searching good sense and thoroughness, and its frequent beauty, too, make us wish to do something more than announce its publication.... The style is eminently clear, free from redundance and prolixity.”——Literary Churchman.

“Few save Religious and those brought into immediate contact with them are, in all probability, acquainted with the French treatise of Guilloré, a portion of which is now, for the first time we believe, done into English.... Hence the suitableness of such a book as this for those who, in the midst of their families, are endeavouring to advance in the spiritual life. Hundreds of devout souls living in the world have been encouraged and helped by such books asDr.Neale’s ‘Sermons preached in a Religious House.’ For such the present work will be found appropriate, while for Religious themselves it will be invaluable.”——Church Times.

THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF.ByS. Baring-gould,M.A., Author of “Curious Myths of the Middle Ages.”

VolumeI.MONOTHEISM and POLYTHEISM. Second Edition. 8vo. 15s.

VolumeII.CHRISTIANITY. 8vo. 15s.

THE HIDDEN LIFE OF THE SOUL.From the French. By the Author of “A Dominican Artist,” “Life of Madame Louise de France,”&c.Crown 8vo. 5s.

“‘The Hidden Life of the Soul,’ by the author of ‘A Dominican Artist,’ is from the writings of Father Grou, a French refugee priest of 1792, who died at Lulworth. It well deserves the character given it of being ‘earnest and sober,’ and not ‘sensational.’”——Guardian.

“There is a wonderful charm about these readings——so calm, so true, so thoroughly Christian. We do not know where they would come amiss. As materials for a consecutive series of meditations for the faithful at a series of early celebrations they would be excellent, or for private reading during Advent or Lent.”——Literary Churchman.

“From the French of Jean Nicolas Grou, a pious Priest, whose works teach resignation to the Divine will. He loved, we are told, to inculcate simplicity, freedom from all affectation and unreality, the patience and humility which are too surely grounded in self-knowledge to be surprised at a fall, but withal so allied to confidence in God as to make recovery easy and sure. This is the spirit of the volume which is intended to furnish advice to those who would cultivate a quiet, meek, and childlike spirit.”——Public Opinion.

A DOMINICAN ARTIST; a Sketch of the Life of theRev.Père Besson, of the Order ofSt.Dominic. By the Author of the “The Tales of Kirkbeck,” “The Life of Madame Louise de France,”&c.New Edition. Crown 8vo. 6s.

“The author of the Life of Père Besson writes with a grace and refinement of devotional feeling peculiarly suited to a subject-matter which suffers beyond most others from any coarseness of touch. It would be difficult to find ‘the simplicity and purity of a holy life’ more exquisitely illustrated than in Father Besson’s career, both before and after his joining the Dominican Order under the auspices of Lacordaire.... Certainly we have never come across what could more strictly be termed in the truest sense ‘the life of a beautiful soul.’ The author has done well in presenting to English readers this singularly graceful biography, in which all who can appreciate genuine simplicity and nobleness of Christian character will find to admire and little or nothing to condemn.”——Saturday Review.

“It would indeed have been a deplorable omission had so exquisite a biography been by any neglect lost to English readers, and had character so perfect in its simple and complete devotion been withheld from our admiration.... But we have dwelt too long already on this fascinating book, and must now leave it to our readers.”——Literary Churchman.

“A beautiful and most interesting sketch of the late Père Besson, an artist who forsook the easel for the altar.”——Church Times.

“A book which is as pleasant for reading as it is profitable for meditation.”——Union Review.

“Whatever a reader may think of Père Besson’s profession as a monk, no one will doubt his goodness; no one can fail to profit who will patiently read his life, as here written by a friend, whose sole defect is in being slightly unctuous.”——Athenæum.

“The life of theRev.Père Besson, who gave up an artist’s career, to which he was devotedly attached, and a mother whose affection for him is not inaptly likened to that of Monica forSt.Augustine, must be read in its entirety to be rightly appreciated. And the whole tenour of the book is too devotional, too full of expressions of the most touching dependence on God, to make criticism possible, even if it was called for, which it is not.”——John Bull.

“The story of Père Besson’s life is one of much interest, and told with simplicity, candour, and good feeling.”——Spectator.

“A beautiful book, describing the most saintly and very individual life of one of the companions of Lacordaire.”——Monthly Packet.

“We strongly recommend it to our readers. It is a charming biography, that will delight and edify both old and young.”——Westminster Gazette.

THE LIFE OF MADAME LOUISE DE FRANCE, daughter of LouisXV.Known also as the Mother Térèse deSt.Augustine. By the Author of “Tales of Kirkbeck.” Crown 8vo. 6s.

“On the15thof July 1737, Marie Leczinska, the wife of LouisXV., and daughter of the dethroned King of Poland, which Prussia helped to despoil and plunder, gave birth to her eighth female child, Louise Marie, known also as the Mother Térèse deSt.Augustin. On the death of the Queen, the princess, who had long felt a vocation for a religious life, obtained the consent of her royal father to withdraw from the world. The Carmelite convent ofSt.Denis was the chosen place of retreat. Here the novitiate was passed, here the final vows were taken, and here, on the death of the Mère Julie, Madame Louise began and terminated her experiences as prioress. The little volume which records the simple incidents of her pious seclusion is designed to edify those members of the Church of England in whom the spirit of religious self-devotion is reviving.”——Westminster Review.

“The annals of a cloistered life, under ordinary circumstances, would not probably be considered very edifying by the reading public of the present generation. When, however, such a history presents the novel spectacle of a royal princess of modern times voluntarily renouncing her high position and the splendours of a court existence, for the purpose of enduring the asceticism, poverty, and austerities of a severe monastic rule, the case may well be different.”——Morning Post.

HENRI PERREYVE.ByA. Gratry, Prêtre de l’Oratoire, Professeur de Morale Evangélique à la Sorbonne, et Membre de l’Académie Française. Translated, by special permission, by the Author of “A Dominican Artist,” “Life ofS.Francis de Sales,”&c.,&c.With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

“... A most touching and powerful piece of biography, interspersed with profound reflections on personal religion, and on the prospects of Christianity.... For priests this book is a treasure. The moral of it is the absolute necessity of ‘recollectedness’ to the higher, and especially the true priestly life.”——Church Review.

“The works of the translator of Henri Perreyve♦from, for the most part, a series of saintly biographies which have obtained a larger share of popularity than is generally accorded to books of this description.... The description of his last days will probably be read with greater interest than any other part of the book; presenting as it does an example of fortitude under suffering, and resignation, when cutoff so soon after entering upon a much-coveted and useful career, of rare occurrence in this age of self-assertion. This is, in fact, the essential teaching of the entire volume.... The translator of the Abbé Gratry’s work has done well in giving English readers an opportunity of profiting by its lessons.”——Morning Post.

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“Those who take a pleasure in reading a beautiful account of a beautiful character would do well to procure the Life of ‘Henri Perreyve.’... We would especially recommend the book for the perusal of English priests, who may learn many a holy lesson from the devoted spirit in which the subject of the memoir gave himself up to the duties of his sacred office, and to this cultivation of the graces with which he was endowed.”——Church Times.

“It is easy to see that Henri Perreyve, Professor of Moral Theology at the Sorbonne, was a Roman Catholic priest of no ordinary type. With comparatively little of what Protestants call superstition, with great courage and sincerity, with a nature singularly guileless and noble, his priestly vocation, although pursued, according to his biographer, with unbridled zeal, did not stifle his human sympathies and aspirations. He could not believe that his faith compelled him ‘to renounce sense and reason,’ or that a priest was not free to speak, act, and think like other men. Indeed, the Abbé Gratry makes a kind of apology for his friend’s free-speaking in this respect, and endeavours to explain it. Perreyve was the beloved disciple of Lacordaire, who left him all his manuscripts, notes, and papers, and he himself attained the position of a great pulpit orator.”——Pall Mall Gazette.

THE LAST DAYS OF PÈRE GRATRY.ByPere Adolphe Perraud, of the Oratory, and Professor of La Sorbonne. Translated by special permission. Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.

S.FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA.By the Author of “A Dominican Artist,” “Life of Madame Louise de France,”&c.,&c.Crown 8vo. 9s.

“It is written with the delicacy, freshness, and absence of all affectation which characterised the former works by the same hand, and which render these books so very much more pleasant reading than are religious biographies in general. The character ofS.Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, is a charming one; a more simple, pure, and pious life it would be difficult to conceive. His unaffected humility, his freedom from dogmatism in an age when dogma was placed above religion, his freedom from bigotry in an age of persecution, were alike admirable.”——Standard.

“The author of ‘A Dominican Artist,’ in writing this new life of the wise and loving Bishop and Prince of Geneva, has aimed less at historical or ecclesiastical investigation than at a vivid and natural representation of the inner mind and life of the subject of his biography, as it can be traced in his own writings and in those of his most intimate and affectionate friends. The book is written with the grave and quiet grace which characterises the productions of its author, and cannot fail to please those readers who can sympathise with all forms of goodness and devotion to noble purpose.”——Westminster Review.

“A book which contains the record of a life as sweet, pure, and noble as any man by divine help, granted to devout sincerity of soul, has been permitted to live upon earth. The example of this gentle but resolute and energetic spirit, wholly dedicated to the highest conceivable good, offering itself, with all the temporal uses of mental existence, to the service of infinite and eternal beneficence, is extremely touching.... It is a book worthy of acceptance.”——Daily News.

“It is not a translation or adaptation, but an original work, and a very charming portrait of one of the most winning characters in the long gallery of Saints. And it is a matter of thankfulness to us to find a distinctively Anglican writer setting forward the good Bishop’s work among Protestants, as a true missionary task to reclaim souls from deadly error, and bring them back to the truth.”——Union Review.

THE SPIRIT OFS.FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA.Translated from the French by the Author of “The Life ofS.Francis de Sales,” “A Dominican Artist,”&c.,&c.Crown 8vo. 6s.

A SELECTION FROM THE SPIRITUAL LETTERS OFS.FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA.Translated by the Author of “Life ofS.Francis de Sales,” “A Dominican Artist,”&c.,&c.Crown 8vo. 6s.

“It is a collection of epistolary correspondence of rare interest and excellence. With those who have read the Life, there cannot but have been a strong desire to know more of so beautiful a character asS.Francis de Sales. He was a model of Christian saintliness and religious virtue for all time, and one everything relating to whom, so great were the accomplishments of his mind as well as the devotion of his heart, has a charm which delights, instructs, and elevates.”—Church Herald.

“A few months back we had the pleasure of welcoming the Life ofS.Francis de Sales. Here is the promised sequel:—the ‘Selection from his Spiritual Letters’ then announced:—and a great boon it will be to many. The Letters are addressed to people of all sorts:—to men and to women:—to laity and to ecclesiastics, to people living in the world, or at court, and to the inmates of Religious Houses. And what an idea it gives one of the widely ramifying influence of one good man and of the untiring diligence of a man, who in spite of all his external duties, could find or make the time for all these letters. We hope that with our readers it may be totally needless to urge such a volume on their notice.”—Literary Churchman.

CONSOLATIO; or, Comfort for the Afflicted. Edited by theRev.C. E. Kennaway. With a Preface bySamuel Wilberforce,D.D., Lord Bishop of Winchester. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s.6d.

“A charming collection from the best writers of passages suitable in seasons of sickness and afflictions.”—Church Review.

“A very valuable collection of extracts from writers of every school. The volume is an elegant one.”—Church Times.

“A very useful collection of devotional extracts from the histories of good men of very various schools of thought.”—John Bull.

“We are bound to admire the extreme beauty and the warm devotion of the majority of passages here collected to smooth the soul that sorrows, even though penned by men from whom we differ so much in doctrine.”—Rock.

“A work which we feel sure will find a welcome and also prove a soothing guest in the chamber of many an invalid.”—Record.

A BOOK OF FAMILY PRAYER.Compiled byWalter Farquhar Hook,D.D., Dean of Chichester. Eighth Edition. 18mo. 2s.

FAMILY PRAYERS.Compiled from various Sources (chiefly from Bishop Hamilton’s Manual), and arranged on the Liturgical Principle. ByEdward Meyrick Goulburn,D.D., Dean of Norwich. New Edition. Large type. Crown 8vo. 3s.6d.Cheap Edition, 16mo. 1s.

A MANUAL OF CONFIRMATION, Comprising—1. A General Account of the Ordinance. 2. The Baptismal Vow, and the English Order of Confirmation, with Short Notes, Critical and Devotional. 3. Meditations and Prayers on Passages of Holy Scripture, in connexion with the Ordinance. With a Pastoral Letter instructing Catechumens how to prepare themselves for their first Communion. ByEdward Meyrick Goulburn,D.D., Dean of Norwich. Ninth Edition. Small 8vo. 1s.6d.

DIRECTORIUM PASTORALE.The Principles and Practice of Pastoral Work in the Church of England. By theRev.John Henry Blunt,M.A.,F.S.A., Editor of “The Annotated Book of Common Prayer,”&c.&c.Third Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

“This is the third edition of a work which has become deservedly popular as the best extant exposition of the principles and practice of the pastoral work in the Church of England. Its hints and suggestions are based on practical experience, and it is further recommended by the majority of our Bishops at the ordination of priests and deacons.”—Standard.

“Its practical usefulness to the parochial clergy is proved by the acceptance it has already received at their hands, and no faithful parish priest, who is working in real earnest for the extension of spiritual instruction amongst all classes of his flock will rise from the perusal of its pages without having obtained some valuable hints as to the best mode of bringing home our Church’s system to the hearts of his people.”—National Church.

THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS.Translated into English, with an Introduction and Notes. ByCharles H. Hoole,M.A., Senior Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Small 8vo. 4s.6d.

HYMNS AND POEMS FOR THE SICK AND SUFFERING.In connexion with the Service for the Visitation of the Sick. Selected from various Authors. Edited byT. V. Fosbery,M.A., Vicar ofSt.Giles’s, Reading. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s.6d.

THE “DAMNATORY CLAUSES” OF THE ATHANASIAN CREED RATIONALLY EXPLAINED, IN A LETTER TO THE RIGHTHON.W. E. GLADSTONE,M.P.By theRev.Malcolm Maccoll,M.A., Rector ofSt.George, Botolph Lane. Crown 8vo. 6s.

A GLOSSARY OF ECCLESIASTICAL TERMS.Containing Brief Explanations of Words used in Theology, Liturgiology, Chronology, Law, Architecture, Antiquities, Symbolism, Greek Hierology and Mediæval Latin; together with some account of Titles of our Lord, Emblems of Saints, Hymns, Orders, Heresies, Ornaments, Offices, Vestments and Ceremonial, and Miscellaneous Subjects. By Various Writers. Edited by theRev.Orby Shipley,M.A.Crown 8vo. 18s.

ANCIENT HYMNS.From the Roman Breviary. For Domestic Use every Morning and Evening of the Week, and on the Holy Days of the Church. To which are added, Original Hymns, principally of Commemoration and Thanksgiving for Christ’s Holy Ordinances. ByRichard Mant,D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Down and Connor. New Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.

“Real poetry wedded to words that breathe the purest and the sweetest spirit of Christian devotion. The translation from the old Latin Hymnal are close and faithful renderings.”—Standard.

“As a Hymn writer Bishop Mant deservedly occupies a prominent place in the esteem of Churchmen, and we doubt not that many will be the readers who will welcome this new edition of his translations and original compositions.”—English Churchman.

“A new edition of Bishop Mant’s ‘Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary’ forms a handsome little volume, and it is interesting to compare some of these translations with the more modern ones of our own day. While we have no hesitation in awarding the palm to the latter, the former are an evidence of the earliest germs of that yearning of the devout mind for something better than Tate and Brady, and which know so richly supplied.”—Church Times.

“This valuable manual will be of great assistance to all compilers of Hymn-Books. The translations are graceful, clear, and forcible, and the original hymns deserve the highest praise. Bishop Mant has caught the very spirit of true psalmody, his metre flows musically, and there is a tuneful ring in his verses which especially adapts them for congregational singing.”—Rock.

YESTERDAY, TO-DAY, AND FOR EVER: A Poem in Twelve Books. ByE. H. Bickersteth,M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead. Seventh Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.

“The most simple, the richest, and the most perfect sacred poem which recent days have produced.”—Morning Advertiser.

“A poem worth reading, worthy of attentive study; full of noble thoughts, beautiful diction, and high imagination.”—Standard.

“Mr.Bickersteth writes like a man who cultivates at once reverence and earnestness of thought.”—Guardian.

“In these light miscellany days there is a spiritual refreshment in the spectacle of man girding up the loins of his mind to the task of producing a genuine epic. And it is true poetry. There is a definiteness, a crispness about it, which in these moist, viewy, hazy days♦is no less invigorating than novel.”—Edinburgh Daily Review.

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THE TWO BROTHERS, and other Poems. ByEdward Henry Bickersteth,M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Ripon, Author of “Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever.” Second Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.

A HANDY BOOK OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL DILAPIDATIONS ACT, 1871.With the Amendment Act, 1872. With Remarks on the Qualification and Practice of Diocesan Surveyors. ByEdward G. Bruton,F.R.I.B.A., and Diocesan Surveyor, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.

STONES OF THE TEMPLE; OR, LESSONS FROM THE FABRIC AND FURNITURE OF THE CHURCH.ByWalter Field,M.A.,F.S.A., Vicar of Godmersham. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

“Anyone who wishes for simple information on the subjects of Church-architecture and furniture, cannot do better than consult ‘Stones of the Temple.’Mr.Field modestly disclaims any intention of supplanting the existing regular treatises, but his book shows an amount of research, and a knowledge of what he is talking about, which make it practically useful as well as pleasant. The wood-cuts are numerous and some of them very pretty.”—Graphic.

“A very charming book, by theRev.Walter Field, who was for years Secretary of one of the leading Church Societies. Mr. Field has a loving reverence for the beauty of the domus mansionalis Dei, as the old law books called the Parish Church.... Thoroughly sound in Church feeling, Mr. Field has chosen the medium of a tale to embody real incidents illustrative of the various portions of his subject. There is no attempt at elaboration of the narrative, which, indeed, is rather a string of anecdotes than a story, but each chapter brings home to the mind its own lesson, and each is illustrated with some very interesting engravings.... The work will properly command a hearty reception from Churchmen. The footnotes are occasionally most valuable, and are always pertinent, and the text is sure to be popular with young folks for Sunday reading.”—Standard.

“Mr.Field’s chapters on brasses, chancel screens, crosses, encaustic tiles, mural paintings, porches and pavements, are agreeably written, and people with a turn for Ritualism will no doubt find them edifying. The volume, as we have said, is not without significance for readers who are unable to sympathize with the object of the writer. The illustrations of Church-architecture and Church ornaments are very attractive.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

A SHADOW OF DANTE.Being an Essay towards Studying Himself, his World, and his Pilgrimage. ByMaria Francesca Rossetti. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 10s.6d.

“The ‘Shadow of Dante’ is a well-conceived and inviting volume, designed to recommend the ‘Divina Commedia’ to English readers, and to facilitate the study and comprehension of its contents.”—Athrnæum.

“And it is in itself a true work of art, a whole finely conceived, and carried out with sustained power,—one of those reproductions and adumbrations of great works, in which mere servile copying disappears, and which are only possible to a mind which, however inferior to its original, is yet of the same order and temperament, with an unusual faculty for taking the impressions of that original and reflecting them undimmed. It is much to say of a volume like this. But it is not too much to say, when, after going through it, we consider the thorough knowledge of the subject shown in it, the patient skill with which the intricate and puzzling arrangements of the poem, full of what we call the conceits and puzzles of the contemporary philosophy, are unravelled and made intelligible; the discrimination and high principle with which so ardent a lover of the great poet blames his excesses; the high and noble Christian faith which responds to his; and, lastly, the gift of eloquent speech, keen, rich, condensed, expressive, which seems to have passed into the writer from the loving study of the greatest master in his own tongue of all the inimitable harmonies of language—the tenderest, the deepest, the most awful.”—Guardian.

“The work introduces us not merely to the author’s life and the political and ecclesiastical conjunctures under which he lived, but to the outlines of the Catholicised systems of ethics, astronomy, and geography which he interpreted in classifying his spirits and assigning them their dwellings; as also to the drift of his leading allegories; and finally, to the general conduct of his poem—which is amply illustrated by citations from the most literal verse translations. We find the volume furnished with useful diagrams of the Dantesque universe, of Hell, Purgatory, and the ‘Rose of the Blessed,’ and adorned with a beautiful group of the likenesses of the poet, and with symbolic figures (on the binding) in which the taste and execution ofMr.D. G. Rossetti will be recognised. The exposition appears to us remarkably well arranged and digested; the author’s appreciation of Dante’s religious sentiments and opinions is peculiarly hearty, and her style refreshingly independent and original.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

“It bears traces throughout of having been due to a patient, loving and appreciative study of the great poet, as he is exhibited, not merely in the ‘Divina Commedia,’ but in his other writings. The result has been a book which is not only delightful in itself to read, but is admirably adapted as an encouragement to those students who wish to obtain a preliminary survey of the land before they attempt to follow Dante through his long and arduous pilgrimage. Of all poets Dante stands most in need of such assistance as this book offers.”—Saturday Review.

PARISH MUSINGS; OR, DEVOTIONAL POEMS.ByJohn S. B. Monsell,LL.D., Rural Dean, and Rector ofSt.Nicholas, Guildford. Fine Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.Cheap Edition, 18mo, limp cloth, 1s.6d.; or in Cover, 1s.

THE LIFE OF JUSTIFICATION.A Series of Lectures delivered in Substance at All Saints’, Margaret Street, in Lent, 1870. By theRev.George Body,B.A., Rector of Kirkby Misperton. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 4s.6d.

“On the whole we have rarely met with a more clear, intelligible and persuasive statement of the truth as regards the important topics on which the volume treats. SermonII.in particular, will strike every one by its eloquence and beauty, but we scarcely like to specify it, lest in praising it we should seem to disparage the other portions of this admirable little work.”—Church Times.

“These discourses show that their author’s position is due to something more and higher than mere fluency, gesticulation, and flexibility of voice. He appears as having drunk deeply at the fountain ofSt.Augustine, and as understanding how to translate the burning words of that mighty genius into the current language of to-day.”—Union Review.

“There is real power in these sermons:—power, real power, and plenty of it.... There is such a moral veraciousness about him, such a profound and over-mastering belief that Christ has proved a bona-fide cure for unholiness, and such an intensity of eagerness to lead others to seek and profit by that means of attaining the true sanctity which alone can enter Heaven—that we wonder not at the crowds which hang upon his preaching, nor at the success of his fervid appeals to the human conscience. If any one doubts our verdict, let him buy this volume. No one will regret its perusal.”—Literary Churchman.

SERMONS ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS.ByDaniel Moore,M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Paddington; Author of Hulsean Lectures on “The Age and the Gospel,” “Aids to Prayer,”&c.Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

“We do not wonder atMr.Moore’s long continued popularity with so many hearers; there is so much painstaking and so much genuine desire to discharge his duty as a preacher visible through all the volume. What we miss is the deeper theology, and the spontaneous flow of teaching as from a spring which cannot help flowing, which some of our preachers happily exhibit. But the Sermons may be recommended, or we would not notice them.”—Literary Churchman.

“Rarely have we met with a better volume of Sermons.... Orthodox, affectionate, and earnest, these Sermons exhibit at the same time much research, and are distinguished by an elegance and finish of style often wanting in these days of rapid writing and continual preaching.”—John Bull.

“Sermons like those ofMr.Moore are, however, still of comparative rarity—sermons in which we meet with doctrine which cannot be gainsaid; with a knowledge of the peculiar circumstances of his hearers, which nothing but accurate observation and long experience can secure, and a peculiar felicity of style which many will envy, but to which it is the lot of few to attain.”—Christian Observer.

“We have had real pleasure, however, in reading these sermons. Here are most of the elements of a preacher’s power and usefulness: skilful arrangement of the subject, admirable clearness of style, earnestness, both of thought and language, and the prime qualification of all, ‘in doctrine, uncorruptness.’”—London Quarterly Review.

THE KNIGHT OF INTERCESSION, AND OTHER POEMS.By theRev.S. J. Stone,M.A., Pembroke College, Oxford. Second Edition. Small 8vo. 6s.

“Mr.Stone has now given to the public a collection of poems, widely different in form, which enable us to measure more accurately his powers, not merely as a hymnist, but as a poet; and though we would not injure a growing reputation by overstating his merits, yet we can safely say that his volume contains much genuine poetry which will be read with unqualified pleasure.... It would be ungrateful of us to put down this volume without expressing the great pleasure it has afforded us, and our high appreciation of the valuable services which its author is rendering to the Church.”—Church Bells.

“... We all know him so well as the author of the beautiful processional hymn ‘The Church’s One Foundation,’ the Lenten hymn ‘Weary of Earth,’ and other favourites, that we were fully prepared for the pleasure that awaited us in perusing this volume.”—Church Opinion.

“The extracts we have thus given, differing as they do alike in subject and in style, present fair specimens of the varied interest of the volume, and of the poetic powers of its author. Most of our readers, we think, will agree with us that the publication is well-timed, and that it has much in it that is both pleasant and profitable reading.”—Church Herald.

“In the ‘Knight of Intercession’ and other poems we have the outpourings of a pure and devotional spirit, in language of unassuming and yet genuine poetry, rising at times, naturally and without effort, to a quiet but real beauty.”—Scotsman.

“Mr.Stone, it is clear, has studied all the best models, and has been influenced by them; but he maintains through all a distinctly individual note, and gives us real music.... There are true touches in the Idylls, and some of the poems on pictures are remarkably expressive and skilful, though nothing is more difficult than the proper working out of such themes. We like some of the sonnets—some of them are exceptionally sweet and finished.”—Nonconformist.

THE ANNUAL REGISTER: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad, for the Year 1872. 8vo. 18s.

⁂All the Volumes of the New Series from 1863 to 1872 may be had, 18s.each.

“Well edited, excellent type, good paper, and in all respects admirably got up. Its review of affairs, Home, Colonial, and Foreign, it fair, concise, and complete.”—Mining Quarterly.

“Solidly valuable, as well as interesting.”—Standard.

“Comprehensive and well executed.”—Spectator.

“The whole work being well-written, and compiled with care and judgment, it is interesting reading for the present day, will be more useful as a work of reference in future years, and will be most valuable of all to readers of another generation. Every student of history knows the worth, for the time that it covers, of the old ‘Annual Register,’ and this new series is better done and more comprehensive than its predecessor.”—Examiner.

“This volume of the new series of the ‘Annual Register’ seems well and carefully compiled. The narrative is accurate, and it is obvious that the writers have striven to be impartial.”—Athenæum.

“The whole of the compilation, however, is readable, and some of its more important parts are very well done. Such is, among other historical portions, the account of the situation in France before and at the beginning of the war. The narrative of the military events is clear, comprehensive, and attractive.”—Nation (New York).

HISTORICAL NARRATIVES.From the Russian. ByH. C. Romanoff, Author of “Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church,”&c.Crown 8vo. 6s.

PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS FOR THE HOLY COMMUNION.With a Preface byC. J. Ellicott,D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. With rubrics and borders in red. Royal 32mo. 2s.6d.

“Devout beauty is the special character of this new manual, and it ought to be a favourite. Rarely has it happened to us to meet with so remarkable a combination of thorough practicalness with that almost poetic warmth which is the highest flower of genuine devotion. It deserves to be placed along with the manual edited byMr.Keble so shortly before his decease, not as superseding it, for the scope of the two is different, but to be taken along with it. Nothing can exceed the beauty and fulness of the devotions before communion inMr.Keble’s book, but we think that in some points the devotions here given after Holy Communion are even superior to it.”—Literary Churchman.

“Bishop Ellicott has edited a book of ‘Prayers and Meditations for the Holy Communion,’ which, among Eucharistic manuals, has its own special characteristic. The Bishop recommends it to the newly confirmed, to the tender-hearted and the devout, as having been compiled by a youthful person, and as being marked by a peculiar ‘freshness.’ Having looked through the volume, we have pleasure in seconding the recommendations of the good Bishop. We know of no more suitable manual for the newly confirmed, and nothing more likely to engage the sympathies of youthful hearts. There is a union of the deepest spirit of devotion, a rich expression of experimental life, with a due recognition of the objects of faith, such as is not always to be found, but which characterises this manual in an eminent degree.”—Church Review.

“The Bishop of Gloucester’s imprimatur is attached to ‘Prayers and Meditations for the Holy Communion,’ intended as a manual for the recently confirmed, nicely printed, and theologically sound.”—Church Times.

“Among the supply of Eucharistic Manuals, one deserves special attention and commendation. ‘Prayers and Meditations’ merits the Bishop of Gloucester’s epithets of ‘warm, devout, and fresh.’ And it is thoroughly English Church besides.”—Guardian.

“We are by no means surprised that Bishop Ellicott should have been so much struck with this little work, on accidentally seeing it in manuscript, as to urge its publication, and to preface it with his commendation. The devotion which it breathes is truly fervent, and the language attractive, and as proceeding from a young person the work is altogether not a little striking.”—Record.

THE PRAYER BOOK INTERLEAVED; With Historical Illustrations and Explanatory Notes arranged parallel to the Text. By theRev.W. M. Campion,D.D., Fellow and Tutor of Queen’s College, and Rector ofSt.Botolph’s, and theRev.W. J. Beamont,M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. With a Preface by theLord Bishop of Ely. Sixth Edition. Small 8vo. 7s.6d.

EIGHT LECTURES ON THE MIRACLES.Being the Bampton Lectures for 1865. ByJ. B. Mozley,D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford. Third Edition, Revised. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

CATECHESIS; OR, CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION PREPARATORY TO CONFIRMATION AND FIRST COMMUNION.ByCharles Wordsworth,D.C.L., Bishop ofSt.Andrew’s. New Edition. Small 8vo. 2s.

A THEORY OF HARMONY.Founded on the Tempered Scale. With Questions and Exercises for the Use of Students. ByJohn Stainer,Mus. Doc.,M.A., Magdalene College, Oxford, Organist toSt.Paul’s Cathedral. Royal 8vo. 7s.6d.

“It is the first work of its class that needs no apology for its introduction, as it is really much needed especially by teachers, who would fail without the aid of its principles to account for many of the effects in modern music, used in direct opposition to the teaching of the schools. It is difficult, if not impossible, to give a more elaborate description of a book destined to effect an entire change in musical teaching without entering into details that could not but prove uninteresting to the general readers, while to the musician and amateur, the possession of the book itself is recommended as a valuable confirmation of ideas that exist to a large extent in the minds of every one who has ever thought about music, and who desires to see established a more uniform basis of study. The great and leading characteristic of the work is its logical reasoning and definitions, a character not possessed by any previous book on the subject, and for thisDr.Stainer’s theory is certain to gain ground, and be the means of opening an easy and pleasant path in a road hitherto beset with the thorns and briars of perplexing technicalities.”—Morning Post.

“Dr.Stainer is a learned musician, and his book supplies a manual of information as well as a rich repository of musical erudition in the form of classical quotations from the great masters.”—John Bull.

“Dr.Stainer, in his thoughtful book, sees clearly of amalgamating opposing systems in order to found a theory of harmony. He bases his work on the tempered scale, and he developes and illustrates his theory by questions and exercises for the use of students. His opening exposition of the rudiments of music is clear: when he reaches the regions of harmony he comes on debateable ground.”—Athenæum.

“To the student perplexed and chained down by the multitudinous rules of the old theorists, we cannot give better comfort than to advise him to read forthwithDr.Stainer’s ingenious and thoughtful book. It is exceedingly well got up, and from the clearness of the type used, very easy and pleasant to read.”—Choir.

CHURCH ORGANS: their Position and Construction. With an Appendix containing some Account of the Mediæval Organ Case still existing at Old Radnor, South Wales. ByFrederick Heathcote Sutton,M.A., Vicar of Theddingworth. With Illustrations. Imperial folio. 6s.6d.

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.ByHenry Francis Lyte,M.A.New Edition. Small 8vo. 5s.

BIBLE READINGS FOR FAMILY PRAYER.By theRev.W. H. Ridley,M.A., Rector of Hambleden. Crown 8vo.

Old Testament—Genesis and Exodus. 2s.

New Testament,(‡ Left brace)St.Luke andSt.John. 2s.St.Matthew andSt.Mark. 2s.

The Four Gospels, in one volume. 3s.6d.

ST.JOHN CHRYSOSTOM’S LITURGY.Translated byH. C. Romanoff, Author of “Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the Greco-Russian Church,”&c.With Illustrations. Square crown 8vo. 4s.6d.

NOTITIA EUCHARISTICA.A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical, on the Order of the Administration of the Lord’s Supper, or Holy Communion, according to the Use of the Church of England. ByW. E. Scudamore,M.A., Rector of Ditchingham, and formerly Fellow ofS.John’s College, Cambridge. 8vo. 28s.

WORDS TO TAKE WITH US.A Manual of Daily and Occasional Prayers, for Private and Common Use. With Plain Instructions and Counsels on Prayer. ByW. E. Scudamore,M.A., Rector of Ditchingham, and formerly Fellow ofS.John’s College, Cambridge. New Edition. Revised. Small 8vo. 2s.6d.

“‘Words to Take with Us,’ by W. E. Scudamore, is one of the best manuals of daily and occasional prayers we have seen. At once orthodox and practical, sufficiently personal, and yet not perplexingly minute in its details, it is calculated to be of inestimable value in many a household.”—John Bull.

“We are again pleased to see an old friend on the editorial table, in a third edition ofMr.Scudamore’s well-known Manual of Prayers. The special proper collects for each day of the week, as well as those for the several seasons of the Christian year, have been most judiciously selected. The compiler moreover, while recognising the full benefits to be derived from the Book of Common Prayer, has not feared to draw largely from the equally invaluable writings of ancient Catholicity. The preface is a systematic arrangement of instructions in prayer and meditation.”—Church Review.

THE HOME LIFE OF JESUS OF NAZARETH AND OTHER SERMONS.By theRev.Augustus Gurney,M.A., Vicar of Wribbenhall, Kidderminster. Crown 8vo. 5s.

A CHURCH HISTORY OF THE FIRST SEVEN CENTURIES, to the Close of the Sixth General Council. ByMilo Mahan,D.D., sometimeS.Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary, New York. 8vo. 15s.

OUR MOTHER CHURCH: being Simple Talk on High Topics. ByAnne Mercier. Crown 8vo. 7s.6d.

“We have rarely come across a book dealing with an old subject in a healthier and, as far as may be, more original manner, while yet thoroughly practical, than ‘Our Mother Church,’ byMrs.Jerome Mercier. It is intended for and admirably adapted to the use of girls. Thoroughly reverent in its tone, and bearing in every page marks of learned research, it is yet easy of comprehension, and explains ecclesiastical terms with the accuracy of a lexicon without the accompanying dulness. It is to be hoped that the book will attain to the large circulation it justly merits.”—John Bull.

“We have never seen a book for girls of its class which commends itself to us more particularly than ‘Our Mother Church’ byMrs.Jerome Mercier. The author, who is the wife of an earnest parish priest of the Anglican school, near London, calls her work ‘simple talk on great subjects,’ and calls it by a name that describes it almost as completely as we could do in a longer notice than we can spare the volume. Here are the headings of the chapters:—‘The Primitive Church,’ ‘Primitive Places and Modes of Worship,’ ‘The Early English Church,’ ‘The Monastic Orders,’ ‘The Friars,’ ‘A Review of Church History,’ ‘The Prayer Book,’ (four chapters), ‘Symbolism,’ ‘Church Architecture,’ ‘Windows and Bells,’ ‘Church Music,’ ‘Church Work.’ No one can fail to comprehend the beautifully simple, devout, and appropriate language in whichMrs.Mercier embodies what she has to say; and for the facts with which she deals she has taken good care to have their accuracy assured.”—Standard.

“The plan of this pleasant-looking book is excellent. It is a kind ofMrs.Markham on the Church of England, written especially for girls, and we shall not be surprised to find it become a favourite in schools.... It is really a conversational hand-book to the English Church’s history, doctrine, and ritual, complied by a very diligent reader from some of the best modern Anglican sources.”—English Churchman.

THE DIVINITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; being the Bampton Lectures for 1866. ByHenry Parry Liddon,D.D.,D.C.L., Canon ofSt.Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s.

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