Teaching of Ancient History: Grote's History of Greece Texts for the Holy Days of the Church Theories of Creation INDEX OF BOOKS REVIEWED OR NOTICED. Adamson's Catechetical Exercise on the Saints' Days of the English Church 192 Amateur's (an) Enquiry into difference of Style in Ancient Glass Painting 125 Antwerp, a Journal kept at 325 Armstrong's (J.) Pastor in his Closet 127 Barter's (W. B.) Gainsaying of Core 190 Bennett's (W. E. J.) Lives of certain Fathers of the Church in the Churchman's Companion 258 Cleaver's Companion for Churchmen, with Calendar, &c. for 1848 328 Clergyman's Address to his Household 326 Colonial Church Chronicle and Missionary Journal 324 Companion to the Altar Duke's Systematic Analysis of Butler's Analogy 127 Eccleston's (J.) Introduction to English Antiquities 62 Ellison's Visitation Sermon 328 Enchiridion Juvenile Gleig's (G. R.) Story of Waterloo Goodwin's (H.) Parish Sermons Go thy Way, Show thyself to the Priest: an earnest Exhortation to 192 328 192 Hudson's History and Principle of the Book of Common Prayer Hughes' (Bishop) Lecture on the Antecedent Causes of the Irish Ingle's (J.) Queen's Letters and State Services Jackson's (W.) Church's Doctrine of Predestination, the Consolation of the Elect Jesse's (E.) Favourite Haunts and Rural Studies 258 190 . 399 Layman's (A.) Address to the Members of the Episcopal Church in Scotland Life and Letters of the Rev. G. Mortimer PAGE. 61 258 Manning's (Archdeacon) Sermons 254 326 258 Masserene's (Lord) Church Melodies Massie's (J. W.) Recollections of a Tour in Belgium, Germany and 192 Switzerland Moberly's (C. E.) Stories from Herodotus Morris's (J. B.) Select Works of Ephrem the Syrian Munro's (E.) Vast Army Neale's (J. M.) Stories from the Heathen Mythology Ockley's History of the Saracens Sandford's (G. B.) Vindication of the Church of England 325 64 . 253 61 . 324 255 Psalter (The) or Psalms of David, adapted to Ancient Church Tones. Selections Spiritual and Moral from the Poetical Works of Mr. Robert Sewell's (Mrs. R.) Catechism of the History of the Early Church in Sinnett's (Mrs.) Byways of History Smith's (C. F.) Sermons Smith's (R.) Church Catechism illustrated by the Book of Common Sweet's (J. B.) Religious Liberty, and the Church in Chains . Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, Crimea, Caucasus, &c. Truefitt's (G.) Architectural Sketches on the Continent. Vidal's (Mrs.) Esther Merle, and other Tales Wilberforce's (Archdeacon) Charge Wodehouse's (Canon) Address to the Clergymen in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk Words and Principles 64 192 189 328 . 258 128 258 . 257 THE ECCLESIASTIC. RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON THE PRAYER BOOK. 1. Rituale Anglo-Catholicum; or the Testimony of the Catholic Church to the Book of Common Prayer, by the Rev. HENRY BAILEY, M.A., Fellow of S. John's College, Cambridge. J. W. Parker, London. 8vo. pp. 408. 2. Observations on the Book of Common Prayer, by the Rev, MATTHEW PLUMMER, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Heworth, Durham. London: Cleaver. 12mo. pp. 336. 3. Companion to the Prayer Book, (in Practical Christian's Library.) Parker, Oxford. 4. Popular Tracts illustrating the Prayer Book of the Church of England. Nos. I., II., and III. London: Masters. THE increased attention which has been given to the Prayer Book of late years is among the most cheering signs of the times. The few works whose titles we have prefixed to this article, are only the most recent in a succession of similar publications, which has scarcely flagged for the last five or six years. The names of Mr. Maskell, Dr. Cardwell, Messrs. Dyce, Keating, Clay, Harvey, Bulley, Bennett, besides the valuable collection published under the title of "Hierurgia Anglicana," by the "Ecclesiological Society," and a nameless host of Commentators on the Catechism, will by their bare mention be sufficient to confirm the truth of our assertion to every reader. It is with most unfeigned satisfaction that we find the current of theological research to have set so decidedly in this direction. The Prayer Book, meaning thereby that collection of VOL. IV. JULY, 1847. B formularies enumerated in the title page, and therefore excluding State Services, the Thirty-nine Articles, and the Metrical Psalms, which for one cause or other* do not properly belong to it,-is really the Voice of the Church; that voice which laity and Clergy alike are pledged, as the very condition of their communion, to reverence and obey. Moreover, the Prayer Book does seem to offer a basis of union which is more likely to be accepted by Churchmen than any other. Churchmen of all parties have been taught to respect the Prayer Book. The phrases "our beautiful," "our Scriptural," "our pure," "our Apostolical Liturgy," questionable as they are, both in point of taste and expression,† testify to the traditionary feeling in which those who are least likely to admire Catholic principles have been brought up. We indeed are old enough to remember the time when the party referred to were accustomed to circulate a tract entitled " Reading Desk versus Pulpit," which undertook to show that the Prayer Book was more "Evangelical" than the ordinary stamp of Clergy. And so, even in their technical sense of the term, undoubtedly it was. "Evangelicalism," has its right aspect, as well as a wrong one; and of this, as against the high and dry Clergy of the day, it made the most. We refer only to the fact at the present moment with the view of showing that there does really exist (at least the remains of,) a favourable feeling towards the Prayer Book in a quarter where it might least be looked for, which we shall do well to make the most of. And certainly there does appear every prospect of the genuine sense of the English Prayer Book being at length elicited. For this purpose we still look to a future period. The subject is not yet exhausted; as will be plain to every one who consults the works placed at the head of our article. Each one opens almost a new mine of research; while the palm amongst all investigators must be awarded to the, as yet we hope not completed, series of Mr. Maskell's volumes. These we only do not now refer to more particularly, because we hope hereafter to give them a separate, and more accurate review than is contemplated in this slender notice. Of the works before us, the highest place is due to the "Rituale " (we wish he had given in a more exact name,) of Mr. Bailey. It is a learned, systematic, and impartial Commentary; answering in all respects to the profession contained in the Preface and title page,-which is, to illustrate the Book of Common Prayer by extracts from the "ancient Fathers, Councils, Liturgies, and Rituals, as well as from the accredited publications of the sixteenth cen *See "Companion to the Prayer Book," p. 14. We recently met with a work, entitled "Questions and Answers upon the Liturgy," which altogether omitted all mention of that particular office. Was the writer (Mr. Colville) ignorant that "Liturgy" is the title of the Communion Office? Inaccuracies of this kind are inexcusable in those who claim to instruct others. |