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by their respective ministers, and the commission or want of it under which they were labouring ?* I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ANOTHER PRESBYTER OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH.

PROPOSED CHURCH IN PARIS FOR CELEBRATING THE ENGLISH SERVICE IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.

SIR, I beg to assure "Another Presbyter" that I had no intention of making any attack, direct or indirect, upon the association for the proposed chapel in Paris. I wrote partly for information, being curious to know whether the difficulty in respect to jurisdiction, which I was unable to solve myself, had been solved by any British bishop undertaking the superintendence; and wishing, in that case, further, to ascertain the grounds and principles of his decision. I wrote partly, also, for the sake of others, especially those whose names were given in connexion with the proposal, that if possibly the subject had escaped their notice they might have an opportunity for considering it before proceeding further with their scheme. I did not add my name, because I merely asked a question relating to public principle, on which I offered no opinion of my own.

I understand, from "Another Presbyter's" letter, that the difficulty in respect to jurisdiction has not yet been surmounted, and that no bishop of the British churches thinks himself competent to undertake the superintendence of the proposed congregation; and I learn from other quarters that consequently M. Gourrier has not yet been admitted to the priesthood.

Though I will not offer an opinion upon the immediate question, which may be presented under various aspects, each of which would require separate consideration, yet I will, with your permission, avail myself of this opportunity to throw out, for the consideration of those who may be interested in the matter, a suggestion which has frequently occupied my own mind, in respect to congregations of our own people abroad. It is this: that as the Gallican, Spanish, Milanese, and other continental churches, have this among their other rules of discipline "that whereas there are in most parts, within the same state or diocese, people of different languages mixed together, having under one faith various rites and customs: we distinctly charge the bishops of these states or dioceses to provide proper persons to celebrate divine offices, and administer the sacraments of the church according to the differences of rites and languages;" and as we are not justi

[There is little doubt that they would be so called in familiar language; and as little doubt that if the papists added a chapel it would be called "catholic;" and still less doubt that if they did, the "Presbyter" would be down upon them immediately with some such question as he has put concerning the "episcopal" church. "Another Presbyter" has spoiled all by putting in "properly;" for that is, of course, just the question. Is he prepared to say that any building which he might choose to erect, and use for his own ministrations, either out of an episcopal see, or in the see of a bishop whose orthodoxy he denied, would be "properly" called an episcopal church"?-ED.]

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fied in taking it for granted that all the bishops of the Gallican or any other dioceses will violate their own acknowledged rules of discipline, Christian courtesy and Christian charity would seem to require that opportunity should be afforded them for observing them, if so minded; I mean, that it might be well for our clergy who go upon the Continent to minister to congregations of our own people resident there, not to be content with the permission of any English or Scotch bishop, but to endeavour, by formal application, to obtain the permission of the bishop of the diocese in which they might find themselves. To this purpose it would of course be desirable and necessary that they should carry with them recommendatory letters from their own diocesans.

I cannot but think that so Christian and canonical a course would be attended with beneficial results. The application would put us as unquestionably in the right, as the refusal of it on the part of the foreign bishops would put them in the wrong. If they uncanonically and schismatically refused, our course would, I conceive, be much more clear and unexceptionable than it has ever seemed to me to be in the absence of such application. I will only make one general observation more, and that in allusion to what "Another Presbyter" has said about "pure religion"—namely, that our most legitimate course of endeavouring to propagate pure religion in other Christian churches, and therefore that from which success may most reasonably be expected, seems to me to be rather frank and open communication with the pastors, than underhand seduction of the people.

Happily, we may expect ere long to have some light thrown upon this difficult question by the church in the United States; it having been referred to a committee there to draw up "regulations for the conduct of missionaries abroad, where the church is formed." The point immediately aimed at was, the intercourse with the Oriental churches; but that with the papal churches under the Roman obedience must necessarily also come under consideration. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A PRESBYTER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

NOTICES AND REVIEWS.

Narrative of a Voyage from Liverpool to Alexandria, touching at the Island of Malta, and from thence to Beirout in Syria; with a Journey to Jerusalem, Voyage from Jaffa to Cyprus and Constantinople, and a Pedestrian Journey from Constantinople through Turkey, Wallachia, Hungary, and Prussia, to the Town of Hamburg, in the Years 1836-7. By the Rev. Nathanael Burton, LL.D., late Assistant Chaplain to the Garrison of Dublin, and to the Royal Artillery. Dublin: Yates. 12mo. pp. 335. 1838.

THE title page of this book is almost a table of contents to the volume itself. The author appears to have travelled generally in a manner different from the ordinary mode of English travellers. He seems to have been singularly hardy and careless of fatigue or inconvenience. While some books of travels instruct one from their authors' having VOL. XV.-Jan. 1839.

taken every pains to qualify themselves for deriving profit and intellectual improvement from their peregrinations, it must be acknowledged that the entertainment to be derived from this volume proceeds from an entirely different source. The author naïvely says in his preface, that he did not go by any means prepared, in the ordinary manner of tourists and travellers-that his funds were small, when compared with the magnitude of the undertaking-that he understood little or nothing of the languages commonly spoken in those countries he visited, &c." When he set out, he intended merely to reside in the South of Europe, but circumstances induced him to alter his destination, and hence his various wanderings. At Jerusalem his funds were reduced to five guineas, and what he could make by the sale of some of his effects; and on this sum he determined to start on his homeward way. The difficulties which a person so situated must have encountered may easily be imagined, especially in a pedestrian journey through countries where with scarcely one person in a hundred he could establish any common channel of communication. Occasionally he travelled round and round about, making scarcely any progress, and from mistaking the directions he received by signs and otherwise, between Rutuke and Bucharest, he travelled forty miles of difficult road to no purpose-except to go out of his way. The interest of such a volume of travels, it is clear, must consist chiefly in the personal adventures of the author, and it may be said that he has described all that befel him in a simple and naïve manner. He expresses his opinion that the Jews are still under the peculiar tutelage of the Almighty, and he appeals to his own experience as proving them constantly the harbingers of blessings to those around them. That these notions are just, it is needless here to state; enough has been said to point out the nature of this volume, and those who are interested in reading an unvarnished tale of odd adventures, and in knowing exactly what a person travelling in this unusual manner, and in these wild places, would see and hear, will find considerable entertainment from these pages. Parts of the account of Jerusalem are interesting enough.

Geraldine: a Sequel to Coleridge's Christabel; with other Poems. By Martin Farquhar Tupper, Esq., Author of " Proverbial Philosophy." London : Rickerby. pp. 217.

1838.

MR. TUPPER is already known as the author of one work of considerable merit. The present attempt, as far as the longest poem in the book is concerned, must be acknowledged to be a bold one. The reviewer does not pretend to pass any judgment on Geraldine, considered as a continuation of Christabel. Christabel is a poem sui generis; it stands quite alone. Its author hoped once to complete it himself, but, probably, never hazarded any attempt of the kind after its publication. The hand that strung the lyre to Christabel was one of singular power and delicacy of touch; it would almost seem as if the lyre itself were broken in the effort that produced the poem. However, Mr. Tupper has attempted to re-string this lyre; and if his

poem be judged without reference to that on which it is founded, it may be said to possess imagination and spirit. The opening of the second part-the description of morning-struck the reviewer as one of the best passages in it, and to be written with much animation. The other poems are very miscellaneous. The contrasted sonnets are ingenious-perhaps in some instances more ingenious than true. The shades of merit in these miscellaneous poems are very various, some of them good, but others which it would be wiser not to publish, in order to establish a name as a poet. Ellen Gray is powerfully written; but in the reviewer's opinion it is doubtful whether it be well to take such a subject. Mr. Tupper, who is a man of considerable power and thought, will excuse these observations. It is, perhaps, a greater compliment when it is thought worth while to make such remarks than to give a mere general expression of approbation.

Sermons on the Temptation of Christ in the Wilderness. By the Rev. E. Scobell, A.M., Incumbent of St. Peter's, Vere-street, and Evening Lecturer of the Parochial Church, St. Mary-le-bone. London: Burns. Small 8vo. pp. 156.

1838.

THE greater portion of these sermons appear to be occupied in shewing the analogy between the temptations to which our Lord was exposed in the wilderness, and those by which Satan attacks mankind in all ages. Some portions of them are ingenious, and shew a knowledge of human nature; and the practical applications are strong and

earnest.

Twenty Essays on the Practical Development of God's Providential Dispensations; as Means of Moral Discipline to the Christian. London: Seeleys. 12mo. pp. 191. 1838.

THESE essays are on very miscellaneous subjects-Providence, Self Knowledge, Retrospection, Daily Life, Equanimity, Poverty, Sickness, Affliction, Prosperity, Society, Conversation, Friendship, Religious Associations, Books, Biography, History, Things seen, Tempest, Means of Grace. Although they do not appear to the reviewer to contain any evidences of much power or very comprehensive grasp, they are the work of a thoughtful and amiable mind, and written in a very agreeable style. They will therefore give pleasure, and their aim is, the good of man.

S. Clementis Romani, S. Ignatii, S. Polycarpi, Patrum Apostolicorum, quæ supersunt. accedunt S. Ignatii et S. Polycarpi Martyria. Ad fidem codicum recensuit, adnotationibus variorum et suis illustravit, indicibus instruxit. Gulielmus Jacobson, A.M. Aulæ B. Mariæ Magdalenæ Vice-Principalis, Collegii Exoniensis nuper socius. Oxonii: e Typographeo Academico. 2 tomi. 8vo.

1838.

Ir is pleasant in these days to meet with something which reminds one of other times, when learning was not considered superfluous, nor was it thought that it could be acquired by the royal road of penny treatises. The habit of editing Greek and Latin works with English notes has been one means of letting down the tone of scholar

ship among us far too much, and a work like the present must be hailed with pleasure, not only for its intrinsic value, but as an earnest of a reviving taste for sounder scholarship. These volumes contain, of course, the most valuable remains of primitive antiquity, and this edition has some advantages over all its predecessors. The editor has made full use of all the stores collected by former editors, and especially consulted all the most remarkable of more modern authorities on these questions such as the German writers on Ecclesiastical History, &c. He has himself collated the chief MSS., in England, at Florence, at Rome, &c., and has added very largely to former commentators on these most interesting authors by very valuable notes of his own. The beauty of the type also is such as to seduce even the lazy readers of these days into a little Greek reading, while, for their comfort, they have the Latin translation by its side, which is here valuable as a sort of separate authority. The edition of Russell, which was scarce and dear, will, of course, be superseded by this, which will become an indispensable appendage to every theological library. The Patres Apostolici of Cotelerius, however, contains so much more than these volumes that were it merely for those parts of it which cannot easily be met with in a separate form, his work will always be of the highest value and importance. That part of it which Mr. Jacobson has here re-edited will be more easily studied in this later edition. Mr. Jacobson deserves great thanks for his labours.

A Collection of the Principal Liturgies used in the Christian Church, in the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist, particularly the Ancient; viz., the Clementine, as it stands in the Book called the Apostolical Constitutions; the Liturgies of St. James, St. Mark, &c. Translated into English by several hands; with a Dissertation upon them, shewing their Usefulness and Authority, and pointing out their several Corruptions and Interpolations. By Thomas Brett, LL.D. London Rivingtons. Nottingham Dearden. pp. 465. 1838.

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As far as the writer has observed, this is a verbatim reprint from the old edition of 1720, which has for some years been a scarce book. It is too late a period to enter on a critical examination of a book which has been more than a century before the world; but a few remarks may be made as to its nature, because, from its scarceness, it has been comparatively little known. It was written by Dr. Brett, the learned non-juror, and its object was to shew that our office for the administration of the Holy Communion is deficient in certain particulars, (1, the mixing water with the wine; 2, the oblation of the elements to God the Father; 3, the invocation of the Holy Spirit upon them; and, 4, the commemoration of the faithful departed,) which were, in his opinion, essential to the valid administration of the Holy Eucharist. These points (see Dissertation, p. 404, &c.) caused a schism among the non-jurors themselves, some considering them only desideranda, and others thinking them absolutely essential. It is therefore a question to be handled with considerable caution, and Dr. Brett's work is not one which the writer would recommend

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