and with Introduction and Notes by the Rev. J. H. Srawley, D.D. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. New York: The Macmillan Co. 1919.

The translation of these two treatises is excellently done. Begun by Mr. Thompson, it was completed after his untimely death in 1917, by Mr. F. H. Colson. We are glad to see St. Ambrose's "De Mysteris" and the anonymous "De Sacramentis" made accessible to those who find the ecclesiastical Latin of the period difficult reading. Dr. Srawley's Introduction is a splendid piece of work. It clearly sets forth all of the liturgical and doctrinal implications of these two important sets of instructions, for originally they were sermons or lectures delivered to the newly baptized Christians. Among other interesting things he brings out is that St. Ambrose was one of the first of the Latin Fathers to insist on the sacramental change of the elements of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, which teaching became the basis of the later Roman teaching that resulted, finally, in the Doctrine of Transubstantiation. This little volume can be cordially commended to all who are interested in the development of the Church's Liturgical and Doctrinal Systems.

F. C. H. W.

Texts for Students. Edited by Caroline A. J. Skeel, D.Lit.; H. J. White, D.D.; and J. P. Witney, D.D., D.C.L. 1918 and 1919. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. New York: The Macmillan Co.

Of this new series of most handy texts, seven have so far appeared: 1, Select Passages from Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio Cassius, illustrative of the Christianity of the First Century; 2, Selections from Matthew of Paris; 3, Selections from Giraldus Cambrensis; 4, Libri Sancti Patricii; 5, A Translation of the Latin Writings of St. Patrick; 6, Selections from the Vulgate; 7, The Epistle of St. Clement of Rome. The texts are all ably edited, and the translation of St. Patrick's Latin writings is very good. The introductions are all excellent, especially that to the selections from the Vulgate by Dr. White. We might have preferred to see the texts arranged in their chronological order, but the lack of this is hardly a serious fault. These booklets will be of great value to students desirous of getting some knowledge of the vast literature from which they are taken and unwilling or unable to procure the great folios themselves.

The New Citizenship. By Prof. A. T. Robertson, M.A., D.D. Fleming H. Revell Company.

This book is one of the many produced because of the late war; it is the "reaction"-to use the word now in vogue-of the author's mind to the new situation "due partly to a month with the Y. M. C. A. Army School for Secretaries at Blue Ridge, N. C." Professor Robertson has a multitudinous list of books to his credit; this one seems to be a collection of popular sermons which would be called epigrammatical, if one were polite; the Church Tramp would call them "snappy." The leadership of our Blessed Lord in our problems of the moment is shown; the author is in agreement with Chesterton and a thousand others that the world of tomorrow must be of quite a different sort from our present world, and he is in agreement with the readers of this MONTHLY that Christianity thoroughly applied is the sole solution for all our distresses. There are many good words in the book, but it does not possess an excess of the adventurous spirit, that temper which some say is the very essence of Christ's teaching; I mean that Professor Robertson says pleasantly what nearly everyone else is saying, things it is very safe to say. Certainly the Early Christians neither said nor did safe things. Of course, the question of one's duty to the state is considered; the author rightly considers the necessity of separation between Church and State; but like too many writers, he seems to have fallen into the state-cultus, which came to such tragic climax in Germany. Conscience is said to be supreme, and yet one is not to question the right of states to draft its citizens for warfare, even if, as in so many cases, the individual conscience sees its duty in the path of peace and follows that path sometimes very heroically. It is a queer thing that in this country the famous conscientious objectors have received the severest criticism from clergymen, who do not often go to battle; while some of their protagonists have been men like Lord Robert Cecil in England and some of our army officers here. It was remarked recently that at the great feasts of Easter and the Nativity during the late war, the newspapers, with rare exceptions, carried the strongest messages of religion, while the pulpits for the most part were giving a long-suffering public those things which they had so fully elsewhere. However conventional the book before us may be, deep spots are occasionally touched and the book is decently and reverently written. The man knows his Bible, and there are few things finer that one can say of anybody. ALBERT FARR.