and at Jerusalem with the Greek and the Armenian Patriarchs, and the Syrian Bishop. A very hearty welcome was accorded to myself and my friends, of whom the Dean of Chester was one, and deep sympathy was expressed in the welfare of the English Church and people. The Ármenian Patriarch referred with gratitude to the efforts which are being made in England to promote education among his countrymen, and spoke of the meeting held last summer for this purpose in the Jerusalem Chamber, under the presidency of Dean Stanley, whose death he deplored" (p. 19).

At Cyprus he consecrated several English cemeteries, and we learn that "the services of consecration were attended, not only by our countrymen-civilian and military-but also by the Archbishop of Cyprus, the Bishops of Citium and Cyrenia, and other dignitaries of the Greek Church" (p. 22).

The question, “What does Mr. Shorthouse mean by John Inglesant?" has not been answered, nor do we profess to answer it. Did he mean to show what a man of good natural instincts would become under Jesuit teaching? His hero is a compound of good and bad such as never could have existed in reality—a man capable of self-devotion, able to apprehend religion, and free from vulgar vices, and at the same time, in the true sense of the word, a thoroughly immoral man; a man who, if he had been bidden by those above him, would have committed any crime, and considered it a noble action; a man who lies without hesitation in a good cause; a man so wanting in the first elements of chivalry, that the fact that the woman whom he loves, and whom he afterwards makes his wife, threw herself upon his protection, serves as a temptation to him, which he resists, but is inclined afterwards to regret that he has done so ; a man who, having been engaged in the tragedy of the fall and death of Charles I., could go and live a dilettante life in Italy, without a care or thought of the part that he had played, or the persons with whom he had associated,—and yet this man would seem to the world (whether or no he seems so to the author we cannot tell) a highly polished, moral, and religious man!

Mr. Shorthouse has done a wrong, which he is bound to atone for, to Charles I., by helping to stamp upon him that character of falsehood which Macaulay falsely attributed to him, in order that he might excuse the wrong-doing of his enemies. And he misrepresents the king's relations with the Jesuits, some of whom were at that very time preaching against him under the guise of fanatical Anabaptists. His apprehension of the Laudian school of divines is wanting in breadth and depth.

Schloss and Town is one of those graceful tales which have made the name of the authoress, Frances Mary Peard, so well known to a large and increasing circle of readers. The story is that of a projected marriage between the son of the high-born but poor family at the Hall and the daughter of the rich manufacturer who has settled hard by. There are difficulties of all sorts to be got over-diffi. culties on the side of the elders-difficulties on the side of the young people themselves, who do not approve of being sold either for rank or wealth. But by the end of the tale they have been got over, and the various antagonists understand and value one another. They have, however, had all of them to undergo a sharp discipline, "till pride be quelled and love be free." As usual, the authoress shows a deep love of nature and of animals, and she depicts her men and women with a skill that makes us thoroughly acquainted with each of them, from the baron to the poacher. The scene is laid for the most part in Germany. We leave our readers to learn the story for themselves.

Mr. Mozley's Reminiscences are inexact: all reminiscences are. And they contain statements which had better not have been published books of this character always do. The special fault of the book consists, first, in depicting his own mind as being in the pitiful state of confusion in which it might have been for a short time under the pressure of theological perplexity, but which we are quite sure it has long since cleared itself of; and, secondly, in elevating Dr. Newman (of whom, as his brother-in-law, he knows most) so far above his compeers. The Archbishop of Canterbury's notice of the work in Macmillan's Review is not happy. Its object is to prove how much more beneficial Arnoldism would have been than Tractarianism. Such a proposition, if it were true, could not be proved, as it partakes of the nature of a prophecy; nor is it well that the Archbishop should return, in his mellowed old age, to the partizanships of his youth.

The Bishop of Lincoln has printed his paper read at the Derby Church Congress, On the Controversy with Rome, in a separate form (Lincoln, Williamson), at the price of one penny. It points out, in a popular manner, the vantage-ground which the Church of England holds over Protestant Nonconformity in the struggle with Rome.

THE ANGLO-CONTINENTAL SOCIETY.

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the operations of the Society in relation to M. Hyacinthe Loyson. In the year 1878 he attended the Conference at Farnham, called by our President, to consider the state of religion on the Continent of Europe and in the East, and there appealed for help, spiritual and temporal. His appeal having been answered sympathetically by the Bishops of Western New York, Lichfield, and Moray and Ross, M. Loyson, after consultation with Dr. Nevin and your Secretary, formally petitioned the Archbishop of Canterbury to be placed under the provisional superintendence of the Anglican Episcopate. His petition was granted, and at the request of the Archbishop and a Committee of Bishops appointed at the Lambeth Conference, the Bishop of Moray undertook the onerous task of supervising his efforts, associating the Bishop of Edinburgh with himself in it. At the same time a Committee of our Society was appointed, consisting of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Winchester, Lincoln, Meath, Moray and Ross, Edinburgh, Western New York, Long Island, North Carolina, Drs. Potter and Lee, Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart., and Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P.; the Secretaries being the Revs. F. Meyrick, Dr. Nevin, and L. M. Hogg ; and Mr. F. A. White, Treasurer. In 1880 this Committee was enlarged by the addition of the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Lichfield, Bishop Oxenden, Lord Mount Temple, the Dean of Westminster, the Rev. R. T. Davidson, the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Fremantle, Sir Walter James, Bart., Sir James Lacaita, Rev. J. Long, Rev. R. S. Oldham, and H. Palmer, Esq. By the medium of this Committee we have transmitted to Paris, for the support of M. Loyson and his congregation, the following sums raised specially for France :

In the summer of 1882, M. Loyson came to London, and there was formed for his provisional maintenance a new Committee, unconnected with our Society, of which Lord Mount Temple is

Chairman, and J. W. Probyn, Esq., Secretary. This committee has undertaken the task of finding the funds still necessary for M. Loyson's support, and our French Fund is set free for the larger work of cherishing and encouraging reforming efforts on Old Catholic principles throughout the whole of France. At the same time, our funds will be available for M. Loyson and his congregation whenever we think proper so to employ them. There is a great field in France, both among the few who, like the Abbé Laurent, from time to time leave, or have left, the National Church, and among the many who professedly belong to the Roman Catholic Church, but do not hold its doctrines or obey its injunctions, but nevertheless believe in Christianity. If these persons (of both sexes), both within and without the Church, can be stimulated into activity, they may profoundly affect the French Church and nation, in spite of the shackles which the bishops have fastened on their own limbs by accepting the Vatican decrees, and the little liberty enjoyed by the priests of speaking or acting as they think.

Italy. At the end of last year it was thought that the time was ripe for a movement on Old Catholic principles in Rome, under the auspices of Count Campello. The following is the public statement of his belief and ecclesiastical position, made at the end of the year 1881

"I accept whole and entire the faith of the Christian, Catholic, and Apostolic Church which was formerly expressed in the ancient Creed of Nicæa, and developed in conformity with the divine revelation in the six Ecumenical Councils. I accept, in a word, that faith which the Catholic Church has always and everywhere taught, and which was by all received as divine.

"In conformity with this Catholic faith I hold the sacred hierarchy to be of divine institution. This, according to the evidence of Clemens Romanus and of St. Ignatius, martyr, both disciples of the Apostles, and also by the witness of the Apostolic canons, consisted of bishops, priests, and deacons, who are ordained by the laying on of hands, and are all called by Paul, ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.'

"I hold the election of the bishops and of the parish priests by the clergy and the Christian laity to be of divine and therefore inalienable right—a right which should be exercised in conformity with the rules of the sacred canons.

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"I recognize in the Pope of Rome a certain primacy of moral influence -a primacy of universal love and solicitude-which primacy, however, by the divine institution of the Episcopate, gives him no other place than that of Primus inter equales. I reject at the same time every other attribute whatever, prerogative, title, whether of honour or of jurisdiction,

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in the Pope, and especially the decree of his personal infallibility, promulgated in the Vatican Council of 1870.

"I hold the sacred liturgy, or the public worship offered to God, to be of apostolic and therefore divine institution, and that this should be rendered in accordance with the Synodical ordering of the different national branches of the Catholic Church, and therefore in the tongue spoken and understood of the people, and especially that the Holy Bible should be read so that the people, together with the priest, may understand all that God says in His revelation, and that they may be able to respond in the prayers.

Although I hold ecclesiastical celibacy, or the state of one who has renounced marriage for the sake of religion, to be a state of holiness and perfection highly acceptable unto God, I, nevertheless, reject as absurd the supposition that it was the intention of Christ and His Apostles to make it a law obligatory on the priesthood. It was never prescribed in the ancient Church. On the contrary, this virtue of continency has never been universally practised. For this reason the law of celibacy must be regarded as unjust, tyrannical, and contrary to the very law of God. Therefore it should be abolished.

"I hold, finally, the institution of confession to be wholesome and divine, but it must be free and moral."

Count Campello began with the press as preparatory to further efforts. The Labaro was issued daily. But it was found before long that the Count had been too sanguine in his anticipations. At the end of about six months it appeared that the Labaro had not secured a sufficient number of subscribers to pay its expenses, and the fund with which it was started was exhausted. Its publication therefore ceased, and the realization of the rest of the programme was deferred. We furnished him with £90 for this effort, which, though it has not met with present success, has been far from fruitless, and will lead on to further action. At this moment Count Campello is desirous of coming to England to study the working of the English Church. Count Giulio Tasca has been continuing his quiet work in behalf of the Society, in the various ways open to him, during the year.

Spain and Portugal.-We have again to thank our Vice-President, Lord Plunket, for informing us of the steps that are being taken for organizing the Reformed congregations in these countries on an episcopal basis.

Germany and Switzerland.-The visit of the two Old Catholic Bishops to England took place so soon before the publication of our last Report, that we were able only to introduce a short notice of it there. A full account will be found in a pamphlet published at the beginning of the present year, entitled, Account of the Visit to England of the Old Catholic Bishops, a copy of which has been sent

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