Messrs. Rivington's Publications EXAMINATION 21 OF CONSCIENCE UPON SPECIAL SUBJECTS. Translated and Abridged from the French of TRONSON. Forming a Volume of THE ASCETIC LIBRARY: A Series of Translations of Spiritual Works for Devotional Reading from Catholic Sources. Edited by the Rev. ORBY SHIPLEY, M.A. Square Crown 8vo. 5s. "It is a much larger and more elaborate work than is usually devoted to this subject, and arranged on a different plan. The chief virtues and sins have each a section given to them, and the examen is cast in the form of a meditation, with first, second, and third points. The enquiries made of the soul are very searching, and are so framed that selfknowledge, and as a consequence self-condemnation, most necessarily result from the conscientious use of the book. It is especially adapted for those who find a difficulty in using the ordinary manuals, and who are yet aiming at a higher life than common. For Religious Houses it will be found invaluable, more especially, perhaps, to mistresses of novices. It strikes us as a book highly sugges tive to those who conduct retreats."-CHURCH TIMES. "This is volume IV. of the series known as the Ascetic Library, and of all the volumes of the series yet published it strikes us as by far the most useful. Singularly practi cal and judicious, so that it is difficult to say to what class of persons it will be most useful -those who take it for personal use, those who adopt it as a guide in receiving confessions, or the preacher who uses it as a help in the composition of sermons addressed to the conscience rather than to the intellect. There are some excellent pages on Devotional Reading; while as to the subject of penitence it may give some idea of the method of the book to mention the headings of its successive sections Fruits of Penitence, viz. :-Hatred of Sin,-Self-Abhorrence, Love of the Cross,-Peace of Heart."-LITERARY CHURCHMAN. "It is a pleasing sign to see such books as these re-edited for the supply of so great a need. No one but a master of the spiritual life could have compiled a set of reflections so searching and yet so exalting as the book before us. We know of nothing more calculated to lay open to itself the mind of the most spiritual, to reveal the self-deceptions and snares lying in its way, and the subtle forms by which perfunctoriness insinuates itself. The book will be found beyond measure useful to all who desire to know themselves in some degree as God knows them, while to religious and to the clergy it must be an inestimable boon.”— CHURCH REVIEW. "Louis Tronson's self-questionings and meditations range over a wide field-from faith and love to God, down to the demeanour practised in working and rising, conversation, and travelling. We should be far from asserting that his book contains nothing good; on the contrary, much that is excellent in sentiment and devout in expression may be found in it."--Record. SERMONS ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS. By DANIEL 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. 75. 6d. "The Sermons which Mr. Moore has here collected into a single volume, though preached to widely differing audiences, are all distinguished by the dominant characteristic which marks all his writings-a calm sobriety of thought, feeling, and expression, well befitting the topics which he selects, but not likely to present any very new and striking thoughts, or to meet the special requirements of an eager, busy, and intellectual age. Whether preached before the Queen and the Koyal Prince, to a more select audience, or to assembled thousands under the dome of St. Paul's, they speak the same quiet thoughtful message, clothed in the same chastened language, and aiming at one effect."-STAN DARD. "We do not wonder at Mr. 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 "Sermons like those of Mr. 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. Translated into English, with an THE SHEPHERD OF HERMAS. 22 Messrs. Rivington's Publications CURIOUS MYTHS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. GOULD, M.A., Author of "Post-Medieval Preachers," &c. tions. New Edition. Complete in One Vol. Crown 8vo. "These Essays will be found to have something to satisfy most classes of readers; the lovers of legends proper, the curious in popular delusions, the initiated in Darwinian and Monboddoan theories; and if, in the chapters on Tell and Gellert, we are a little struck with the close following of Dasent's track, in his preface to the Norse tales, it must be owned that there are chapters-e.g., those on the Divining Rod, the Man in the Moon, and the Seven Sleepers-which present new matter, and deserve the praise of independent research." -QUARTERLY REVIEW. "The author, indeed, is sometimes fanciful and overbold in his conclusions; but he conducts us through marvellous ways—ways which he has studied well before he undertook to guide others; and if we do not always acquiesce in his descriptions or arguments, we By S. BARINGWith Illustra 6s. seldom differ from him without hesitation.”— ATHENÆUM. "We have no space to linger longer about a book which, apart from its didactic pretensions, is an exceedingly amusing and interesting collection of old stories and legends of the middle ages."-PALL MALL Gazette. "That, on his first visit to the varied field of medieval mythology, Mr. Baring-Gould should have culled as samples of its richness the most brilliant of the flowers that bloomed in it, is scarcely to be wondered at. But it shows how fertile is the soil when he is enabled to cull from it so goodly a second crop as that which he here presents to us. The myths treated of in the present volume vary in interest-they are all curious and well worth reading."-NOTES AND QUERIES. THE LIFE OF MADAME LOUISE DE FRANCE, daughter of Louis XV. Known also as the Mother Térèse de St. Augustin. By the Crown 8vo. 65. Author of "Tales of Kirkbeck." 'Such a record of deep, earnest, self-sacrificing piety, beneath the surface of Parisian life, during what we all regard as the worst age of French godlessness, ought to teach us all a lesson of hope and faith, let appearances be what they may. Here, from out of the court and family of Louis XV. there issues this Madame Louise, whose life is set before us as a specimen of as calm and unworldly devotion -of a devotion, too, full of shrewd sense and practical administrative talent-as any we have ever met with."-LITERARY CHURCHMAN. "On the 15th of July, 1737, Marie Leczinska, the wife of Louis XV., 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 de St. 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 of St. 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. The substance of the memoir is taken from a somewhat diffuse 'Life of Madame Louise de France, compiled by a Carmelite nun, and printed at Autun." -WESTMINSTER REVIEW. "This 'Life' relates the history of that daughter of Louis XV. who, aided by the example and instructions of a pious mother, lived an uncorrupt life in the midst of a most corrupt court, which she quitted-after longing and waiting for years to do so to enter the severe order of Mount Carmel, which she adorned by her strict and holy life. We cannot too highly praise the present work, which appears to us to be written in the most excellent good taste. We hope it may find entrance into every religious House in our Communion, and it should be in the library of every young lady." - CHURCH REVIEW. "The Life of Madame Louise de France, the celebrated daughter of Louis XV., who became a religieuse, and is known in the spiritral world as Mother Térèse de St. Augustin. The substance of the memoir is taken from a diffuse life, compiled by a Carmelite nun, and printed at Autun; and the editor, the author of Tales of Kirkbeck,' was prompted to the task by the belief, that at the present time, when the spirit of religious selfdevotion is so greatly reviving in the Church of England' the records of a princess who quitted a dazzling and profligate court to lead a life of obscure piety will meet with a cordial reception. We may remark, that should the event prove otherwise, it will not be from any fault of workmanship on the part of the editor.-DAILY TELEGRAPH. "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 renounc ing 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. THE PRIEST TO THE ALTAR; or, Aids to the Devout Celebration of Holy Communion; chiefly after the Ancient Use of Sarum. Second Edition. Enlarged, Revised, and Re-arranged with the Secretæ, Post-Communion, &c., appended to the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels, throughout the Year. 8vo. 7s. 6d. Messrs. Rivington's Publications HELP AND COMFORT FOR THE SICK POOR. Author of "Sickness; its Trials and Blessings." New Edition. 8vo. IS. 23 By the A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHURCH HISTORY. (Ancient.) Edited by JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A. (Forming the third Volume of KEYS TO CHRIStian Knowledge). Small 8vo. "It offers a short and condensed account of the origin, growth, and condition of the Church in all parts of the world, from A.D. I down to the end of the fifteenth century. Mr. Blunt's first object has been conciseness, and this has been admirably carried out, and to students of Church history this feature will readily recommend itself. As an elementary work A Key' will be specially valuable, inasmuch as it points out certain definite lines of thought, by which those who enjoy the opportunity may be guided in reading the statements of more elaborate histories. At the same time it is but fair to Mr. Blunt to remark that, for general readers, the little volume contains everything that could be consistently expected in a volume of its character. There are many notes, theological, scriptural, 2s. 6d. and historical, and the 'get up' of the book is specially commendable. As a text-book for the higher forms of schools the work will be acceptable to numerous teachers."-PUBLIC OPINION. "It contains some concise notes on Church History, compressed into a small compass, and we think it is likely to be useful as a book of reference."-JOHN BULL. "A very terse and reliable collection of the main facts and incidents connected with Church History."-ROCK. "It will be excellent, either for school or home use, either as a reading or as a reference book, on all the main facts and names and controversies of the first fifteen centuries. It is both well arranged and well written."— LITERARY CHURCHMAN. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. Bishops of the Church in general, and consolidated the Papal influence. For all this, however, unless we could satisfy ourselves with a mere magnified table of contents, the reader must be referred to the book itself, in which he will find the interest sustained without flagging to the end."-PALL MALL GAZETTE. THE POPE AND THE COUNCIL. " Beginning with a sketch of the errors and contradictions of the Popes, and of the position which, as a matter of history, they held in the early Church, the book proceeds to describe the three great forgeries by which the Papal claims were upheld-the Isidorian decretals, the donation of Constantine, and the decretum of Gratian. The last subject ought to be carefully studied by all why wish to understand the frightful tyranny of a complicated system of laws, devised not for the protection of a people, but as instruments for grinding them to subjection. Then, after an historical outline of the general growth of the Papal power in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the writers enter upon the peculiarly episcopal and clerical question, pointing out how marvellously every little change worked in one direction, invariably tending to throw the rule of the Church into the power of Rome; and how the growth of new institutions, like the monastic orders and the Inquisition, gradually withdrew the conduct of affairs from the In France, in Holland, and in Germany, there has already appeared a multitude of disquisitions on this subject. Among these several are the acknowledged compositions of men of high standing in the Roman Catholic world, -men admittedly entitled to speak with the authority that must attach to established reputation: but not one of them has hitherto produced a work more likely to create a deep impression than the anonymous German publication at the head of this notice. It is not a piece of merely polemical writing, it is a treatise dealing with a large subject in an impressive though partisan manner, a treatise grave in tone, solid in matter, and bristling with forcible and novel illustrations."-SPEC TATOR. Rumour will, no doubt, be busy with its conjectures as to the name which lurks beneath the nom de plume of Janus. We do not intend to offer any contribution towards the elucidation of the mystery, unless it be a contribution to say that the book bears internal evidence of being the work of a Catholic, and that there are not many Catholics in Europe who could have written it. Taking it all in all, it is no exaggerated praise to characterize it as the most damaging assault on Ultramontanism that has appeared in modern times. Its learning is copious and complete, yet so admirably arranged that it invariably illustrates without overlaying the argument. The style is clear and simple, and there is no attempt at rhetoric. It is a piece of cool and masterly dissection, all the more terrible for the passionless manner in which the author conducts the operation."-TIMES. 24 Messrs. Rivington's Publications FEMALE CHARACTERS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. In a Series of Sermons. By the Rev. ISAAC WILLIAMS, B. D., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. New Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. THE CHARACTERS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. In a Series of Sermons. By the Rev. ISAAC WILLIAMS, B.D., formerly Fellow of Trinity Crown 8vo., 55. College, Oxford. New Edition. "This is one of the few volumes of published sermons that we have been able to read with Mr. real pleasure, They are written with a chastened elegance of language, and pervaded by a spirit of earnest and simple piety. Williams is evidently what would be called a very High Churchman. Occasionally his peculiar Church views are apparent; but bating a few passages here and there, these sermons will be read with profit by all who profess and call themselves Christians."— CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. "This is a new edition of a very popular— and deservedly popular-work on the biography of the Old Testament history. The characters are ably and profitably analysed, and that by the hand of a master of style and thought. The principle of selection has been that of prominence; and partly, too, that of significance in the characters so ably delineated. A more masterly analysis of Scriptural characters we never read, nor any which are more calculated to impress the mind of the reader with feelings of love for what is goed, and abhorrence for what is evil."-Rock. THE WITNESS OF ST. PAUL TO CHRIST: being the Boyle Lectures for 1869. With an Appendix, on the Credibility of the Acts, in Reply to the Recent Strictures of Dr. Davidson. By the Rev. STANLEY LEATHES, M. A., Professor of Hebrew, King's College, London, and Incumbent of St. Philip's, Regent Street. 8vo. 10s. 6d. A KEY TO THE NARRATIVE OF THE FOUR GOSPELS. By JOHN PILKINGTON NORRIS, M.A., Canon of Bristol, formerly one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. (Forming the Fourth Volume of Keys to Christian Knowledge.) Small 8vo. "This is very much the best book of its kind we have seen. The only fault is its shortness, which prevents its going into the details which would support and illustrate its statements, and which in the process of illustrating them would fix them upon the minds and memories of its readers. It is however, a great improvement upon any book of its kind we know. It bears all the marks of being the condensed work of a real scholar, and of a divine too. The bulk of the book is taken up with a Life of Christ' compiled from the Four Gospels so as to exhibit its steps and stages and salient points. The rest of the book consists of inde pendent chapters on special points."-LITERARY CHURCHMAN. ་ "This book is no ordinary compendium, no mere 'cram-book'; still less is it an ordinary reading book for schools; but the schoolmaster, the Sunday-school teacher, and the seeker after a comprehensive knowledge of Divine truth will find it worthy of its name. Canon Norris writes simply, reverently, without great display of learning, giving the result of much careful study in a short compass, and adorning the subject by the tenderness and honesty 2s. 6d. that this little book will have a very wide circulation and that it will be studied; and we can promise that those who take it up will not readily put it down again."—RECORD. "This is a golden little volume. Having often to criticise unsparingly volumes published by Messrs. Rivington, and bearing the deep High Church brand, it is the greater satisfaction to be able to commend this book sə emphatically. Its design is exceedingly modest. Canon Norris writes primarily to help younger students' in studying the Gospels. But this unpretending volume is one which all students may study with advantage. It is an admirable manual for those who take Bible Classes through the Gospels. Closely sifted in style, so that all is clear and weighty; full of unostentatious learning, and pregnant with suggestion; deeply reverent in spirit, and altogether Evangelical in spirit; Ćanon Norris' book supplies a real want, and ought to be welcomed by all earnest and devout students of the Holy Gospels."-LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CATHEDRAL SYSTEM VINDICATED AND FORCED UPON MEMBERS OF CATHEDRAL FOUNDATIONS. Eight Sermons, preached in the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Norwich. By EDWARD MEYRICK GOULBURN, D.D., Dean of Norwich, late Prebendary of St. Paul's, and one of Her Majesty's Chaplains. Crown 8vo. 5s. Messrs. Rivington's Publications 25 A THEORY OF HARMONY. Founded on the Tempered Scale. With Questions and Exercises for the Use of Students. By JOHN STAINER, Mus. Doc., M.A., Magd. Coll., Oxon., Organist to St. 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 this Dr. 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 devel opes 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."-ATHENAEUM. "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 forthwith Dr. 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. Review of Public Events at Home 18s. THE ANNUAL REGISTER: A "Well edited, excellent type, good paper, and in all respects admirably got up. Its review of affairs, Home, Colonial, and Foreign, is 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 narratire 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). FABLES RESPECTING THE POPES OF THE MIDDLE DOLLINGER. Translated, with Introduction and Appendices, by ALFRED "For that large class of English readers to whom German is still a sealed book, Mr. Plummer's clear and readable version of a work of considerable historical interest, and displaying all the profound and conscientious research for which the author is distinguished, will be a most valuable boon."-SATURDAY REVIEW. "Those who are acquainted with the Ger man edition of this book of Dr. Döllinger's will be surprised, perhaps, to see the moderate pamphlet swollen in its English dress to the size of a comely volume. This may partly be accounted for by the long and able ‘Introduction' from the pen of the translator, and by Notes and Appendices with which he has elucidated portions of the text. The translation is such as may be read easily, no slight praise by the way, and the side notes indicating the contents of the paragraphs are highly serviceable in a work of this kind. Students of Church History who find an English book less trouble to read than a German one will thank the translator for the pains which he has taken in their behalf.”—CHURCH TIMES. |