6 Messrs. Rivington's Publications Crown LETTERS FROM ROME ON THE COUNCIL. BY QUIRINUS. Reprinted from the "Allgemeine Zeitung." Authorised Translation. 8vo. 125. Their calm criticism of the proceedings of the Council, their dignified remonstrance against the proceedings of the Roman Curia, and their outspoken fears as to the results which will follow upon the proclamation of the dogma of Infallibility, must have done much to strengthen and consolidate the Opposition (as it is called) in the Council. A word as to the translation. It reads like an English work-the similarity between this and Janus' will suggest itself at once.". ATHENAEUM. "It is not much more than a twelvemonth since we noticed at some length the English translation of the remarkable work of Janus' on the Pope and the Council, which has since passed rapidly through three editions, and has commanded hardly less attention in this country than in Germany. "Janus' closed with a sorrowful prediction that, whatever else might be said of the Vatican Synod, it would have no claim to be considered a free assembly, and the volume now before us is one long illustration from beginning to end of the justice of that anticipation. The two books, though evidently emanating from different authorship, have much in common. Both, as we are assured, are 'exclusively the work of Catholics; both represent the same school of religious thought; both give evidence of deep learning, though there is of course more scope for its direct application in the earlier volume; both are written with consummate ability and unmistakeable earnestness, and in a clear and lucid style; and both, we may add, are admirably translated. The English reader, if he had not referred to the title page, might easily suppose that the Letters were from the pen of a countryman of his own. But it is not in graces of style, still less on any artificial ornament, that the book depends for its grave and permanent interest. It tells a plain unvarnished tale, the more impressive from its severe and terrible simplicity, which intimately concerns the credit and prospects of the Papacy and Roman Catholic hierarchy, and bears indirectly, but not less really, on the future, not only of the vast organization under their rule, but of universal Christendom. Several points of interest we have been compelled to pass over for want of space, but this is the less to be regretted as the Letters of Quirinus' are pretty sure by this time to be in the hands of very many of our readers. Whatever may be the final upshot of the conflict evoked by the Vatican Synod in the bosom of the Roman Catholic Church-and it will probably take years before we see the end of it-this collection will retain a permanent value as a faithful record of one of the most remarkable phenomena of the present eventful century, which must inevitably leave its mark for good or for evil, though in a very different way from what its promoters designed, on the future of Christianity and the Christian Church.”—SATURDAY REVIEW. A GLOSSARY OF ECCLESIASTICAL TERMS. Containing "Mr. Shipley and his coadjutors deserve great praise the chief share being of course the editor's due-for the industry and care with which this Glossary' has been compiled and for the completeness which it possesses. We have not found, as far as our search has gone, anything missing or anything like a blunder. Its brevity is especially admirable. It would be difficult to find as much information crowded into equal space." -SPECTATOR. "The last fruits of Mr. Orby Shipley's unwearied toil as an editor, lie before us in the form ofA Glossary of Ecclesiastical Terms, an octavo volume of more than 500 pages of small type, containing without doubt the very greatest number of vocables we have Edited by the Rev. ORBY seen in a dictionary of the kind."-UNION REVIEW. "A laborious and painstaking work, and will be found of very great service as a book of reference."--CHURCH TIMES. "Mr. Shipley deserves the cordial thanks of Churchmen for his laborious work. The book is admirably arranged, the double columns and the use of special type for the headings of the several paragraphs, not only making it a handsome piece of typographical work, but rendering it thoroughly clear for reference. It is a Dictionary which laity and clergy alike ought to possess, and we trust it will have, as it deserves, a remunerative sale."-CHURCHMAN'S SHILLING MAGAZINE. NOTITIA EUCHARISTICA. A Commentary, Explanatory, Doctrinal, and Historical, on the Order of the Administration of the Lord's Supper, or Holy Communion, according to the Use of the Church of England. By W. E. SCUDAMORE, M. A., Rector of Ditchingham, and formerly Fellow of S. John's College, Cambridge. 8vo. 285. Messrs. Rivington's Publications 7 A KEY TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHURCH HISTORY (Modern). Edited by the Rev. JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A. Forming a New Volume of "KEYS TO CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE." Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. A KEY TO CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE FOUNDED ON THE CHURCH CATECHISM. By the Rev. JOHN HENRY BLUNT, M.A. (Forming a Volume of "KEYS TO CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.") Small 8vo. "Of cheap and reliable text-books of this nature there has hitherto been a great want. We are often asked to recommend books for use in Church Sunday-schools, and we therefore take this opportunity of saying that we know of none more likely to be of service both to teachers and scholars than these Keys."" CHURCHMAN'S SHILLING MAGAZINE. "This is another of Mr. Blunt's most useful manuals, with all the precision of a school book, yet diverging into matters of practical application so freely as to make it most serviceable, either as a teacher's suggestion book, or as an intelligent pupil's reading book."LITERARY CHURCHMAN. "Will be very useful for the higher classes in Sunday-schools, or rather for the fuller THE PSALMS. 2s. 6d. instruction of the Sunday-school teachers themselves, where the parish priest is wise enough to devote a certain time regularly to their preparation for their voluntary task."UNION REVIEW. "Another of the many useful books on theological and Scriptural subjects which have been written by the Rev. John Henry Blunt. The present is entitled A Key to Christian Doctrine and Practice, founded on the Church Catechism, and will take its place as an elementary text-book upon the Creed in our schools and colleges. The Church Catechism is clearly and fully explained by the author in this Key,' Numerous references, Scriptural and otherwise, are scattered about the book."-PUBLIC OPINION. Translated from the Hebrew. With Notes, . chiefly Exegetical. By WILLIAM KAY, D.D., Rector of Great Leighs; late Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta. "Dr. Kay's exegetical notes, though brief, are for the most part admirable, and we can on the whole cordially recommend this portion of the word."-CHURCH TIMES. "Like a sound Churchman, he reverences Scripture, upholding its authority against sceptics; and he does not denounce such as differ from him in opinion with a dogmatism unhappily too common at the present day. Hence, readers will be disposed to consider his conclusions worthy of attention; or perhaps to adopt them without inquiry. It is superfluous to say that the translation is better and more accurate on the whole than our received one, or that it often reproduces the sense of the original happily."--ATHENÆUM. "Dr. Kay has profound reverence for 8vo. 12s. 6d. Divine truth, and exhibits considerable reading, with the power to make use of it.”— BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. "The execution of the work is careful and scholarly."-UNION REVIEW. "To mention the name of Dr. Kay is enough to secure respectful attention to his new translation of the Psalms. It is enriched with exegetical notes containing a wealth of sound learning, closely occasionally, perhaps too closely condensed. Good care is taken of the student not learned in Hebrew; we hope the Doctor's example will prevent any abuse of this consideration, and stimulate those who profit by it to follow him into the very text of the ancient Revelation."-JOHN BULL. HISTORICAL NARRATIVES. From the Russian. By H. C. ROMANOFF, Author of "Sketches of the Rites and Customs of the GrecoRussian Church," &c. Crown 8vo. "These narratives have been translated from the Russian by M. Romanoff. They relate to certain Russian customs, and to one or two Russian celebrities. English readers will be most interested by the sketches given of the lives of the Empress Catherine and the Emperor Paul. The particulars given of Catherine's peculiarities and habits of life, and of her favourites, are curious, and very characteristic of the Semiramis of the North. 65. Two of her favourites are glanced at-Orloff and Potemkin- and we are told that when Catherine, at the age of sixty-two, heard of the death of the latter, she felt it so keenly that she wept. The narratives are from sources of undoubted veracity."-STANDARD. "The reader will find Historical Narratives' an entertaining and instructive book, and will not regret the few hours spent in its perusal.""-NATION (N. Y.) RECOLLECTIONS OF OBER-AMMERGAU IN 1871. By HENRY NUTCOMBE OXENHAM, M. A., late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. 8 Messrs. Rivington's Publications CONSOLING THOUGHTS IN SICKNESS. Edited by HENRY BAILEY, B.D., Warden of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. Large type. Fine Edition. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. Also, a Cheap Edition, Is. 6d. ; or in paper cover, Is. AIDS TO PRAYER; OR, THOUGHTS ON THE PRACTICE OF DEVOTION. With Forms of Prayer for Private Use. By DANIEL MOORE, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, and Vicar of Holy Trinity, Paddington, Author of "Sermons on Special Occasions," Hulsean Lectures on "The Age and the Gospel," &c. Second Edition. Square 32mo. 2s. 6d. "The valuable characteristic of this work will be recognised by every serious, thoughtful Christian, in a word, by all who perceive and lament the growing tendency to prefer the claims of external service, ecclesiastical controversy, or multiplied activities to the practice of private devotion. 'Aids to Prayer' offers both encouragement and help to those who aspire to higher attainments in the Divine Life. Every page bears the impress of a matured judgment, and of an experimental acquaintance with a subject confessedly dif ficult, and of supreme importance."-RECORD. "Eloquently, ably, and practically written." -ENGLISH CHURCHMAN. "Aids to Prayer' has deservedly reached a second edition. The sermon method of treatment has been wisely discontinued." -JOHN BULL. THE TWO BROTHERS, and other Poems. By EDWARD HENRY BICKERSTETH, M.A., Vicar of Christ Church, Hampstead, and Chaplain' to the Bishop of Ripon, Author of "Yesterday, To-day, and for Ever." Second Edition. Small 8vo. 6s. "Mr. Bickersteth is already known to fame A KEY TO THE ACTS OF (Forming a Volume of "KEYS TO CHRISTIAN Knowledge.") "It is a remarkably well-written and interesting account of its subject, The Book of the Acts,' giving us the narrative of St. Luke with exactly what we want in the way of connecting links and illustrations. One most notable and praiseworthy characteristic of the book is its candour. The book is one which we can heartily recommend."– SPECTATOR. "Of Canon Norris's Key to the Narrative of the Four Gospels, we wrote in high approval not many months ago. The present is not less carefully prepared, and is full of the unostentatious results of sound learning and patient thought."-LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW. This little volume is one of a series of 'Keys' of a more or less educational character, which are in the course of publication by Messrs. Rivington. It gives apparently a very fair and tolerably exhaustive résumé of the contents of the Acts, with which it deals, not chapter by chapter, but consecutively in the order of thought."-SCHOOL BOARD CHRON ICLE. 2s. 6d. "Few books have ever given us more unmixed pleasure than this. It is faultlessly written, so that it reads as pleasantly and enticingly as if it had not the least intention of being an educational' book. It is complete and exhaustive, so far as the narrative and all its bearings go, so that students may feel that they need not be hunting up other books to supply the lacunæ. It is the work of a classical scholar, and it leaves nothing wanting in the way of classical illustrations, which in the case of the Acts are of special importance. And, lastly, it is theologically sound."— LITERARY CHURCHMAN. Messrs. Rivington's Publications 9 BRIGHSTONE SERMONS. By GEORGE MOBERLY, D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d. THE SAYINGS OF THE GREAT FORTY DAYS, Between the Resurrection and Ascension, regarded as the Outlines of the Kingdom of God. In Five Discourses. With an Examination of Dr. Newman's Theory of Development. By GEORGE MOBERLY, D.C.L., Bishop of Salisbury. Fourth Edition. Uniform with Brighstone Sermons. Crown 8vo. 75. 6d. A SELECTION FROM THE SPIRITUAL LETTERS OF S. FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA. Translated by the Author of "Life of S. Francis de Sales," " A Dominican Artist," &c., &c. Crown 8vo. 6s. "This is a necessary sequel, and appropriate companion, to the Life of S. Francis de Sales, by the same able translator, which was published a few months since. It is a collection of epistolary correspondence of rare interest and excellence. With those who have read the Life, there cannot but have been a strong desire to know more of so beautiful a character as S. Francis de Sales. He was a model of Christian saintliness and religious virtue for all time, and one everything relating to whom, so great were the accomplishments of his mind as well as the devotion of his heart, has a charm which delights, instructs, and elevates." -CHURCH HERALD. "A few months back we had the pleasure of The welcoming the Life of S. Francis de Sales. Here is the promised sequel:-the 'Selection from his Spiritual Letters' then announced:and a great boon it will be to many. Letters are addressed to people of all sorts:to men and to women-to laity and to ecclesiastics, to people living in the world, or at court, and to the inmates of Religious Houses. And what an idea it gives one of the widely ramifying influence of one good man and of the untiring diligence of a man, who in spite of all his external duties, could find or make the time for all these letters. We hope that with our readers it may be totally needless to urge such a volume on their notice."LITERARY CHURCHMAN. S. FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA. By the Author of "A Dominican Artist," "Life of Madame "To those who have read the previous works by the author of this Life of S. Francis de Sales, it is unnecessary for us to say a word of commendation of the present volume. It is written with the delicacy, freshness, and absence of all affectation which characterised the former works by the same hand, and which render these books so very much more pleasant reading than are religious biographies in general. The character of S. Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, is a charming one; a more simple, pure, and pious life it would be difficult to conceive. His unaffected humility, his freedom from dogmatism in an age when dogma was placed above religion, his freedom from bigotry in an age of persecution, were alike admirable." STANDARD. "The author of A Dominican Artist,' in writing this new life of the wise and loving Bishop and Prince of Geneva, has armed less at historical or ecclesiastical investigation than at a vivid and natural representation of the inner mind and life of the subject of his biography, as it can be traced in his own writings and in those of his most intimate and affectionate friends. The book is written with the grave and quiet grace which characterizes the productions of its author, and cannot fail to please those readers who can sympathize with all forms of goodness and devotion to noble purpose."-WESTMINSTER REVIEW. "A book which contains the record of a life as sweet, pure, and noble, as any man by divine help, granted to devout sincerity of soul, has been permitted to live upon earth. . worthy of acceptance."-DAILY NEWS. The accomplished author to whom we owe the recent life of Père Besson, the Dominican, has laid us under a fresh debt of gratitude by a later work, a biography of S. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneva. It is not a translation or adaptation, but an original work, and a very charming portrait of one of the most winning characters in the long gallery of Saints. And it is a matter of entire thankfulness to us to find a distinctively Anglican writer setting forward the good Bishop's work among Protestants, as a true missionary task to reclaim souls from deadly error, and bring them back to the truth."UNION REVIEW. THOMAS À KEMPIS, OF THE IMITATION OF CHRIST. Also a Cheap Edition, without the red borders, Is., or in Cover, 6d. THE RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY LIVING. By THE RULE AND EXERCISES OF HOLY DYING. By The 'HOLY LIVING' and the 'HOLY DYING' may be had bound together in "An extremely well-printed and well got up edition, as pretty and graceful as possible, and yet not too fine for real use. We wish the devotions of this beautiful book were more commonly used."- LITERARY CHURCH MAN. "We must admit that there is a want of helps to spiritual life amongst us. Our age is so secular, and in religious movements so bustling, that it is to be feared the inner life is too often forgotten. Our public teachers may, we are sure, gain by consulting books which show how contentedness and self-renunciation may be increased; and in which the pathology of all human affections is treated with a fulness not common in our theological class rooms -FREEMAN. "The publishers have done good service by the production of these beautiful editions of works, which will never lose their preciousness to devout Christian spirits. It is not necessary for us to say a word as to their intrinsic merits; we have only to testify to the good taste, judgment, and care shown in these editions. They are extremely beautiful in typography and in the general getting up."ENGLISH INDEPENDENT. "We ought not to conclude our notice of recent devotional books, without mentioning to our readers the above new, elegant, and cheap reprint, which we trust will never be out of date or out of favour in the English branch of the Catholic Church."-LITERARY CHURCHMAN. "These manuals of piety written by the pen of the most beautiful writer and the most impressive divine of the English Church, need no commendation from us. They are known to the world, read in all lands, and translated, we have heard, into fifty different languages. For two centuries they have fed the faith of thousands upon thousands of souls, now we trust happy with their God, and perhaps meditating in Heaven with gratitude on their celestial truths, kindled in their souls by a writer who was little short of being inspired." -ROCK. "These little volumes will be appreciated as presents of inestimable value."-PUBLIC OPINION, "Either separate or bound together, may be had these two standard works of the great divine. A good edition very tastefully printed and bound."-RECORD. A SHORT AND PLAIN INSTRUCTION FOR THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE LORD'S SUPPER; to which is annexed the Office of the Holy Communion, with proper Helps and Directions. By THOMAS WILSON, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. Complete Edition, in large type. Also a Cheap Edition, without the red borders, Is., or in Cover, 6d. "The Messrs. Rivington have published a new and unabridged edition of that deservedly popular work, Bishop Wilson on the Lord's Supper. The edition is here presented in three forms, suited to the various members of the household."-PUBLIC OPINION. |