10 OCTOBER 1868, Page 24

Sermons on Unity. By F. C. Masaingberd, M.A., Chancellor of

Lincoln. (Rivingtons.)—In the Sermons on Unity we can see little merit but that of brevity. Three sermons in twenty-four small octavo pages,—that ought to satisfy the most restless church-goer. But an essay on "Church of England Religious Societies," reprinted from the Christian Remembrancer of July, 1850, is worth reading. It is an inter- esting record of a phase of spiritual life which assumed considerable importance in the early part of the eighteenth century, and then passed utterly away, or, possibly, was absorbed in the congenial development of Methodism.