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Methodism and the Church of England. A Comparison by a

Layman. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—The " Layman " who, we gather from what he says, has himself left the Wes- leyan body to rejoin the Anglican Church, has set forth in these pages the reasons which seem to justify, or, it might be said, to command this step. He explains, always in temperate

and well-considered language, the causes which produced the movement of Methodism within the Church, and those which afterwards led to the separation. He argues for the Apostolic authority of the English Church its resemblance to primitive models, &a. Altogether, this is likely to be a useful little book.