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"No Bishop, No Church," or .4nglo-Catholic Claims Examined. By the

Rev. J. R. Cohn. (Church Book Room. 154—This little book, divided into three chapters on the New Testament " Bishop," the Catholic Bishop, and the Anglican Bishop, puts briefly and clearly the Protestant side of the great centres-sway. The author quotes freely from Lightfoot, Hatch, and Gwatkin in his interesting summary of the first throe centuries of Church history, and lie shows a close knowledge of the early Fathers whom he cites, of course, to show that sacerdotalisin mid episcopacy—in one sense of the word— developed after the close of the Apostolic ago.