12 MARCH 1887, Page 26

The Bishops in the Tower. By Herbert Mortimer Luckook, D.D.

(Rivingtons.)—The imprisonment, trial, and acquittal of the seven Bishops form the subject of one of the eight chapters or lectures which this volume contains. It is really a brief account of the Church of the Restoration, more especially in its relations to the Nonconformists and the Crown, half of the chapters dealing with the efforts of James II. to restore the Papacy, and with the non-luring secession. These subjects are lucidly and fairly treated, from the High Church point of view. The encouragement of the study of Church history is Dr. Luckock's object; and it will be cheerfully allowed that his lectures are calculated to promote it.