CHURCH AND PARSON IN ENGLAND. By the Right ReV. H.
Hensley Henson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Durham. (Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd. 5s.)—Six Ordination 'Charges, that is, addresses to candidates for Ordination, and four Sermons make up this volume. The Charges are printed at the request of those who heard them. All are marked by that clarity and consecrated common-sense, reminding one at times of another great English Churchman, Dr. Johnson, which we have learned to associate with the Bishop of Durham's utter- ances. Another element is prominent also ; the range of a national vision, based on the study of history and the instinct; of law-abidingness which never pleaded to be enjoined so forcibly as to-day. The Bishop appeals to the representative names of his predecessors in the Sec of Durham, eosin, Butler, Lightfoot and Westhoff, and his appeal should sound in the hearts of a far wider circle than that to which it was first addressed.
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