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Lyra Eueltaristica. Edited by Rev. Orby Shipley, M.A. (Long- mans.)—This

very antique-looking volume consists of a collection of hymns and verses, both ancient and modern, on the subject of the Holy Communion. In a long and rather confused preface, Mr. Shipley tells us that he had two distinct motives in compiling this work ; but, on ex- amination, this double object resolves itself, as far as we can make out, into one, the existence of which he might safely have left us to assume, viz, a desire to produce a collection of verses on the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Mr. Shipley's volume is intended, we presume, exclusively for High-Church readers. We may add that many of the verses appear to us, from a literary point of view, tb

possess a respectable degree of merit.