16 JULY 1892, Page 26

Studies in Scottish History. By A. Taylor Innes. (Hodder and

Stoughton.)—These studies are described by the author as " chiefly ecclesiastical ; " a reviewer may add that they are chiefly conceived in the interest of Disestablishment. Their arguments are doubtless worth considering. The curious thing in the Scotch controversy on this subject is that the majority of the disestablishing party ought, by their theory of Church govern- ment, to be on the other side. The leaders of the Disruption were certainly opposed to the Voluntary system ; but their fol- lowers would, it is to be presumed, adopt it, even if they could obtain all that Dr. Chalmers and his friends contended for in 1843. Among the essays are two on "Samuel Rutherford" and "Sir George Mackenzie."