SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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St. Margaret's, Westminster. By the Rev. H. F. Westlake. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—It was on Palm Sunday, April 17th, 1614, that the House of Commons in its official and corporate capacity first attended the venerable church of St. Margaret's to receive the Holy Communion. The con- nexion which has endured for three centuries originated in a protest by the growing body of Puritan opinion against the use of wafer-bread in the Abbey ritual. In a debate on April 13th complaint was made that "in the Abbey they administer not with common bread," and it was resolved that the House should attend the parish church. Mr. Westlake's book is a worthy contribution to our ecclesiology.
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