paring for ordination. They are full of good sense throughout,
and on occasion show qualities which the term "good sense" is not taken to connote. The lecturer is not above going into details; and he is not afraid to speak plainly when plainness of speech is needed ; for example, as to the relation between the young cleric and church workers of various classes and kinds. His tone is that of a High Churchman, but he condemns some of the most objectionable of extremist practices,—the interpolation, for instance, of passages from foreign service books, and such practices as making the sign of the cross with the patten or chalice in administering the Elements. Ho rightly says : " It disturbs some persons greatly." Those who are always for enforcing obedience to the Canon will be interested to know that they ought to use the Bidding Prayer before every sermon. Tho Invocation has no sanction, neither has a collect, though the latter is nearer the right order. The directions for the ablutions seem a little too elaborate. The non-musical priest appears to be becoming more and more relegated to the ranks of the inefficient. The Archdeacon is careful to instruct the young clergyman to be exact in giving out the lesson. "Keep strictly to the titles of the books in the Authorised Bible," and, therefore, say : " Hero beginneth the first chapter of Genesis—not the book Genesis." But in every copy of the Authorised Bible that wo have boon able to consult it stands : " The first book of Moses, called Genesis." The matter is not so plain as it seems. Is the reader when ho comes to the Hebrews to say "The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews," when no educated person in the congregation believes it to have been written by Paul ?
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