'DIE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. ap e d by Sir
James Marehant. (Longinans. 9s.)-Ten ading Churchmen contribute essays to Sir James Marchant's vmposium on the future of the Church. They write agreeably 1 various topics, but most of them seem unduly cautious or, may be, are unable to express their ideas in a few pages. !Hong the more helpful contributors is the Bishop of Liver- 11. whose views on " The Church and Education " are finite and practical. He would have the Church retain nlv the strongest of its elementary schools " to serve as models the type of school which it has assisted to evolve," and nd over the rest to the State. Then, says Dr. David, the Church would be free to devote itself to far more central Aleuts, concerning the teaching given and the training and ;piration of the teachers who give it." He insists, very "fitly, that " religious instruction," even in a Church school, ill not suffice for the whole religious training of a child. anon Cunningham's paper on " The Clergy and their Train-
• gives some useful facts about the dearth of candidates for dination and pleads for recognition of the fact that, like a Nonconformist bodies, the Church will have to train ndidates at its own expense and not at theirs. But the ok as a whole is disappointing.
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