19 OCTOBER 1867, Page 21

Notes on the Catechism, for the Use of Public Schools.

By the Rev. Alfred Barry, D.D. (Bell and Daldy.)—We infer from the preface and from the occasional references to Cheltenham College sermons that Dr. Barry, as Principal of Cheltenham, has made use of this book in preparing the boys of his school for confirmation. If so, his efforts have

no doubt been crowned with success. The teaching of his book is eminently adapted for English public schoolboys, and is at once manly and religious. At the same time, the Notes are rather too mach like a skeleton, and the book seems intended more for teachers than readers. It refers to texts, instead of embodying and explaining them.