Tnsomor.—The Supper of the Lord. By H. C. G. Moule,
D.D. (R.T.S. 8d. net.)—Professor Monle gives a very able summary of Roman and Lutheran doctrine on the Eucharist, and of the Anglican in its various phases. (He vindicates Z +mingle from the charge of being simply a Commemorationist.) Between transub- stantiation and the ex opera operato doctrine of a Presence induced by consecration and independent of faith (so that an unbelieving priest ministering to unbelieving communicants have Christ among them) there is no practical difference. It is difficult to believe that the latter is the true Anglican doctrine. But this is not the opportunity for such a discussion. We can but mention this very able statement of the controversy.—The Atonement, by the Rev. Edward C. Owen (Seeley and Co., is.), is an essay which obtained the Bishop Jenne Memorial Prize in 1893. The subject is limited by a special reference to the theology of the sixteenth century. Here, again, we must decline to discuss the general question, but we may say that Mr. Owen expresses himself with moderation. —External Religion : its Use and Abuse, by George Tyrrell, S.J. (Sands and Co.), is a temperate state- ment of the Roman Catholic position.—Clement of Alexandria's Biblical Text. By F. Mordaunt Barnard, M.A. (Cambridge University Press. 4s. net.)—This is a volume of the "Texts and Studies" series. The author's object is to exhibit the text of the Gospels and the Acts as Clement of Alexandria had it before him. It is obvious, when we consider Clement's date, that the nearer we get to the facts in this case the more we accomplish towards obtaining the primitive text.
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