1 SEPTEMBER 1888, Page 24

Notes on the Church Catechism. By the Rev. A. Towsey,

MA (Belle Brothers.)—There is some merit in the arrangement of the notes as aids to memory and leading to clearness of thought..

although there is nothing strikingly original about any of the notes themselves. The first part of the book is the fullest and best. The Sacraments receive only eight pages out of fifty-seven. The notes here are certainly not abreast of modern Church teach- ing on this subject. It is curious that, if the Church of Ragland only recognises two sacraments, the Homily on Perjury, which is appointed to be read in churches, in speaking of holy matrimony, calls it " the sacrament which knitteth man and wife in perpetual love."