Church and State in England and Wales. By Michael J.
P. McCarthy. (Hodges, Figgie, and Co. 7s. 6d.)—We shall pass over the greater part of Mr. McCarthy's book without notice. There is much with which we agree in what he says of the Oxford Move- ment, as of other matters. Our criticism shall be confined to his chapter on Oxford. He seeks to convince his readers that academical officers, teachers, &c., are greatly overpaid, and it is quite possible that some of those readers may carry away the belief that the statement is true. There is, for instance, a table, in the third column of which we see "Heads and Fellows : Cash, 4151,059." The sum may look imposing, though there are not a few private incomes which exceed the whole ; but when we divide it by four hundred, the quotient is nothing very scandalous-4377. And these men are the successes in their own line. A first-class clerk in a Government office receives more ; as for the commercial world, the whole sum would be required for less than a quarter of the number of secretaries, managers, Sec. Mr. McCarthy is very indignant at the amount of money spent on "religion." He would abolish the musical services of New, Magdalen, &c., and have one chapel for the whole University. Such ideas would be appro- priately "told in Gath " and "published in Askelon."
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