A Layman's Life in the Days of the Tractarian Movement.
(Parker and Co. 4s. net.)—Mr. John E. Acland has written a memoir of his father, Arthur Acland, who late in life, on succession to a relative's property, assumed the name of Troyte. His was a life of inward devotion and outward activity in all good works that came to his hand to do. His thoughts and the manner of his life were profoundly influenced by the Oxford Movement. He was born in 1811, and came up to Oxford in the year after J. H. Newman was appointed to the vicarage of St. Mary. To the day of his death these associations had a strong hold upon him; but he never lost his independence ; there were many things in the Movement that disturbed him. In 1839 he wrote : "I am quite sure the Oxford Party must be avoided." He recognised the strong attraction that it exercised, and he saw it from a point of view not commonly occupied at the time,—that it did not tend to real unity. The chief interest of the volume, however, lies in its pictures, drawn with tact and discretion, of a singularly noble life.
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