A Defence of the Church of England against Disestablishment. By
Bounden, Earl of Selborne. (Macmillan and Co. ls. net.)— This book, sailed forth by some observations made by Mr. Glad- stone in an election address in September 1885, has been accepted as the standard statement of the case for Church Defence, and its appearance in a popular form is welcome. A speciality of the present publication is that the Welsh Disestablishment question is separately treated. It is a• question that cannot be discussed here. But one remark of Lord Selborne's may be repeated "I must be permitted to doubt whether the absolute and un- checked predominance of Calvinism in Wales or anywhere else would be likely to promote the true interests of religion." Logically the distance between Calvinism and Antinomianism is very narrow, and the Welsh, with all their admirable qualities, are by national temperament very likely to ignore it. You will find in a Welsh village ten times more religious feeling than in one of like dimensions in England, but certainly not ten times more practical morality.
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