27 APRIL 1867, Page 21

Micah the Priestmaker. A Handbook on Ritualism. By T. Binney.

(Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—With the exception of the discovery that Micah was the first Ritualist, we find little novelty in this volume. Mr. Binney has read The Directorium, and The Church and the World and the Church Times, and the other newspapers passim, and has been to St. Alban's. But if every man who has done the same were to write a book on the subject, and repeat the arguments which have been advanced on both sides, our whole literature would be taken up with descriptions of coloured dresses and discussions about the exact period at which the second year of Edward VL's reign began and ended.