27 AUGUST 1864, Page 23

The Salt If the Earth. God Sitting as a Refiner.

Two Sermons preached at Ordinations of the Bishop of Oxford. By the Archbishop of Dublin. (John H. and J. Parker.)—In those two discourses the ordinary topics of warning and encouragement to candidates for Holy Orders are put in a forcible and scholarlike manner, but they do not appear to us to contain anything very original either in thought or expression. Quite up to the mark oven of Dr. Trench, they hardly require special notice.