27 MAY 1905, Page 22

Our Brief against Rome. By the Rev. C. S. Isaacson.

(R.T.S. 2s. 6d.)—This summary of the Roman controversy is well put together. The Papal claims, temporal and spiritual ; the exalta- tion of tradition ; the continual development of novelties in- belief and practice; the practical polytheism which—for the ignorant, at any rate—has grown out of the cult of the Virgin and the saints ; the record of past persecutions,—these and other matters are set forth with a telling brevity and force. It would not serve any good purpose to give extracts. The book should be studied as a whole ; it is much wanted. Not the least signifi- cant departure of the High Churchmen to-day from the model which they profess to follow, the Anglicanism of the seven- teenth century, is their attitude towards Rome.