The Edinburgh Review.
The most timely and the most important article in the April Quarterly' s the Bishop of Durham's consideration of " The Issues of Prayer Book Revision." He recognizes the need of some adaptation to contemporary needs ; he sees that phraseology has changed and that the position of the stress, as it were, in the Church's doctrines is now different. But he insists that the Church of England is, and must remain, a unity ; it stands for principles that no other Church fulfils. He demands, therefore, that the beliefs of the Anglican Church should be defined as clearly and kept as pure as is possible. He wishes that there should be no vagueness in radical principles ; and, in consequence, he objects to the proposed revision in so far as it might legalize the practices of Anglo-Catholics. To do this, he holds, would be licensing a division of the Church against itself. M. J. Coudurier de Chassaigne, in another interesting article, discusses the differ- ence in habit and character between the i'rench and the Eng- lish. He has a natural bias in favour of his country in matters
of international policy ; but even those who disagree with him would do well to study his arguments. It is not necessary for divergences to be rancorous.
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