SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Tinder this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not teen reserved for review in other forma.] Aspects of Anglicanism. By Mgr. Keyes, D.D. (Longmans and Co. 65. 6d. net.)—Canon Moyes's polemic will not affect all Anglicans with equal force. Those who think that the Reformation was a great blessing, who are not ashamed to be called Protestants, who believe in the Orders of their Church, and are not disturbed by the Pope's condemnation of them,—on such his most pointed missiles fall harmless. But he has some awkward dilemmas for those who are called "Advanced High Churchmen," for clerics who tell their congregations, "You are going to have everything Roman except the Pope." More than this it is scarcely necessary to say, except it be to remark that Canon Moyes's readers—his book is reprinted from the Tablet—probably knowing nothing about the Anglican Church, might very easily misunderstand his twenty-ninth chapter, and take him to assert that the only Anglican missionary effort in the East was the very insignificant mission to the Nestorian Christians. This is surely a harmless matter,—Canon Keyes allows so much. It might even indirectly promote their return to orthodoxy. But we must allow for our author's surprise; "one hardly knows where to look in the history of the Church for anything remotely resembling it." It is certainly very unlike the methods which the Roman Church employed, to the missionary efforts of St. Dominic, for instance, among the Albigenses, or the vigorous assertion of orthodoxy on St. Bartholomew's Day which Gregory XIII. hailed with such delight. These could hardly be described as "pouring in oil and wine," to use Canon Moyes's own illustration.
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