3 JANUARY 1863, Page 57

CURRENT LITERATURE

Church Questions. By Joseph Parker, D.D. (Snow.)—This is another of the abundant crop of Nonconformist publications which have been called forth by the re-occurrence of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Black Bartholomew. It consists of a collection of essays, some of an historical and some of a critical character, tho latter being directed mainly against certain portions of the Prayer-book of the Established Church. Dr. Parker writes with remarkable moderation, but his argu- ments are not specially noticeable either for novelty or for force. Per- haps the weakest part of the whole book is the closing chapter, which consists of a number of vague observations on Bishop Colenso's work on. the Pentateuch.