3 SEPTEMBER 1892, Page 26

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Book of Common Prayer, with Historical Notes. Edited by the Rev. James Cornford, M.A., (Eyre and Spottiswood).—The editor prefixes an introduction containing a conspectus of the services out of which the Matins and Evensong of 1549 were de- veloped, and another of the changes and additions which have brought our Prayer-book to its present condition. The notes are marginal, and give highly interesting dates and other par- ticulars.