6 JANUARY 1933, Page 32

to the Celebration of the Centenary of the Oxford Movement."

The writer reminds us that the Evangelical movement, so far from being spent when the Tractarians took the field, was actually most vigorous, especially in London and the great towns. There was indeed a general revival throughout Europe, of which the Romantic movement and the philan- thropic agitation against slavery and child labour were part. No one party can claim all the credit for whatever good may have come out of this awakening.