The London Diocese Book. Edited by the Rev. Glendinning Nash.
(S.P.C.K. ls. 6d.)—This volume contains the usual statistical information as to benefices, clergy, societies, &a. The clergy number about sixteen hundred; and there are to be reckoned some hundreds who are employed in education, &c., and a hundred or more who have the Bishops' license to officiate. Without this no one, it is announced, can officiate for a single Sunday. The figures relating to benefices are interesting. In the East City there are eight benefices which exceed 41,000 net in value, the highest amounting to 42,759; in the West City three, from 41,405 downwards. For the rest of the diocese the net values are not given, but the gross (a very different thing) is over 41,000 in twenty-six out of a total of more than six hundred. —We may mention at the same time The Clergy List, 1908 (Kelly's Directories, 12s. 6d. net), giving information on all bishoprics, Cathedrals, benefices, and clergy in England, supple- mented by similar statistics for Ireland, Scotland, and the Colonies, very carefully prepared and kept up to date as usual.
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