Penny History of the Church of England. By Augustus Jessopp,
D.D. (S.P.C.K. ld.)—We hope that this little book will be as widely circulated as the ability of its author and the enterprise of the publishing Society deserve that it should be. It is an excel- lent summary of the history of the Church, special attention being given, of course, to the change and settlement of the sixteenth century. We would quote in reference to a matter lately discussed in the Spectator Dr. Jessopp's emphatic statement: "Henry VIII. never changed his religious opinions. From first to last he was a determined and bigoted Upholder of the doctrines reckoned orthodox by the Church of Rome." And yet we are told by the writer of a widely circulated text-book that the Church of England at the Elizabethan settlement returned to the "Henrician doctrinal standard."
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