The Things that are Caesar's. By the Rev. Alfred Fawkes.
(John Murray. Is. net.1—This wise and witty pamphlet ou " Church Reform " should be widely read. Mr. Fawkes disbelieves ins the agitation for narrowing the Church, and in the tentative proposals for the disendowment of this or that section of the clergy in the interests of the "Great Slum Fallacy." "The Church is in more danger from the apathy of the laity than from the encroach- ments of the clergy." " What the House of Laymen and the Diocesan Conference stand for is not the assent, but the profound and increasing difference, of the lay Mind." " It is probable that no real revival of religion will take place amongst us till the Church has escaped from the backwash of the two great Ecclesiastical movements of the nineteenth century, and resumed its normal position on the religious curve." Mr. Fawkes looks for the gradual disappearance of the " sectarian temper " which would uproot and ruin the National Church in the attempt to stimulate its spiritual life.
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