11 MARCH 1899, Page 14

THE STORY OF THE OXFORD MOVEMENT.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPEctwroa."] SIR,—Notbing was said in the notice of Mr. Nye's book about the "infant Church in Rome," or about St. Augustine. The statement objected to was that the doctrine of the Church of England was substantially the same as that taught by Gregory the Great. You would not care to have a detailed analysis of Gregory's teaching. A sentence from the article in " Chambers's Cyclopedia" expresses the facts briefly and clearly : "In his writings the details of the whole dogmatical system of the modern Church [of Rome] are very fully developed."—I am, Sir, &c.,

THE WRITER OF THE NOTICE.