Distinguished Churchmen. By Charles H. Dant (A. Treherne and Co.
7s. 6d. net.)—" Phases of Church Work" is Mr. Dent's sub-title, and we are content for the sake of the information given on this subject to accept the method of the interview. The more we hear about the work, and the more remote the work is from Church divisions and parties, the better. The accounts given by the Bishops of Uganda (Dr. Tucker) and of New Caledonia (Dr. Ridley) of missionary effort in Africa and the South Pacific, by the Rev. E. M. Rudolph of work among waifs and strays, and by the Rev. H. Wilson of the "East End Slums," are such as no one can read without admiration. Then, again, there is a highly interesting article in which the Rev. J. Cox Edgehill, till quite recently Chaplain-General of the Army, tells us about religious work in the Army. He states, we see, that only one chaplain died in the present war, so that a well-known assurance society, which charged all its assurees £5 5s. (afterwards reduced to £3 3s.) per cent., did a good stroke of business. On the other band, the Rev. Bayfield Roberts, who speaks for the English; Church Union, is not a little aggressive, boasting, among other things, of having "smashed the Privy Council." He is far more hopeful, we see, than Archdeacon Taylor, who speaks for the Church Association. And, indeed, be has every right to be so. If he and his friends move on as far and in the same direction for the next forty-two years as they have moved since 1800, they will attain all, possibly oven more than all, they desire.
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