This small book, Reflections on the Litany, by Charles Core
(Mowbray, is. fid.), published on the very day of Bishop Gore's death, must inevitably bear for us something of the character of a farewell message. And indeed those who realized his profound affection for the Litany and desire to reinstate it in modern liturgical life, or who ever fell under the influence of the solemn fervour which he brought to it, recitation, will feel that there is a great appropriateness in this final commendation to us of that " priceless possession and school of prayer," which he loved so well. All the Bishop's Most characteristic , qualities, theological and devotional—his deep faith, moral earnestness, and wide and rich scholarship, above all his generous sympathy for the needs and shortcomings of men—find expression here. The Litany is divided by hitn into nine sections. The liturgical origin of each is first given ; after which the content is inter- preted—in his own admirable 'phrase—by the "spiritualize(' intelligence." Many of these •Inotes go far beyond the immediate terms of reference, and cast fresh light on such widely different subjects as the essential meaning of the Gospel. the nature of the self, and the reasonableness of belief in evil spirits.
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