The Renegade. By James Chalmers. (A. D. limes and Co.)—
This is a story of Paul Jones, the privateer, in which especial stress is laid on a supposed right which he had to a Scotch peer- age, and on the fraudulent dealings by which he was ousted from it, to the permanent embitterment of his life. Whatever merits the story possesses are greatly obscured by the style, which is cumbrous, lengthy, and tedious. This is the sort of thing that wearies out the most patient reader : —" The night wore on. The moon passed the zenith of her pale splendour, and though with lustre yet undiminished, began to incline to the downward steep."
Some Notable Archbishops of Canterbury. By the Rev. Montague Fowler. (S.P.C.K.) —Mr. Fowler begins with Augustine, and follows him with Theodore, to whom the Anglican Church, more than to any other man, owes its present organisation After a long gap we have Anselm. Becket, of course, cannot be omitted. Chioheley and Warham are two other pre-Reformation Primates. Creamer and Parker are the first of the second line. The other lives are Laud, Sancroft, Howley, Sumner, Longley, and Tait. Tait was a great statesman, but Howley, Sumner, and Longley had little claim beyond those of personal merit and piety for the master position which they held in the Church.
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