The Church and Life of To - day. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.)
—This is a collection of papers by dignitaries of the Anglican Communion on various social subjects in relation to Church teaching and discipline. It is a book which it is quite impossible to review, so wide is the range of its subjects. A few of the items may be mentioned. Dean Pigou writes very much to the point about the " Parson's Freehold." In no other Church is it so easy to thrust the incompetent priest upon a parish and so hard to get rid of him. The Bishop of Bristol is equally frank about bad books. The English novel has deteriorated deplorably in the course of the last four decades. The Bishop of Barking is, we think, a little too pessimistic about " Modern Manners." It is not the experience of the writer of this notice that old men and women are commonly allowed to stand in railway cars. The Dean of Peterborough in writing about "Conformists and Noncon- formists" does not anticipate anything like organic union. To keep our own organisations and work with others for common objects of good seems to be the more excellent way.
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