16 FEBRUARY 1907, Page 24

The London Diocese Book, Edited by the Rev. Glendinning Nash

(Spottiswoode and Co., Is. 65. net), describes its purpose sufficiently by its title. Here may be found all details as to the clergy, the benefices, and the organisation generally of the diocese, the regulations which candidates for Orders must observe. The first thing in the volume is the rule that no clergyman is to officiate even for one Sunday without the sanction of the Suffragan Bishop. It is an admirable rule, and it would be interesting to know bow far it is observed. In some dioceses where the Bishop refuses to license a curate on account of ritual irregularities, it is usual, we have been told, for priests to officiate without leave.