The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses at St. Monica's
in Louvain. Edited, with Notes and Additions, by Dom Adam Hamilton, O.S.B. (Sands and Co. 10s. 6d. net.)—" The greater part of [the communities founded abroad after the Pope declared war on the English Crown] have during the nineteenth century returned to England," writes Dom Adam Hamilton. And very much to the credit of England it is. Were the Pope to recover the temporal power, would he, we wonder, permit the settlement of an Order of Protestant Deaconesses within his dominions? One of these Roman communities (recently settled in Devonshire) possesses certain records which are now published. There is a " Life of Mother Margaret Clement," and a chronicle of the community reaching to the year 1624. These are divided into chapters, to each of which the editor prefixes an introduction. There are not a few interesting things in the book ; but we must pass it by with this general description. We must mention, how• ever, the valuable illustrations.
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