The Official Year-book of the Church of England, 1899 (S.P.C.K.,
39.), is a careful and impressive statement of the work of the Church, a salutary reminder, in the midst of the sterile excite- ment of controversy, of the solid, good work that is being done by the Church organisation. How these disputes seem to shrink into nothing when we begin to consider what is being done, and what ought to be done, to promote practical righteousness With this may be mentioned, for, after all, the Church is the most effective organisation for this purpose, Friendly Visiting among the Poor, by Mary E. Richmond (Macmillan and Co., 4s.) Miss Richmond has no ecclesiastical purpose to serve, but her words of wisdom and sound, practical advice may be most advan- tageously studied by those who are at work in this way under the inspiration of religious motives.
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