22 MARCH 1902, Page 24

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as hare not been reserved for twiny in other forms.]

— We must be content, anyhow for the present, to notify the appearance of this Report and to indicate the points of agreement, — (1) That the words " whosoever sine " were addressed to the whole Church ; (2) that the discipline of private confession and absolution is not primitive ; (3) that the Church of England permits confession and absolution under certain circumstances,