Lee Doctrines Midrersfee chez Donne. Par MaryPaton Ramsay. (Oxford University
Press. 7s. Od. net.)—This learned and able essay, written as a thesis for the Doctor's degree in the University of Paris, deserves the attention of those who are interested in Donne as a theologian and philosopher as well as a poet. Miss Ramsay's main contention is that Donne, like other Dien of the early seven- teenth century, was essentially mediaeval in his outlook, and she illustrates this in great detail. Her elaborate appendices on the authors cited in his prose treatises—never yet reprinted—and in his voluminous and much-admired sermons testify to Donne's wide reading in the Fathers and in the theologians of both sides in his own day. Donne is rightly remembered use a poet first of all, but his influence in the development of Anglican theology has perhaps been underestimated.
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