23 DECEMBER 1911, Page 25

Sufficiency and Defects of the English COMMW1r1071, Office. By A.

G. Walpole Sayer, B.D. (Cambridge 'University Press. 3s.)— So far as this book, which is evidently a work of much learning and industry, is an eirenicon, we welcome it. If the office is sufficient eaclit quaestio. Any additions are to be deprecated. They would certainly do much more harm than good. As for the priests who interpolate phrases from other liturgies, no words can be too strong for their disloyalty.