THEOLOGY. —Codex Purpureus Petropolitanus. By H. S. Cronin, M.A. (Cambridge
University Press. 5s. net.)— The editor gives an interesting account of the various fragments of the MS.,—that marked in the Catalogue of Codices as "N." Of this fourty-five leaves were already known, and the discovery added one hundred and eighty-two to the number. It was a manuscript de luxe, probably written in Constantinople in the sixth century. The editor gives a com- plete account of the characteristics of the text, in which, however, there is nothing of any very great importance. The volume Le- one of the series of "Texts and Studies," appearing under the general editorship of Canon J. Armitage Robinson. —The Church of England's Position. By J. M. Lely, M.A. (Horace Cox. 6e.) —Mr. Lely prints here "the principal statutes, cases, and formularies in which the law for the regulation of the Church of England is contained." He has, in fact, furnished a storehouse of legal and historical information in which a student of the subject may find materials. It is needless to say that it is likely to be a very useful book. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find all these docu- ments brought so conveniently together.—What Shall We Think of Christianity ? By William Newton Clarke, D.D. (T. and T. Clark. 2e. 6d.)—This volume contains three lec- tures, dealing respectively with " The Christian People," "The Christian Doctrine," and " The Christian Power." It is a brief but full apology for Christianity. We would specially commend to our readers the statement in the third lecture of what it means to say Christianity is true (pp. 127.35).— Books of the devotional kind are Absolute Surrender, by Andrew Murray (Marshall Brothers) ; and from the same publishers Some One is Coming and Honey Gathered and Stored, by the late Rev. J. McNeill, the latter being a kind of concordance of subjects, —In the Hour of Silence, by Alexander Smellie, M.A. (Andrew Melrose, 5s.), is "a book of daily meditations for a year."
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