The April number of the Church Quarterly Review is an
ex- ceptionally good one, especially from the Anglican point of view. There are no fewer than three articles devoted to Bishops- " Bishop Westhott on the Hebrews," "Bishop Lightfoot's St. Clement of Rome," and "Bishop Kingdon on the Incarnation ; " while "Recent Works on the Gospels," " The Intermediate State," and "The Loss of the Succession in Denmark" are also obviously
intended mainly for the clerical section of the Church Quarterlits constituency. "The Marian Persecution" is an acrid but able piece
of anti-Roman historical special pleading. Admirers of the work
of the Salvation Army will not like, but nevertheless they should road, "Darkest England," the writer of which expects "no
permanent elevation of tho masses" from the philanthropic labours of the "General." The "general reader" will find in this number of the Chwrch Quarterly two articles that will specially interest him,—an admittedly belated but yet interesting paper on Sir Walter Scott's Journal, and a criticism of the poetry of Mr. Lewis Morris. The note of this criticism is sobriety. The author thinks that Mr. Morris was at first overpraised, and has since been unduly depreciated. "lie has no special message to tell to men, no distinctive revelation, whether of truth or of beauty ; but he takes the old familiar truths, and ho sets them before us once again in a new setting of happy words and phrases." Further, his "special gift seems to lie in his mastery of a musical blank verse, which confers distinction on his expression of truths which, though' often beautiful and fine, are seldom profound."
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