A CATHOLIC ATLAS.
A Catholic Atlas. By Bishop Grafton, S.T.P. (Longmatis and (Jo. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Grafton has put his statement of doctrine into a very unattractive form, a sort of table of categories, with divisions and subdivisions, cold, formal, and unedifying, we should think, to the last degree. He writes a preface in indifferent English. "Dear Reader," he begins, "thou wilt find somewhat in this book that will disagree with thee,"—hardly a literary use of " disagree " we should say. A more serious fault is the rashness of his apologetic : "In the presence of the new knowledge that all matter is but the expression of electricity and any so-called element is changeable into another the objections to certain miracles in the New Testament practically cease." So he thinks to take the wind out of the sails of the man of science. As to the doctrine set forth, it might amaze one, were not one's faculty of amazement exhausted, in a Bishop of the "Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States." We are even prepared to find the name of Hooker in the dedication. To Hooker, of course, much of the book would have seemed simply Roman. This, however, does not trouble theologians of Dr. Grafton's school.
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