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The Story of the Old Catholic and Kindred Movements, by

A. M. E. Scarth (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.), is largely made up of quotations, but is none the less valuable on that account, for it makes a handy little dictionary of the movements of which it treats. The opinions expressed by the author—in, by-the-way, too jerky and occasionally too gushing a style—will of necessity not meet with the approval of all readers, and too sanguine a view may possibly enough be taken of the prospects of the reunifica- tion of Christendom. But neither opinions nor hopes will inter- fere with the value of this volume, both as a history and as a work of reference.