DAILY LECTIONS.
Daily Lections : Some Saints of the Kalendar. By the Rev. J. F. W. Bullock. 3 vols. (Rivingtons. £1 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Bullock speaks of "the Kalendar" : what does he mean by it? , He has actually constructed a kalendar of his own. "The Kalendar of the Prayer-book has been taken as a basis, other festivals being added" (the italics are ours). (These volumes, it should be said, are not for private reading only, but for use in church at evensong.) The " other festivals added " are more than four times as numerous as those contained in the Prayer- book ; and some of them certainly, as St. Thomas of Canterbury, were deliberately omitted when the Prayer-book Kalendar was put together. Who is Mr. Bullock that he sets aside the order of his own Church ? In no other Church in Christendom would such a piece of presumption be tolerated. What would happen to a Roman priest in this country who should take the Anglo-Roman Kalendar as his "basis," and transform it out of all knowledge at his own will ? Some of the feasts are not found either in the Sarum or the Anglo-Roman Kalendar. They have their place !simply at Mr. Bullock's pleasure. Quousque tandem?
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