The Church of England : an Appeal to Facts and
Principles. By the Rev. W. C. E. Newbolt and the Rev. Darwell Stone. (Long- mans and Co. 2s. net.)—There are many things in this pamphlet on which we would willingly comment, whether in the way of assent or of dissent, did the occasion serve; but we must be content with one remark. The authors quote with approval the reply of the Eastern Church to the Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII. That reply describes " the one saving faith " as that which "was bequeathed and formulated of old by the divine Fathers during the first nine centuries." Is this the irreducible minimum which the Anglican Church must accept if reunion is to be achieved? It has been said of Gregory the Great that his teaching practically contains all Roman teaching, and the three following centuries were not wanting in developments in the same direction.
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