• SOME BOOKS OF THIt WEEK.
frisider this het:ling we notice such Books of the week as liaue not been reserved' for review in other forms] We have received from the S.P.C.K. a number of Pan-Anglican Papers (2d. each), in which " Problems for Consideration at the Pan-Anglican. Congress, 1908," are considered by various writers. Church Work at Home and Abroad, Capital and Labour, Socialism, and Morality are among the subjects dealt with. Each pamphlet contains several papers, and the pamphlets before us, a part of the whole, number twelve. We cannot undertake the task of criticising their contents. Such a task would lead to the discussion of most of the burning questions of the day in the sphere of religion and morals. We have no hesitation, however, in welcoming the publication as a whole. It is an unquestionable good to have these preliminary debates brought within the reach of all readers. We may say in passing that Mr. Arnold Richards's opinions about Socialism and, Christianity seem to be very "red," and that Mr. Davis in writing about " Marriage " does not go the right way, to diminish the immorality which he deplores when he would enforce the rigours of the Canon Law, without the power of dispensation, be it noted. A rigid system without dispensing power leads to all kinds of abuses. The system of dispensation is bad enough, witness the record of the Roman Church in this matter; but to enforce the system without it is practically Impossible.
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