Here's a Church—let's go, in. By the Very Rev. W.
J. Conybeare. (British Publishing Co, 3S. 6d.)
THE title of this rather charming little book (taken from- Great Expectation:0' is deserved, for the author does make his glimpses of Church of England-life and work attractive. Reared in a country vicarage near _Cambridge,. son of a very individual, mentally and physically energetic, gifted and rather eccentric vicar, he gives an agreenbIe account of a parsonage childhood in the eighteen-seventies, boyhood at Eton, Cambridge in the 'eighties and 'nineties, then Church work in Australia, South London, Lambeth (he was for a time chaplain to Archbishop Frederick Temple) and finally Southwell, where he was Provost of the Minister. The book is too short • it might well have been filled out with more personal memories of ;he figures who appear briefly in its pages ; but the intentional emphasis is rather on the work of the Church than on individuals ; least of all is attention given to self-portraiture, and the likeable figure of Provost Conybeare himself remains perhaps too much in the background. His object is to show the Church he loves as at once a living and an historic body and a stimulating field for work and in this he admirably succeeds.
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