3 JULY 1880, Page 21

The Convocation Prayer-book. (Murray.)—Our duty with regard to this volume

will be best discharged by quoting part of the prefatory note addressed to the reader :—" It will be understood that the volume now offered to the English Church and nation possesses no kind of authority. It is simply published for the pur- pose of indicating the amount of change recommended by the Con- vocations of Canterbury and York. Their recommendations are contained in certain schedules appended to the Report presented to her Majesty, in reply to Letters of Business authorising the Convoca- tions of the two Provinces to discuss and report on the Fourth and Final Report of the Ritual Commission. But it is thought that in that shape the recommendations are less likely to meet the public eye than they will be in the form now adopted."