The Parson's Burden. By the Author of "The Perplexed Parson."
(Chapman and Hall. 2s. 6d. net.)—There is some sense in this volume, and some, let us say, not sense. Naturally, the "Parson" begins with girding at Bishops. He speaks with praise of the Bishop who gave up living at a "great silly castle," and went to a small house in the city. But this Bishop was not the first to do this. At Bristol, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Rochester the same thing has been done. Would the "Parson" have Lambeth and Bishopstborpe given up? These things have taken a deep root in English life. The remarks on Church music, too, are questionable. "If you want congregational singing," you must wait, it would seem, for a generation or two. Meanwhile we must be content with choirs attempting fine music, and for the most part failing, as from the necessity of the case they must.
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