The Story of My Conversion. By the late Abbe Corneloup.
Translated from the French by H. E. W. and M. M. (R.T.S. ls. 6d.)—"I am not entering into polemics, but simply telling how I was led to leave Rome and embrace Protestantism." So writes the author ; and he fulfils his promise. There is nothing bitter in his tone, though ho takes a view of Roman Catholicism that seems to us extreme. Of course he was not bound to the logical conclusions of Anglicanism, which, by acknowledging Roman Orders, acknowledges the catholicity of the Church which confers them. To the Abbe Corneloup it seemed "an an altogether human system absolutely and fundamentally opposed to evan- gelical Christianity." This will seem to many of our readers extreme; yet they will find the book worth reading. The author uses some forcible arguments, especially in the chapter entitled " The Scriptures and Worship." But the chief interest of the book is in the personal narrative ; this it is impossible to read without a conviction of the earnestness and sincerity with which it is inspired.
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