The Scottish Church and University Almanac, 1900. (Macniven and Wallace,
Edinburgh. le. ) —This yearly publication gives much ecclesiastical and academical information in a small compass and in an accessible form. There is nothing like it in England (where, of course, these matters are on a much larger scale), for the volume contains statistics of all the religious bodies, as well as of the Universities. For this we should want at least a dozen volumes. As the subject of clerical incomes here crops up pretty frequently we have calculated the average in the first Presbytery of the six- teen Synods, making two hundred and eighty-two livings in all. These work out an average of £300 exactly. This includes income and house. But as the houses are kept up by the heritors, whereas English parsonages are repaired by a most oppressive system of dilapidations, this makes no real difference. An English parsonage costs at least what its rent would be.
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