SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.]
Cl IN& Work and Church Reform. By John Percival, D.D., Bishop of Hereford. (Rivingtons. ls.)—Bishop Percival takes the occasion of his second visitation to give some good advice to his clergy. He finds that little more than half of them give religious instruction regularly in the schools of which they are managers. (There are 296 Church schools in the diocese, and such instruction is given in 155.) It is not always practicable for the incumbent to teach—some have not the gift—but his regular presence is an unquestionable duty. The Bishop laments that there are so few guilds or associations. On the subject of morals he is moderately hopeful. In no Union has the ratio of illegitimate births increased ; in two it has diminished by nearly a half ; in the diocese generally it has fallen from 11 to 7.6. (The periods compared are 1833-58 and 1893-93.) Church Councils and Biblical criticism are among the other subjects of which the Bishop treats.
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