On Convocation. By W. Stubbs. (A. R. Mowbray. la. net.)—
Archdeacon Hutton has published for the first time an authoritative statement on the joint action of the Convocations of Canterbury and York, which was prepared and privately printed by the late Dr. Stubbs, at the request of Archbishop Benson, thirty years ago. Dr. Stubbs, with his unrivalled knowledge of our Constitutional history, reviewed the subject briefly and clearly from the sixth century onwards, and concluded that " there are no cases of complete joint session of English Convocations," and that the two Arch- bishops cannot, though the Crown might., summon the two Convocations to sit is a National Synod. Dr. Stubbs's speech on the reform of Convocation, delivered in the Upper House of Canterbury in 1898, is also reprinted in this pamphlet. Convocation could only bo reformed by Act of Parliament, but, he added, " I am inclined to let well alone and make the beat of it "—a view which most Churchmen probably share.
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