A commentary on Ecclesiastes

by Thomas Pelham Dale

“We are again pleased to see an old friend on the editorial table, in a third edition of Mr. Scudamore’s well-known Manual of Prayers. The special proper collects for each day of the week, as well as those for the several seasons of the Christian year, have been most judiciously selected. The compiler moreover, while recognising the full benefits to be derived from the Book of Common Prayer, has not feared to draw largely from the equally invaluable writings of ancient Catholicity. The preface is a systematic arrangement of instructions in prayer and meditation.”—Church Review.

THE HOME LIFE OF JESUS OF NAZARETH AND OTHER SERMONS. By the Rev. Augustus Gurney, M.A., Vicar of Wribbenhall, Kidderminster. Crown 8vo. 5s.

A CHURCH HISTORY OF THE FIRST SEVEN CENTURIES, to the Close of the Sixth General Council. By Milo Mahan, D.D., sometime S. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the General Theological Seminary, New York. 8vo. 15s.

OUR MOTHER CHURCH: being Simple Talk on High Topics. By Anne Mercier. Crown 8vo. 7s. 6d.

“We have rarely come across a book dealing with an old subject in a healthier and, as far as may be, more original manner, while yet thoroughly practical, than ‘Our Mother Church,’ by Mrs. Jerome Mercier. It is intended for and admirably adapted to the use of girls. Thoroughly reverent in its tone, and bearing in every page marks of learned research, it is yet easy of comprehension, and explains ecclesiastical terms with the accuracy of a lexicon without the accompanying dulness. It is to be hoped that the book will attain to the large circulation it justly merits.”—John Bull.

“We have never seen a book for girls of its class which commends itself to us more particularly than ‘Our Mother Church’ by Mrs. Jerome Mercier. The author, who is the wife of an earnest parish priest of the Anglican school, near London, calls her work ‘simple talk on great subjects,’ and calls it by a name that describes it almost as completely as we could do in a longer notice than we can spare the volume. Here are the headings of the chapters:—‘The Primitive Church,’ ‘Primitive Places and Modes of Worship,’ ‘The Early English Church,’ ‘The Monastic Orders,’ ‘The Friars,’ ‘A Review of Church History,’ ‘The Prayer Book,’ (four chapters), ‘Symbolism,’ ‘Church Architecture,’ ‘Windows and Bells,’ ‘Church Music,’ ‘Church Work.’ No one can fail to comprehend the beautifully simple, devout, and appropriate language in which Mrs. Mercier embodies what she has to say; and for the facts with which she deals she has taken good care to have their accuracy assured.”—Standard.

“The plan of this pleasant-looking book is excellent. It is a kind of Mrs. Markham on the Church of England, written especially for girls, and we shall not be surprised to find it become a favourite in schools.... It is really a conversational hand-book to the English Church’s history, doctrine, and ritual, complied by a very diligent reader from some of the best modern Anglican sources.”—English Churchman.

THE DIVINITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST; being the Bampton Lectures for 1866. By Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s.

SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. By Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Fifth Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 5s.

SOME ELEMENTS OF RELIGION. Lent Lectures. By Henry Parry Liddon, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.