“In emphasizing a too much neglected phase of institutional development, Professor Tout has added greatly to our true appreciation of English mediæval history. No student of English mediæval institutions can afford to neglect these two invaluable volumes.”
+ Review 3:507 N 24 ’20 520w
“The labour must have been exhausting, but the dry bones live again, in so far that the reader sees precisely how England was governed in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.”
+ Spec 125:277 Ag 28 ’20 1300w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p531 Ag 19 ’20 1450w
TOWARDS reunion; ed. by Alexander James Carlyle. *$2.75 Macmillan 280
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“‘Towards reunion,’ a book of fourteen chapters—half by writers in the church of England and half from the Free churches—is well named. Both words are strikingly suggestive of the purpose of the book. In different ways, that sometimes do not altogether agree, they give expression to a common vision of a ‘great spiritual and visible unity.’ That the emphasis should be put upon the spiritual, as the means to the visible, unity, is expressed in the preface and suggested by putting as the last and climactic chapter ‘The holy spirit in the churches.’ Besides the names of the writers appear, as witnessing to the common aim of the book, the names of over fifty other leaders in the churches, all of whom were also members of the inter-church conferences out of which the book really came.”—Bib World
“It is open, no doubt, to the criticism that the groups concerned had never any serious divergences; but, though this lessens its value as a practical step to reunion, it does not detract from its worth as a general contribution to the problem.”
+ − Ath p686 Ag 1 ’19 1450w + − Bib World 54:203 Mr ’20 400w Sat R 128:368 O 18 ’19 1400w