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But Dr. Mackinnon's guidance is by no means always trustworthy. The bibliographical details at the end of the chapters are a useful feature.

The Russian Peasantry : their Agrarian Condition, Social Life, and Religion. By Stepniak. (Rout- ledge & Sons.)

BY arrangement with Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Messrs. Routledge have issued a cheap and popular edition of Stepniak's important work. Its appearance cannot be otherwise than opportune at a time when all eyes are fixed upon the fortunes of the great people it depicts. It has been found im- possible to bring the information quite up to date. Russian folk-lore has a strongly marked character of its own, and of this the volume incidentally treats. A large number of readers will be glad of the opportunity of studying the chapters on "The Agrarian Question,' ' The Moujiks and the Russian Democracy, 5 and * Paternal Government.'

WE have received Wenhaston and Bulcamp, Suffolk, containing curious parish records, com- piled by the late Rev. J. B. Clare (Elliot Stock). It contains several noteworthy facts, but the arrangement of the materials, cannot be com- mended, and here and there we come upon mis- takes. For example, we are told that the De before the names of some early vicars indi- cates that they were of noble birth. This is not necessarily true. In fact, in a large majo- rity of instances it could be proved not to have been the case. The De was used very commonly to signify that the priest's birthplace or home in boyhood was the village whose name he had appropriated.

Excommunication died out slowly in the Church of England. When the last case occurred would be an interesting subject for inquiry. An account is given here of one that took place in 1732. There is also information afforded of the various Acts of Parliament relating to burial in woollen. One fact is stated of which we were unaware. As there was a heavy penalty inflicted on those who did not obey the law, and the fine went to the informer, the dying person or his friends sometimes directed one of the servants to lay the information, thus "securing the fine as a kind of legacy." Some notes and extracts relating to the condition of the poor in former times are worth attention. Several examples are given of the practice indulged in by parish authorities of paying men to marry widows with large families, for the sake of relieving their own rates. An instance 'occurs as early as 1761, and there are others of later date. How long this form of bribery and cheating continued in Suffolk we do not know, but in many parts of the country nineteenth-century examples could no doubt be produced. The custom probably did not entirely disappear until the passing of the poor-law of 1834. The volume has a glossary of upwards of fifty pages, containing a few matters worthy of notice.

REV. H. A. WALKER. On the 8th inst., at the residence of his brother, Major-General A. L. Walker, The Chase Cottage, EnfieJd, the death occurred of the Rev. Henry Aston Walker, vicar of Chattisham, Ipswich, at the age of seventy-one. The Church Times of 11 May contained the follow- ing obituary :

" We have to record the death of an aged priest, the Rev. H. A. Walker, whose name was better known amongst Churchmen a quarter of a century ago than it is to-day. He was one of the colleagues

I of the late Fr. Mackonochie at St. Alban's, Holborn, and became vicar of St. James's, Hatcham, after Mr. Tooth's resignation of that living. But it is as- one of the earliest pioneers of Plainsong in the services of the Church that he will, perhaps, be-

j best remembered. His compilation of supplemental hymns to 'The Hymnal Noted,' and, perhaps, his- version of 'Missa de Angelis,' are his best-known, works. R.I.P."

He was of Oriel Coll., Oxon, B.A. 1856, M.A. 1859 ; and became vicar of Chattisham, Ipswich,, in 1891. Contributions from him, signed H. A. W. v have appeared from 4 th S. vii. to 10 th S. iv.

W. C. B.

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