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The Ejected of 1062 in Cumberland and Westmor- land. By B. Nightingale, M.A. 2 vols- (Manchester University Press.) SOME works have to be for their writers their own reward, and this, we conceive, is one of them. None but an enthusiast would have undertaken and achieved a piece of historical research such as Mr. Nightingale has here set himself to per- form. In this exhaustive and conscientious study of the annals of Nonconformity during the Restoration period he has been content to play the laborious, but useful part of " hewer of wood " for the historical builder who may come after him. He has also put a liberal construction on the bounds of his chosen period, as his second- ary title takes it to embrace, besides the ejected of" 1662, " their Predecessors and Successors " ; though doubtless we must mentally interject the word " immediate."

The troubled period of 1640-60 has often

been left virtually a blank in parochial and

county histories, the intruded ministers being

passed over as a temporary and provisional

arrangement not worthy of permanent record.

The two northern counties were intensely Koyalist,

and little disposed, therefore, to take notice of the

" usurpers." It is to remedy this defect that

Mr. Nightingale has undertaken his task, and it

must be admitted that he has discharged it

fairly and impartially, without stirring the hidden

ashes of the old quarrel more than is inevitable.

&s the author himself explains, his object is


 * ' to give, as far as may be, a full and correct list

I of seventeenth -century Incumbents in each case,

i so that the reader may. for himself, see what men

t were displaced during the Commonwealth regime,

and what by the Restoration and the Uniformity


 * Act. In this way Walker's list of ' Suffering

Clergy ' and Calamy's list of ' Ejected Ministers '

re frequently tested. In every case the parish

registers have been examined for the purpose " ;

[ and the amount of labour which that alone entailed

is not easily estimated.

We cannot aver that the superabundance of

1 material here set out at length makes interesting


 * reading. It is a record for the most part of

i trivial disturbances which ruffled for a time the

course of lives long since forgotten ; and yet these

minute chronicles of barely parochial importance

I may be the raw material which will supply pieces

I justificative.*! for ecclesiastical writers who make

this period their study. We note " enthused with

the Laudian spirit " (i. 39) as a phrase rather

beneath the dignity of an historical writer.

The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. XIII.

Genealogical Tables and T.ists and General Index.

(Cambridge University Press.) THIS volume of subsidiary aids to the previous twelve in the ' History ' is worthy of its predeces- sors, and planned on a lavish scale which should increase the obligations of serious readers to the editors of the great scheme proposed by the late Lord Acton. There may be differences of opinion regarding the style and arrangement of some of the volumes, but the corpus of expert information they contain is such as no student of history can afford to neglect.

The present volume, beginning with four pages due after p. 342 of Vol. VI., which will be inserted in future editions, goes on with no fewer than 151 Genealogical Tables and Lists, which cover a. wider range of subject than anything of the kind previously attempted in a final volume. Besides the usual tables of royal and other dignitaries, we find such details as tables of the Howard, Douglas, and Campbell families which indicate- their political alliances ; lists of Congresses and Conferences, Leagues and Alliances, Universities,. Popes, Archbishops of Canterbury and York r Bishops and Archbishops of Paris, and Generals of the Order of Jesus, which, it is duly noted,, was dissolved by Clement XIV. in 1773 and restored by Pius VII. in 1814.

What, by the way, is a " totane" ? It is used as descriptive of an Irish chief in one of the genealogies, and we fail to trace the word in dictionaries within our reach.

The Index, which is very full in its details,, answers satisfactorily to the various demands we - < have made on it for accurate references.

Illustrations of the Liturgy : beiny Thirteen- Drawings of the Celebration of the Holy Com- munion in a Parish Church. By Clement O.. Skilbeck. Alcuin Club Collections, XIX. (Mow- bray & Co.)

DR. PERCY DEARMER contributes to this book an- Introduction ' On the Present Opportunity ' the opportunity, that is, afforded by the "object- lesson " given us in the last Coronation, of realizing: the capacities, in the way both of devotion and beauty, of the English Use when strictly adhered to. For those who have not yet turned their attention to the matter this book contains much that may well prove suggestive and instructive, more particularly in regard to a comparison between the English and Scotch liturgies. The- drawings, for their purpose, are excellent ; andi a word of praise must be given also to the excel- lence of the printing. We could have wished away a slight acerbity of tone and an excessive- solemnity about details which are not de fide T such as ' riddels." besides a line or two of unneces- sary discourtesy towards the Roman Communion.

WE have received a dozen of those little green volumes, published at 6d. each, which Messrs. Jack call " The People's Books." On the whole,, we have never come across a more wonderful sixpennyworth than may be acquired in the best of them. They are not only well " up-to-date," and the work of competent authors, but are clearly printed on sufficiently good paper and quite prettily bound, while the subjects dealt with are so various that the series must surely present something of interest to evory one who reads at all.

The volume on Dante is by Mr. Ferrers Howell, whose ' Franciscan Days ' some years ago taught us what to expect from his pen. About two- thirds of the book deals with the life of ' Dante his characteristics as a poet and his political ideal ; the remaining third is devotee! to the ' Divina Commedia.' The author has used to excellent advantage the thirty odd pages to which he was restricted, choosing rather to trace the main outline and to expounl the more profound significance of the poem than to concern himself much with its accidental or so to call them external features. Mr. Coxon's. Roman Catholicism is an explanation which must