John Knox and the Church of England. By Peter Lorrimer,
D.D. (Henry S. King and Co.)—This is a very important volume. Dr. Lorrimer found in Dr. Williams's library in London a set of papers which have never before been published, and which have a most significant bearing on the share which Knox had in the shaping of the Anglican formu- laries. These papers are four in number, and are "An Epistle to the Congregation at Berwick, 1552," "A Memorial to the Privy Council of Edward VI., 1552," " The Practice of the Lord's Supper used in Berwick by John Knox, 1550," and "A Letter written to John Knox from London, 1566." Dr. Lorrimer gives the date 1566 for the last, but as he sees in its first paragraph an allusion to Queen Mary's escape from Loch Leven in 1568, this must be wrong. Duly to discuss those documents would take us into the heart of questions now fiercely
debated, and would require space that we cannot afford. It will be sufficient to say that every student of English Church history, espe- cially of that important period when our present formularies and ritual were in process of formation, must henceforward count this volume as an authority to be consulted.
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