SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been rsserred for review in other forms.]
from the English Church as it ultimately emerged from the Reformation struggle. He now gives an interesting volume which may be taken to supplement the "Story of the Englitsb Separatists." Archbishop Sandys and others were dissatisfied. with what they saw in the Reformed Anglican Communion, and not without good reason, at least from their point of view. We now told on high authority that the Reformation changed nothing,—a remarkable justification of the complaint of the time that it had not changed enough. Mr. Mackennal's historical survey is interesting ; so are his speculations as to the present. Here we are less inclined to hold with him. But he is an eloquent and thoughtful expounder of his ecclesiastical creed. —A different view of the matter as it is to-day may be found in The Church and the Commonwealth, edited by Horace F. Tucker (Melville and Mullen, Melbourne, 3s. 6d. net). Canon Tucker edits in this volume twelve sermons preached on the occasion of the opening of the first Australian Parliament. Very likely Mr. Mackennal sees a confirmation of his views in this utterance of a. Church that is certainly not bound by State ties.
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