Archbishop Laud's Commemoration, 1895. Edited by William Edward Collins, M.A.
(A. Southey and Co.)—So much has been written lately about Archbishop Laud that it is not necessary to do more than briefly describe the contents of this volume. The editor prefixes a short account of the Commemoration ceremony. Then follow lectures, " Laud's Position in the History of the English Church," by Bishop Creighton ; "Laud as a Statesman," by Professor W. E. Collins ; " Laud's Educational Work," by D. S. Margolioulh (who holds the Laudian Professorship of Arabic at Oxford) ; " Laud in Controversy," by the Rev. W. H. Hutton ; " Laud's Personal Religion," by the Rev. C. H. Si mpkinson. Then comes an article reprinted from the Times, and after this a " Laudian Bibliography," and, after this again, the " Catalogue of the Exhibition of LaudianRelics, &c." The chief articles in this, besides manuscripts, were a chalice given by him, when Bishop of London, to Holy Trinity Church, Knightsbridge, his walking- stick, and the skull-cap worn at his execution. There were also the shell of the tortoise which he brought to Lambeth in 1633, and which died in 1763, being then killed by the negligence of the gardener.
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