MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND ART. 599 



LITURGIA BRITANNICA TUTAMEN : AN ESSAY TOWARD A REVISION ov THE 

 BOOK OP COMMON PRAYER, HUMBLY PRESENTED TO THE UNITED CHURCH 



OP ENGLAND AND IRELAND. LONDON. HATCHARD AND SON. 







WE doubt whether this is altogether an efficient substitute for the Book of 

 Common Prayer, though it is, in some respects, an improvement upon it. 

 The introduction of appropriate anthems on particular days ; the choice of 

 certain psalms, instead of leaving them to be determined by the day of the 

 month ; and the alterations in the Gospels and Epistles, and the lessons of 

 the Sabbath, we think all highly judicious. The addition to the preliminary 

 sentences at Morning and Evening Prayers, seems to us unnecessary, and we 

 equally disapprove of the compression of the litany, and the incorporation of 

 the communion into the early part of the service. There is a sublimity about 

 the litany, which is ruined by abbreviation, and the ten commandments would 

 lose much of their impressiveness if no longer separately responded to, nor 

 delivered from the altar- table. The book, however, deserves the attention of 

 authority, for the order of prayer is capable of much improvement. What an 

 era in Christianity, and politics too, if Protestant, Dissenter, Methodist, and 

 Presbyterian could meet, and under the direction of " The defender of the 

 Faith," concoct such a form of worship as all might unite in ! 



THE BRITISH JEW TO HIS FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN. 



AT this period, the genius of universal emancipation would appear to have 

 descended to the earth; the Hindoo and the Negro are casting off their 

 chains, and the Children of Israel are about to enter into the ark of the 

 covenant. The rapid improvement in public sentiment, and the flight of 

 prejudice from these islands, has, indeed, in recent years formed a most 

 gratifying spectacle to the friends of liberty, justice, and Christian bene- 

 volence. The pamphlet before us contains the usual arguments in favour of 

 Jewish emancipation, which, it is to be hoped, will speedily be accom- 

 plished. 



PLAYS AND POEMS OP SHAKSPEARE. VOL. VI. EDITED BY A. J. VALPY, M. A. 

 LONDON. VALPY. 



THIS work, of which a sixth volume is under our notice, seems to go on 

 swimmingly; it gratifies us to hear that Mr. Valpy's speculation will be 

 eminently successful. The present volume, which is heralded by the Peans 

 of the London and Country Press, contains Macbeth, King John, and Richard 

 the Second, with the usual profusion of outline engravings. 



LIBRARY OF ROMANCE. VOL. IV. THE STOLEN CHILD. BY JOHN GALT. 



LONDON. SMITH AND ELDER. 



THE enterprising publishers and talented Editor of this " Library" seem 

 to be resolved on deserving, as well as achieving success. Four volumes 

 only have been published, and three of these are impressed with the honoured 

 names of Banim, Ritchie, and Gait men universally ranked among the elite 

 of modern novelists. The volume before us is in many respects highly credit- 

 able to its author. Dr. Wy combe, Pearl, and Mrs. Servit Audley, Lord 

 Byborough, and the two ladies, are characters conceived and made out in his 

 best style. There are some masterly touches in Jasper and his putative 

 father : but Villiers we vote a bore ; Troven excites no personal interest ; 

 and Mrs. Halden is an impertinence. Some objections may be raised 

 against the conduct of the story, towards the close ; but a large portion 

 particularly all the early part is managed with consummate skill. Many 

 of the scenes are timid, and leave the reader just where he was ; but 

 more of them are vigorous, highly-wrought, and bear the plot onward 



