THE LITURGY— TWIN-CULTS— THE SONG OF SONGS 



The Earlsi Histor}^ of the Liturgy. By J. H. Srawley^ D.D., Rector of 

 JVeeting, Norfolk, sometime Tutor of Selwyn College, Cambridge. 



Small crown 8vo. pp. xx + 252. Price 6s. net 



In this volume oF The Cambridge Liturgical Handbooks the word 

 "Liturgy" is used to denote "the order of service employed in the central 

 rite of the Christian Church, the Eucharist"; and Dr Srawley, after tracing 

 its history in the Apostolic and sub-Apostolic Ages, in Egypt and Alex- 

 andria, in Palestine and Syria, in the churches of Asia and Northern Africa, 

 in North Italy and Rome, treats in his last two chapters of the development 

 of the Liturgy and the early conceptions of the Eucharist which its history 

 illustrates. 



Boanerges. By Rendel Harris. 



Demy 8vo. pp. xxiv + 424. Price 15^. net 



In this volume, in which the researches embodied in The Dioscuri in 

 Christian Legends (1903) and The Cult of the Heavenly Twins (1906) are 

 continued, the author shows the antiquity and wide diffusion of Twin-cults 

 and traces their modification from the primitive form which demands the 

 murder of the mother and children to the milder forms which lead to the 

 establishment of twin sanctuary towns. 



It is made clear that these twin-cults have made a deep mark upon 

 ancient and modern religions, and that they affect the legendary sides of 

 the Old and New Testaments as well as the mythologies of Greece 

 and Rome. 



The Song of Songs. Edited as a dramatic poem, luith introduction, revised 

 translation, and excursuses by If^illiam JValter Cannon. 



Demy 8vo. pp. viii+i5S. Price yj. dd. net 



The author's aim has been to write a book for those general readers 

 who would like to have some knowledge of the subject and hardly know 

 where to look for it. He wishes his readers not only to understand the 

 Song but to enjoy it as " the best Song of all." 



" It is not often that one meets with so completely delightful and satis- 

 factory a work as Mr Cannon's study of 'The Song of Songs. '...Mr Cannon 

 gives us a full and impartial explanation of the traditional theory, according 

 to which the poem describes the progress of the mutual affection, and the 

 subsequent marriage, of Solomon and the Shulamite ; and also of the Syrian 

 Wedding theory, which has recently won the support of very eminent 

 scholars. According to his own view, the Song is a dramatic poem, not 



intended, however, to be acted on the stage Mr Cannon's book is a most 



beautiful study of a poem of consummate charm." — JVestminster Ga%ette 



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