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a tolerable one. 1 should try a volume of 

 Migne's " Complete Course of Patrology," 

 but I do not like books in more than one 

 volume, for the volumes vary in thickness, 

 and one never can remember which one 

 took ; the four volumes, however, of Bede in 

 Giles's " Anglican Fathers " are not open to 

 this objection, and I have reserved them 

 for favourable consideration. Mather's " Mag- 

 nalia " might do, but the binding does not 

 please me ; Cureton's " Corpus Ignatianum " 

 might also do if it were not too thin. I do 

 not like taking Norton's " Genuineness of the 

 Gospels," as it is just possible some one may 

 be wanting to know whether the Gospels are 

 genuine or not, and be unable to find out 

 because I have got Mr. Norton's book. 

 Baxter's " Church History of England," Lin- 

 gard's " Anglo - Saxon Church," and Card- 

 well's " Documentary Annals," though none 

 of them as good as Frost, are works of con- 

 siderable merit ; but on the whole I think 

 Arvine's " Cyclopedia of Moral and Reli- 

 gious Anecdote" is perhaps the one book in 

 the room which comes within measurable 



