“_We have rarely come across a book dealing with an old subject
in a healthier and, as far as may be, more original manner, while
yet thoroughly practical, than ‘Our Mother Church,’ by Mrs. Jerome
Mercier. It is intended for and admirably adapted to the use of girls.
Thoroughly reverent in its tone, and bearing in every page marks
of learned research, it is yet easy of comprehension, and explains
ecclesiastical terms with the accuracy of a lexicon without the
accompanying dulness. It is to be hoped that the book will attain to
the large circulation it justly merits._”――JOHN BULL.
“_We have never seen a book for girls of its class which commends
itself to us more particularly than ‘Our Mother Church’ by Mrs. Jerome
Mercier. The author, who is the wife of an earnest parish priest
of the Anglican school, near London, calls her work ‘simple talk on
great subjects,’ and calls it by a name that describes it almost as
completely as we could do in a longer notice than we can spare the
volume. Here are the headings of the chapters:――‘The Primitive Church,’
‘Primitive Places and Modes of Worship,’ ‘The Early English Church,’
‘The Monastic Orders,’ ‘The Friars,’ ‘A Review of Church History,’
‘The Prayer Book,’ (four chapters), ‘Symbolism,’ ‘Church Architecture,’
‘Windows and Bells,’ ‘Church Music,’ ‘Church Work.’ No one can fail
to comprehend the beautifully simple, devout, and appropriate language
in which Mrs. Mercier embodies what she has to say; and for the facts
with which she deals she has taken good care to have their accuracy
assured._”――STANDARD.
“_The plan of this pleasant-looking book is excellent. It is a kind
of Mrs. Markham on the Church of England, written especially for
girls, and we shall not be surprised to find it become a favourite
in schools.... It is really a conversational hand-book to the English
Church’s history, doctrine, and ritual, complied by a very diligent
reader from some of the best modern Anglican sources._”――ENGLISH
CHURCHMAN.
=THE DIVINITY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST=; being the
Bampton Lectures for 1866. By HENRY PARRY LIDDON, D.D., D.C.L.,
Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the
University of Oxford. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s.
=SERMONS PREACHED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.= By HENRY
PARRY LIDDON, D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland
Professor of Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Fifth
Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. 5s.
=SOME ELEMENTS OF RELIGION.= Lent Lectures. By HENRY PARRY LIDDON,
D.D., D.C.L., Canon of St. Paul’s, and Ireland Professor of
Exegesis in the University of Oxford. Crown 8vo. 5s.
=HOUSEHOLD THEOLOGY=: A Handbook of Religious Information
respecting the Holy Bible, the Prayer Book, the Church, the
Ministry, Divine Worship, the Creeds, &c., &c. By JOHN HENRY
BLUNT, M.A. New Edition. Small 8vo. 3s. 6d.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account