With regard to the marvellous growth of community life in the Church of England during the past half-century, it is only necessary to consult the pages of the _Official Year Book_. In the issue for 1904, seven closely-printed pages are occupied with terse accounts of the houses and work of Sisterhoods living under the vowed life, whose members are the very salt of the Church in their devotion to the religious life and to the discharge of corporal works of mercy. As to Brotherhoods, the growth has been steady; whilst certain rash attempts to establish communities of men have had but an ephemeral existence, others (notably the Cowley Fathers, the Order of the Resurrection at Mirfield, and the Society of the Sacred Mission) are doing a noble and apparently an abiding work. _Explicit_ J. PALMER, PRINTER, CAMBRIDGE. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Superscripted characters are preceded by a carat character: y^e. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. Archaic or variant spelling has been retained.