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LITERARY NOTICES.

Provincial Letters. By G. Stanley Faber, B.D. -London

W. E. Painter, 342, Strand

We have from time to time had occasion to speak of these
letters, which have appeared periodically in the pages of The
Churchman, published by Mr. Painter. We have here re-
printed, in a very neat volume, the first ten of the series ;
and to those of our readers, who are desirous of making
themselves acquainted with the most abstruse points of the
Tractarian heresy, upon which are founded its most dan-
gerous doctrines, we recommend an attentive perusal of Mr.
Faber's present work. To the theologian and the scholar,
the name of its author will be a sufficient guarantee of its
orthodox character and its learning. Few men have be-
stowed more unwearied attention and more extensive research
upon the very difficult subjects of which he here treats, and
with exceeding clearness and perspicacity. And those
churchmen, even, who may be infected with the high views
—the new lights, or old lights puffed in again—which,
amongst a certain class of people in the present day, have
becomefashionable, Mr. Faber's testimony cannot be lightly
esteemed, inasmuch as the rev. writer is as far as possible
removed from the lax or /ou, church principles of which they
are in the habit of complaining.

It is a common assertion made of the Tracts for the Times,
that they are addressed to the learned, or at all events to the
educated, amongst churchmen. Again and again has it been
said to the Protestant, startled at the system of semi-Popery
which be has seen stealing into light around him—amazed at
and denouncing the coquetting with Rome and her usages
which he has heard and witnessed from Protestant pulpits
and before Protestant altars—" Read the Tracts themselves,
study their principles, and estimate the unimpeachable lives
of their authors, before you condemn !" To the educated
man we might be induced to say so too; and we might add,
" Read also Me letters of Mr. Faber." There is but one
error into which we should fear that an educated churchman
could be misled by Tractarian writers—bnt to how many
does that one lead! The true church of Christ—the CA-
THOLIC cuioncu—if we believe the promises of its founder,
we must believe to have existed upon the earth without in-
termission up to the present moment. The Tractarians tell
us that that true church has been the Romish church ! They
falsify history to prove it ! Upon this ground they build
their plea for being reconciled with Rome—for union—for for-
giveness from " the mother of churches." Upon this ground
they denounce the Reformation, because it separated us from
Rome and her idolatries. Mr. Faber has ably controverted

this dangerous position of the Tractarian party--has cut their
fallacies to shreds—has gibbeted their jesuitical falsehoods ;
and for such a service he deserves eminently the gratitude of
the Protestant church throughout the world, and should be
read, as the antidote, by every Protestant who submits him-
self to the contact of the Tractarian poison.
To the unlearned Protestant—to the man who is content

to adhere to his Bible and the teachings of hisfait/tful clergy
—we say, of the Tracts for the Times," Touch them not."
Jesuitical tongues may tell of the learning and piety of their
writers ; envenomed tongues may rail upon those who do
not choose to crawl to the foot of Rome through the portals
of Oxford ; filth may be thrown by such, at those you love
and revere ; but still, stand ye fast upon the rock of the
Word of God, and upon that only !

The Church of England Quarterly Review. July, 1842.
London : W. E. Painter. Liverpool : Waring Webb.

The Church of England Quarterly, just published, is one
of the best of the series. With one of its articles, especially
that entitled " Modern English Monarchy," we have been
inexpressibly delighted. The lofty spirit of old English
Toryism breathes out in every line ; and we are compelled,
as we read it, to sigh over the evidences, which we see and
hear around us, of that fainting, half-and-half conservatism,
which scarcely dares to breathe to itself a noble sentiment or
a chivalrous aspiration, lest they should chance to ruffle the
smooth hair of liberalism, or induce to the suspicion of a
love for the " old ways" of our venerable constitution, or
the wisdom of our ancestors, by whom it was planted and
uatered, until it grew up to shed a glory over the land.
The article in question is a review of a work entitled
" Government from the Queen, and attempted Government
from the People," recently published by Henry Drummond,
Esq., in which the reviewer boldly throws down and tram-
ples upon the notion that England is one whit more happy
or more virtuous for all which modern enlightenment (!)
philosophy, and the progress of liberalised institutions has
Hear how nobly he lashes the upsetting
anity of the presumption in question!

for her

" Starting with these principles, Mr. Drummond speedily
comes to the conclusion, that " the most brief, and at the
same time most accurate, definition of liberalism is, that it is
irreligion." This is startling language ; and were it intended
to proclaim by it that all liberals are void of religion, it would
be as cruel and unjust as startling ; but as tersely describing
the practical tendencies and effects of liberalism, we hold it
to be strictly true ; from the most brilliant article in the
Edinburgh Review, sparkling with the gorgeous splendours
of Mr. Macauley's eloquence—from the flippant sneerings
of the Globe—from the coarse slang of the Sunday papers—
vie have never derived one holy religious thought; all alike
speak of men, of earth, the wonders of science, the ingenuity
of philosophers, the wisdom of statesmen, the liberties of the
people ; these are the themes of liberal eulogium, the objects
of liberal investigation. Talk to a liberal, philosophical, lite-
rary, or otherwise, of faith, humility, reverence, mysterious-
ness, and he will laugh at you ; bid him see in the anointed de-
scendant of a long line of kings, a being endowed with some-
thing more than the common dignity of man, and he will quote
some miserable sentence from Godwin or the Edinburgh
Review, about a petty constable ; bend low to receive a
priestly blessing from the lips of the hundred and fifty-third
successor of St. Peter and St. Paul, and he will, with learned
delight, begin to detail the iniquities of the popes, and
the passions of prelates, during what he calls ' the dark
ages ;' or if he be of an unusually philosophical turn of mind,
he will praise the wisdom of church polity, and rank paro-
chial clergy in the same category of usefulness with poor law
commissioners and rural police ; thus, while professing to
raise the state and elevate the ideas of the peole, he is in
them, beating them down to pearth and
reality lowering
chilling each shoot that would fain struggle up to heaven.
How different is this vulgar spiptless materialism from the
buoyant, chivalrous, souL-stirnng spirituality of by-gone
days! And how different, !dos! is the condition of the
lower orders now from what it was then. Together with the
notion of sacredness in kings and nobles, and all in authority,
has departed the kindred notion of their responsibility :
together with reverence for the church and her offices, has
vanished the joyous celebration of her holydays. The village
maypole has disappeared with the uncovered head to the vil-
lage priest ; and the yule log has ceased to be lighted in the
hall with the fealty that bound the carousers to its honoured
possessor. Merry England is merry England no longer ; in
our teeming manufactories, our comfortable houses, our
orderly prisons and workhouses, in our poverty-striken,
white-washed, and locked-up churches, we plainly read this,
that self, mammon, and independence, have driven away
from their old haunts among the green woodlands, and
smiling valleys, and cheerful villages of England, neighbour-
liness, charity, and devotion."

The utilitarian may sneer at this picture. Heaven help
him ! He never saw even the little which still remains of
merry England." His smoke-dried, Mammon-calcined
heart never bounded as he trod by the bright streams or
over the heathy hills which were unprofaned by the blackness
and the smoke of dinning worldliness. His foot never en-
tered the humble cottage under which dwelt humble, guile-
less, and unperverted souls. A crowd of unsightly chimnies ;
muddy streets, passengered by starving, half-clad infants,
hurrying to their toil ; wretched furnitureless hovels, sur-
rounding the splendid gin-palace ; careworn, wretched faces,
listening to the ribald fun, of demagogues, or imbibing the
infidel trash of socialism and chartism, in an atmosphere of
tobacco-fumes and curses—these are the objects from
amongst which the utilitarian has constructed the beau ideal
of an earthly paradise ! With such a state of squalid wretched-
ness as this it is that liberalism would cover the lice of that
which was wont to be " merry England !" (Ave us back,
rather, we say, and so says our reviewer, the wealth of the
days of old, which consisted in the fewness of our wants ;
give us back the contentment, the dependence of the days of
old, which was LIBERTY compared to the real serfdom of
men who now boast and philosophise, in rags, about " free-
dom."" inalienable rights," and " equality;" give us the
happy heart of the cottager and the yeoman, the patient
thrift of the tradesman, the liberal hand of the merchant,
the
Allqa ire, and the noble ; and we would give up with glad-
nesswhell modern liberalism would present us withal,
when it heads up to our view its gaudy picture of the condi-
tion of the first commercial,e manufacturing, and philosophi-
cal nation of the
Liberalism has
; giant strides of late in the spread of
her hard utilitarian
philosophy—in banishing from the heart
of the people of this empiretT the chivalrous sympathies, the
love of the beautiful in and thought and deed, the pure
pleasures and healthful aspiri s which characterised society
in bygone times. Our reviewer sanguine in the expecta-
tion that brighter days are in store. that the onward march
of democracy, of Nlalthusian principle and heartless unbelief, '
is about to be arrested. would that we could confidently
entertain such a belief, which is thus beautifully expressed
by the writer !

be fought,
•
pride,
" The struggle ig to he made, the battle '
not so
and amidst all the luxury and crime, and intellectual
and irreligion, around us, we say, that the struggle
desperate, the battle not so decidedly against'ugse, ,liss to
prive us of hope. We have still the forms of monarchy—
wed have still, " tbank God ! a House of Lords!"
an a,,,r, .
_
cultural population—and above all, we have still among's' o
a living witness of God's presence, his Church. Let no one'
then despair, but let each, in his own place, and after his
own way, endeavour to strengthen the hands of the
to sove_
reign, to cause more well-merited respect to be paid the
aristocracy, to knit the lower orders to those above them
and obedience,
in the sanctifying bands of responsibility
and to clear away the obnoxious weeds that at present
obstruct the triumphant progress of the catholic church to
universal empire. But people will say, "It is too latetings
have gone too far; it is the merest dream to talk about divine
right, and a submissive people, and a triumphant church ;
the time is not propitious for notions such as these."
We say, it is propitious. From one end of England to the
other, the poor people are awaking to a knowledge of the
unreality of the shams which are being palmed off upon them
underof
human
names of liberty, and a free press, and the dignity
annature. The aristorracv are opening their eyes to
the fact that they
privileges to enj
have high and holy duties to perform, as
well as •
others to appreciate,oy. The clergy appreciate, and teach
more and more the awful trust that is
committed tothem while,

" Like some old vision of a fairy bright,
Armida, Clarion, or Titantia light,'

on the throne of the Athelings, the Plantagenets, the Tudors,
and the Stuarts, sits one, round whom may well rally all that
remains of chivalrous loyalty, unhesitating obedience, un-
doubting faith, and uncalculating devotion-4 one,' in the
glowing language of a young senator, ' more simple and
unostentatious than Anne, more courageous than Elizabeth,
more constant in her attachments than Lary Stuart, more

graceful and yueeutike than Mary Tudc

all these

We thank God, with him, that " we
Lords." We have more. We have a rising aristocracy,

awe still a House of

numbering amongst its members such names as those of
ASHLEY, MANNERS, AT AllON—men who, in a frivolous and
infidel age, in the midst of the luxury and splendour of their

elevated position, in the face of scorners, dare to be religious—
dare to profess and exercise a feudal care of the depressed
poor of the land ; and with such men to be the leaders in a
movement so noble, if we hope with trembling, we dare not
despair. _

We have exceeded, in our notice of this article, the space
which we had devoted to the remaining portion of the re-
view. We must, therefore, pass them over with merely re-
cording our approval of the spirit in which they are written,
and the eminent usefulness of some of the topics selected.
As one, we may mention, as distinguished by both these
characteristics, the article on the Three Sermons of the
Church, by the Lord Bishop of London, upon the merits
of which we heartily coincide with the reviewer ; and we may
here mention, that the discourses in question have been
reprinted, in a cheap form, by one of our rectors, for dis-
tribution amongst his flock. As another, distinguished by
the latter characteristic, we may mention the article entitled
" School Books."

* Speech of the Hon. G. S. Smythe, at Canterbury, 1841

The National Psalmist. By C. D. Hackett. Parts 111.,
IV., and V. London : Shnpkin, Marshall, and Co.

Mr. Hackett progresses with this admirable publication,
and, we trust, receives the weed which is his due in the
patronage of every lover of English psalmody. In the num-
bers before us, in addition to several fine melodies from his
own pen, and those of many of our most eminent living
composers and performers of sacred music, we have a mul-
titude of fine old tunes—strains which have pealed from the
lips of martyrs, which have been sung by the champions of
the reformation, and been listened to with holy satisfaction
by ears accustomed even to drink in the Circeian melodies
with which Rome delighted, and still delights to enchant the
senses of her slaves—rescued from absolutely perishing
amidst the trumpery ornament with which ignorant and taste-
less men have loaded them. The noble old melody of " Ha-
nover," we have here as we have heard it long years ago.
Luther's " Old 81st" is here too in its primeval spirit-stirring
score. Greene's " Aylesbury" peals its funeral notes upon
our ear, solemn and dirgelike ; and, most cherished of all,
we have the " Evening Hymn," (Tallis's,) the same noble
tune which, twenty or thirty years ago, was wont to be sung
before evening prayer in every village church throughout the
land, stript of the ballad turns and graces (.') which even
then had fastened upon it, and restored to its original chaste
and noble notes.

We must really urge the adoption of some at least of the
old melodies contained in this collection, upon our clergy.
There can be nothing worse than the singing, unless it be
the music sung, in some of our churches, and especially in
those in which congregational singing is practised. We
have before remarked upon the cause of this defect. The
congregations are lost in the tunes played and sung by the
choir. But let any of those melodies be adopted which are
familiar, or their airs at least, to most churchgoing people,
and we may possibly be able once more to hear music worthy
to form a portion of our noble church service, and calculated
to increase and give fervour to devotion.
By the way, we were not a little amused at the handle
which was made by a contemporary a few days ago of this
excellent publication, to enable him to have a side fling at
the Protestant Church of England, which is distasteful to
this professing Tractarian. Puseyism views the National

Psalmist as calculated to correct what he in his wisdom is
pleased to consider as low church innovations in our
Psalmody ! We certainly never heard before that Puseyism
had any violent affection for the melodies of our English
Reformers—of Luther and others, whose compositions are to
be found in this work—or for congregational singing at all.

Rome, at least—the " HOLY HOME" of Tractarianism—is
not a pattern for Church of England Psalmodists to follow ;
for, when it serves her turn, she can jig it with the first of
the conventicles. If our contemporary is sceptical upon this
point, we beg to refer him to the " Catholic Directory for
18-12," in which is noticed with approbation a volume of
Hymns, by a fair writer, set to tunes which are rather a
leetle too much for our notions of church music. We copy
a verse of one which the reader will please to notice is to be
sung to the air of—JESSIE OF DUMBLANE!!

" Oh Mary, my mother, most lovely most mild,
Look down upon me, your poor weak lowly child ;
Behold all my woes, I disclose unto thee,
Then Mary, my mother, look down upon me.
Oh, what could I do
If deserted by you," &c. !! !
Or our contemporary might try it to " Kitty of Cole-

" Oh, what could I do, love ?
'Twas looking at you, love," &c.
Mr. Hackett, however, will survive the praises of the
writer in question.

The Sportsman, La Belle Assemblee, and The Farmer's
Magazine. Rogerson, Norfolk-street, Strand, London.

The enterprising publisher of these three magazines appears
determined to maintain his ground. The Sportsman con-
tains some capital articles of interest, and two beautiful
plates—one, entitled" The Road," in which a dashing " four-
in-hand" is seen going the pace clown hill without a slipper.
The other is " Attila," the winner of this year's Derby. The
likeness is a very good one. Amongst the literary portion
we find articles by Nimrod, The Rough Rider, Touchstone,
Roslyn, Cawdor, Captain Harris, Piscator, &c. The Belle
has a smart engraving, entitled " The Passion Flower." The
literary portion is more than usually excellent, and the con-
tributions will greatly amuse the gentle sex, for whom the
magazine is especially intended. The Farmer has many
very good communications, suitable to the season, well worth
the notice of the agriculturist. There ought not to be a
farm-house in the kingdom without a copy of this magazine
being found in it, so much information does it contain. The
illustrations are good, as usual. We know not the reason,
but these magazines come to hand very late in the month.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

The Rev. James Flay Waugh, M.A., of Magdalene Hall,
has been presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Cerne Abbas,
Dorset, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Davis.
The Rev. gdwara Meade, M.A., of Wadham College, has
been presented to the Rectory of Winkfield, Wilts, vacant
by the death of the Rev. T. Spencer.
The Rev. John George John Gifford, M.A., formerly
Fellow of St. John's College, Preacher at St. James's,
Piccadilly, has been appointed Jncumbent of Matthew's
Church, Spring-gardens.

PROMOTIONS

Rev. Joseph Grisdale, 8.A., formerly of Emmanuel Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Burton Hast-
ings, Warwickshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T.
South.

Rev. Richard Haggitt, M.A., Fellow of Clare Hall, Cam.
bridge, to the Rectory of Farnham All Saints with Westley,
Suffolk; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Clare Hall.
Rev. William Thomas Hurt, M.A., of Trinity College,
Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Sutton-cum-Lound, Notts ;
patron, the Duke of Portland.
Rev. William Fison, M.A., of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of New Buckenham, Nor-
folk, on the nomination of the majority of the inhabitants.
Rev. John Bowness, to the Perpetual Curacy of Hutton
Bonville, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. L. F.
Clarke ; patroness, Miss Peirse.
Rev. Frederick Robertson, to be Curate of Christ Church,
Cheltenham.
Rev. John W. Grier, nephew to the late Archbishop of
Dublin, to the Incumbency of Amblecote, near Stourbridg,e ;
patron, the Earl of Stamford.
CIVIL LAW.—The Regius Professor's lectures commence
on Tuesday, the Sth of Nevember. The following is the
authentic list of the classes published for the course com-
menced in 1841 and concluded in 1842:—
First Class.—Hugh J. Hindley, Queen's College; T. D.
Miller, Magdalene College.
Second Class.—L. Morrison, Trinity College ; H. P.
Marsharn, Trinity Hall ; and W. Seymour, Trinity Hall.
Third Class.—W. M. Bruton, St. Peter's College and ,f.
G. Stawell, Caius College.
HEAP IVIASTERSIIIP OF RITGBV.—A brisk canvass is going
on in the university for this appointment. The following
names are prominently put forward as candidates :—The Rev.
C. Merivale, 8.D., Fellow, Tutor, and Bursar of St. John's ;
the Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D,D., formerly Fellow of the same
college, and now head master of Shrewsbury school ' • and the
Rev. J. Hildyard, M.A., Fellow, Tutor, and Dean of Christ's
College. The following candidates are alto spoken of :—the
Rev. J. W. Blakesley, M.A., and the Rev. C. J. -Vaughan,
M.A., both Fellows of Trinity ; altogether, including Ozford
and Cambridge men, there are about twenty candidates in
the field.
The Rev. T. W. Richards, 8.A., of Sidney College, and late
curate of St. Andrew's, Worcester, has been appointed ma.
thematical master of Oundle Grammar-school.
TILE CHURCH,

Ordinations.--On Sunday, the 10th, in the cathedral
church of Durham, by the Lord Bishop of the diocese :
Priests.—The Rev. G. Capel, 8.A., Queen's College; the
Rev. E. Wheeler, 8.A., Christ's College.
Deacons.—F. Calder, 8.A., St. Johr.'a College ;A. 0.
Wellsted, 8.A., Catherine-hall.
On the same day, at Farnham Castle, by the Lord Bishop
of Winchester :
Deacons.—Charles W. Marsh, Boutflower, 8.A., St.
John's College; John Newman Harrison, 8.A., Caius
College • Charles Kingsley, 8.A., Magdalene College.
On the same day at Auckland Castle, by the Lord Bishop
of Durham :
Priests.—Melsuo Hill, 8.A., Jesus College ; Colin Camp-
bell, 8.A., St. John's College ; Octavius James, 8.A., St.
John's College.
Deacon.—John Horrace Bastard, B.A„, Trinity College.
On
the same
tdayhe diocesea t All S(afionrt's the t
c huorrcdh
B,
itstorpe f 'oofr d, by the
LordLichfield,
who was unable_ to officiate on account of illness)
H. Priests.—Robert John Hope, 8.A., Catherine-hall ;W,
Edward Henry
Barber, Magdalene College ; W. S. Vawdrey, M.A..,
Corpus College.
James Gravey, 8.A., Christ's College ;
Queen's College
College ; William Rowerißstmas
Hateliard, B.A , Cr' -M•A• Trinity College ; John Alton
Deacons,—Samuel
; Johnst.t\Brown, 8.A., St. John's
Webb, 8.A.. Corp4s c'hri.A., Caius College ; John Blurton
ollege ; Robert Hey, 8.A.,
St. John's College
Charles Henry Ra,sden, B, A• 8.A., Jesus College;
diracsnsall; George Wafmer, 8.A.,
Barrwell Greenwood, Catherine'l,-, Trinity College; Henry
Trinity College, by letters
of Chichester. °rY "al the Cord Bishop
On this occasion an eloquent sermon
of Corpus Christi College, Christian Al iuister, was peached thei;y:ebeeandountieosf DLfictlhie_
tell,i3appla.in to the Lord Bishop of that diocese.
Rev. Henry
the 31st. inst., an ordination Vll
fiCeaolldtihiarnodp Sunday,
by the Lord Bishop of Ripon, at Ripon. Ibe holden
High-Stewardship of Westminster.—This office has beau
conferred conferred by the Dean and Chapter on his GDuke
•race the eeu
of Buccleuch, who is a member of. St. John's College in this
university. It had been recently held by Lord Sidinouth,
who has resigned.