possibility, in a ground of which part was intended to be consecrated, and part to be left, of a procession accurately defining the limits of the Church's portion, and so the act, if unjustifiable, yet valid. We should only be too glad to hear that such procession did take place in the grounds recently set apart for this end. But, granting— which we fear is the case-that it did not, what is it that is proposed by the Bishop? He intends to consecrate out of a piece of ground, the whole extent of which he does not see, as much as some other persons present, or not present, intend him to consecrate. Can anything be a wilder caricature of the doctrine of intention? Dissenters must, of course, be provided for: but the separation ought to be as complete in death as it was in life. The church and the meeting-house are not more distinct than must be the grave-yard of aliens and the cemetery of churchmen. Town-parishes, the cemeteries of which lie at a distance, must of course have a parish-hearse, just as they ought, under the old system, to have possessed a parish-bier of the proper shape. Of hearses we have already spoken, in another place; and we may, perhaps, in some number of the second Series of the Instrumenta Ecclesiastica give a design for one. We have in like manner described the arrangement and details of cemetery chapels,* and we may return to the subject. We are glad to hear that there is daily service in the cemetery chapel attached to S. Paul's at Oxford; and we hope that the example may become general. We scarcely know a more effectual service that could be rendered to the Church at this time, than by the purchase of a piece of ground as the cemetery for some one London parish,-the erection of a fitting chapel, with its lofty spire, and peal of bells, and of the cemetery cross, and the providing for the ringers. This would show how these things ought to be done. Then we should not hear aldermen proposing to bury any number of pauper corpses on Woking Common at six shillings a head. We should come to regard burying the dead as not the least work of mercy. We are about in the course of the Church's year, to enter on the book of Tobit; nay, by a curious coincidence, many of our readers will see this paper for the first time, when they have been instructing their flocks in the words of the Angel, "When thou didst not delay to go and cover the dead, thy good deed was not hid from me." We earnestly commend this subject to their consideration. We hope at no distant period to offer a few considerations on funerals, for which we have made some pretty extensive preparations, but time and space alike forbid it in the present number. We shall conclude with the earnest wish that, in this cemetery movement, the Church may know and defend her rights better than she did in the last; that she will take the lead in enforcing a just popular demand, namely against intramural interment, but not yield to, or be * We strongly urged, among other things, the necessity of an altar, for that Communion which is always contemplated by our Church at funerals. It is a curious and melancholy fact, that from constant confinement to the one rite of burial, and that alone, three successive priests attached to a northern cemetery are said to have lost their senses. disquieted by, a popular yell, namely for indiscriminate burial of the faithful and the schismatic in one ground. If she has been negligent in allowing abuses to exist in her churchyards, she has time to retrieve her neglect. Let her now come forward at once, let the Bishops speak their minds as to what they will not allow in cemeteries, and what they will require, and a movement, originally sanatory, will incalculably strengthen the hands of the Church, and promote the spiritual, no less than the temporal welfare of her children. ECCLESIOLOGICAL LATE CAMBRIDGE CAMDEN SOCIETY. THE secretaries have the pleasure to announce that the long promised report is now ready for distribution. Every member will be entitled to a copy upon application to our publisher: but it is impossible for the Society to forward his copy to each member by post. It may be necessary to state that no less than forty-three names have been removed from the list of members, of persons elected before 1842, who have not paid the small balances which would have entitled them to become life-members. The secretaries have also to inform the members that W. C. Luard, Esq., has kindly undertaken to arrange and catalogue the books, casts, and drawings belonging to the Society. It is requested, therefore, that all members who may have any part of the Society's property in their keeping, will return it as soon as possible to the rooms. REVIEWS. The Churches of the Middle Ages: or, Select Specimens of Early and MiddlePointed Structures; with a few of the Purest Late Pointed Examples, illustrated by Geometric and Perspective Drawings. By HENRY BOWMAN and J. S. CROWTHER, Architects. Manchester: 1848. THIS series can be best described-in the words of its authors' prospectus-as intended to be one of simple and practical utility.—It is not the purpose of the authors to enunciate any new principles, or theorise in any way, but simply to give Illustrations of entire Churches, of the purer styles, which, either as wholes, or from the great beauty of their details, will be of service in modern practice." Three Parts have already appeared, and deserve the highest praise and best encouragement. Fifteen plates are devoted to the illustration of S. Andrew, Ewerby, Lincolnshire; and two plates of details of S. Mary, Temple Balsall, Warwickshire, and a ground plan and perspective view of S. Andrew, Heckington, make us quite anxious to welcome the remaining plates of these fine examples. Ewerby is a magnificent specimen of a Flowing Middle-Pointed church, of moderate proportions, but with some remarkable features in the plan. For instance, there is no difference of internal floor-level between chancel and nave, no chancel-arch, and an engaged western tower. It is most perfectly measured and described: one can follow the most recondite beauties of the construction mouldings and joints in these plates, almost as well as in the original structure. Such a monograph as this-the most perfect in scale and minuteness that we have seen since our own publication of the chancel of All Saints, Hawtonwill be of incalculable value to the architects of our Colonies or the United States, who have no means of access to ancient churches. Hawton chancel was engraved on copper; these plates are on stone, done with remarkable skill and distinctness. The lettering alone seems to fail and we strongly recommend Messrs. Bowman and Crowther to use a more plain and intelligible alphabet, in their succeeding Parts. We remark that a north-eastern sacristy at Ewerby is destroyed, and its foundations have not been traced, nor its former existence distinctly indicated in the ground plan. And in the perspective view, from the southwest, there is a great awkwardness, owing to the point from which it is taken, not showing the south-aisle roof. A friend, on first looking at the plate, declared that there was a sham west-front to a south-aisle ; and it is difficult to get rid of this impression when once pointed out. It would have been better to have drawn it from a point further east. The two plates of windows from Temple Balsall introduce us to a specimen of earlier Middle-Pointed. We shall await the appearance of the remaining illustrations. Of Heckington we can only say that the perspective from the southeast presents a very vision of beauty. We can hardly conceive anything more perfect; and we should advise the authors, as they, very sensibly, mean to sell the plans, elevations and perspectives apart from the mere details, outlines of mouldings, &c., which interest few but professional people, to keep on sale for framing this particular plate, as a specimen of what a village-church may be. We heartily recommend this series to all who are able to patronize it. A Manual for the Study of the Sepulchral Slabs and Crosses of the Middle London: J. H. THIS is one of the manuals published under the sanction of the Archæological Institute. It contains ninety-two pages of letter-press, and eighty-four plates. The value of the book consists almost wholly in the illustrations, which embrace specimens of all kinds of sepulchral stones of different ages. As usual in Mr. Parker's books, we have here a repetition of some of his well known wood-cuts; but they are more admissible than usual when taking their place (as here) in a chronological series. We cannot compliment the author much on his dissertation. It wants arrangement and perspicuity, and has all the dulness of archæology pure, without any trace of deeper or more holy feeling than mere antiquarianism. In a section on inscriptions the author betrays a tendency to better things: but this most important department of his subject is treated in so superficial and miserably imperfect a way-in the compass of three pages!-that we almost believe some censor has been at work on the section with his shears. There is doubtless, or ought to be, a vast deal of information in this Manual, but we perused it without being able to carry away any very definite impressions, and could not determine whether or no we had learnt anything new from it. And there is no index to make it available for reference. And generally Mr. Cutts's authorities, from which one may always gather a notion of the value of such a compilation, are of a very second-rate kind. For example, so mediocre a work as Maitland's Church of the Catacombs is constantly referred to; and, of course, the Archæological Journal ad nauseam, and that most worthless of publications, Hart's Ecclesiastical Records, which our readers will remember that we were compelled to expose some time ago. It is by an inexcusable blunder that Mr. Cutts, when referring two or three times to the beautiful work on "The Ancient Sculptured Monuments of the County of Angus," reviewed in our last number, assigns its authorship always to Mr. Chambers, instead of to Mr. Chalmers, of Auldbar. Had he seen the book? We cannot congratulate the Archæological Institute on their Manual. New York Ecclesiologist. Nos. 1 to 5. 8vo. New York: Onderdonk. WE propose in our next number noticing at length that very interesting and useful journal, the New York Ecclesiologist. Nothing but the unfortunate miscarriage of the earlier numbers would have prevented our earlier fulfilling this pleasing duty. Having recently received the duplicates of the missing ones, we beg to acknowledge the interest with which we have skimmed over their contents. Westminster: Memorials of the City, S. Peter's College, the Parish Churches, Palaces, Streets, and Worthies. By the REV. MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M. A., of Exeter College, Oxford. Westminster : Masters. It would be simply impossible to compile a volume on such topics as those embraced in the above title, without gathering a host of curious, valuable, and amusing facts. And Mr. Walcott has been very diligent and painstaking in accomplishing his task. He has given us a volume -rather too bulky indeed, and such as it would be impossible to read through, but-full of all sorts of information. Two good and careful indices give a great additional value to the book; for as a volume of reference, we believe it may be generally useful, even to such as take comparatively small interest in the mere local disquisitions. Mr. Walcott might, we think, have been sometimes more judicious in selecting his stores: a few more parish-accounts and a few less modern epitaphs of utterly insignificant persons would have pleased us better. But we do not wish to be severe; and will only complain of a style not enough chastened, and of the book being too large and expensive for what it is. Mr. Walcott has a patience and a goodness of principle which well qualify him for this sort of rambling topographical antiquarianism and we hope we may meet him again, when we shall have no abatement to make in our commendation. NEW CHURCHES. S. Michael, York Town, near Sandhurst.-In our notice of this excellent design in our last number, we inadvertently forgot to mention that it was Mr. Woodyer's. S. ——, Trimpley, in Kidderminster.-A small Romanesque chapel, situated in a most beautiful rural district of the parish of Kidderminster. It consists merely of chancel and nave, with a western bell-cot, and a vestry to the north of the chancel. The chancel is apsidal and groined. The west front has an enriched door, over which is an ornamental arcade of five arches, with shafts and mouldings of good execution, and alternately pierced for windows. Above this is a circular window, the tracery of which is rather prettily ramified on a regular plan, but of doubtful authority, and which is surmounted by a hood ending in serpents' heads, much too large. The nave has three windows at equal intervals on each side, enriched with chevron mouldings, too large and too conspicuous for so small a church. There is an enriched chancel arch, and the windows of the apse are filled with very fair stained glass. The nave is fitted up with open seats, except three which have low doors, and there is the inconsistency of a small west gallery. The pulpit is of stone, in the north-east angle of the nave, and approached from the vestry. The lectern is a somewhat singular one of stone, with Romanesque ornament. The font has a plain cylindrical bowl of the proper size, upon a circular stone. The stone used in this church is principally of a coarse kind, but with a finer sort for the ornamental features. The bell-cot is too pointed for Romanesque work, and contains one bell in an open arch. Altogether, this may be considered a decent specimen of a small Romanesque church, were it ever right or allowable to use the style though some of the ornamental details are too strongly marked for a building of this size. : Holy Trinity, Normacott, near Stoke-upon Trent, Staffordshire. This church, by Mr. Scott, has been consecrated two years, and we wish that we had fallen in with it sooner, to compliment its architect upon the great success with which he has re-produced the graceful form of an old village church. The plan is composed of a nave with a south aisle of four bays, a porch on the north (the road side), and of a chancel, with the nave aisle continued eastward. The style is Transitional, between First and Middle-Pointed. The bell-cot stands |