ART. I.-WILLIAM STUBBS, CHURCHMAN AND HISTORIAN - 1. Letters of William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, 1825- 1901. Edited by W. H. Hutton. London: Constable, 2. Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum: an attempt to ex- And other works. ART. II.-HORACE WALPOLE AND WILLIAM COWPER 1. The Letters of Horace Walpole, fourth Earl of Orford. Chronologically arranged and edited with notes and indices by Mrs Paget Toynbee. Sixteen vols. In progress. 2. The Correspondence of William Cowper. Arranged in chronological order with annotations by Thomas 1. Co-operative Production. Publications of the Labour Copartnership Association, 1901-3. Central Office, 15 Southampton Street, Holborn, W.C. 2. Twenty Years of Copartnership at Guise. introduction by Mr Thomas Burt, M.P. Translated from the French by Aneurin Williams. Labour ART. IV. THE MAKING OF THE UNITED STATES The Cambridge Modern History. Planned by the late Lord Acton; edited by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, ART. V.-POULTRY-KEEPING AS A BUSINESS 1. Our Poultry. By Harrison Weir. Two vols. London: 1. The Principall Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries of the English Nation. By Richard Hakluyt. New edition, in twelve volumes. In progress. Glasgow: 2. The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson. Vols I Letters Series.) London: Macmillan, 1882. 2. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Edited, with intro- ART. VIII. THE DIRECTION AND METHOD OF EDUCATION 197 1. Code of Regulations for Public Elementary Schools, with Schedules, 1904. [Cd. 2074.] 2. Regulations for the Training of Teachers and for the And other works. 1. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold. London and 2. Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888. and arranged by George W. E. Russell. ART. X.-TARIFFS AND NATIONAL WELL-BEING 1. Modern Tariff History: Germany, United States, France. By Percy Ashley. With a preface by the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, M.P. London: Murray, 2. The Rise and Decline of the Free-trade Movement. By W. Cunningham, D.D. Cambridge: Clay, 1904. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. 402.-JANUARY, 1905. Art. I. WILLIAM STUBBS, CHURCHMAN AND HISTORIAN. 1. Letters of William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, 1825-1901. Edited by W. H. Hutton. London: Constable, 1904. 2. Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum: an attempt to exhibit the course of Episcopal Succession in England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1858. 3. Select Charters and other illustrations of English Constitutional History. Ninth edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901. 4. The Constitutional History of England in its Origin and Development. Three vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1874-8. 5. Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Modern and Medieval History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886. 6. Ordination Addresses. Edited by E. E. Holmes. London: Longmans, 1901. 7. Historical Introductions to the Rolls Series. Collected and edited by Arthur Hassall. London: Longmans, 1902. 8. Visitation Charges delivered to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Dioceses of Chester and Oxford. Edited by E. E. Holmes. London: Longmans, 1904. 9. Lectures on European History. Edited by Arthur Hassall. London: Longmans, 1904. I. THE letters of the late Bishop of Oxford, William Stubbs, edited by Mr W. H. Hutton with the care and appreciation which belong to a labour of love, help us to understand the strength and depth of character of one who Vol. 202.-No. 402, B was not only among the first of English historians, but was also a great ecclesiastic and a remarkable man. We can see in these pages how much the practical work of the Church gained in compensation for the loss to science and literature when Dr Stubbs became a bishop, and brought to the counsels of the episcopate and to the guidance of a diocese his wealth of learning and his thoroughness of thought. We see him as a churchman of strong views, lofty aims, and distinctive powers. We see also how a character, naturally reserved, self-reliant, but somewhat timid in utterance, independent of others, but by no means anxious for power, was disciplined and strengthened by the opportunities and the troubles of life. The reminiscences incorporated in the memoir show that he was 'a strenuous worker from his earliest years.' He owed his historic taste and gifts in a large measure to his father, who was a solicitor at Knaresborough, and set him as a boy to read charters and old documents. He soon learnt to discern the difference between classical and medieval Latin, and became familiar with medieval phraseology. While at school in Knaresborough he was not only learning classics, but was also laying another foundation; he was learning and thinking deeply of religious matters.' All through his life he recurred to the benefit which he had derived from attending the Bible lessons given by a Mrs Stevens 'in a little room off Kirkgate.' He gave early evidence of his love of fun and of his political bent; at the age of six he was privileged to wave the true-blue Tory flag in the face of Henry Brougham.' 6 No man perhaps was more easily misunderstood, and therefore he was by many undervalued. One cause of this was his keen sense of the ridiculous. Canon Liddon wrote to him on his appointment to the see of Chester : 'You will have to be on your guard against looking at persons and events from the critical and humorous side'; but the Bishop could not, and perhaps would not, accept the warning; he would be himself and nothing else. Another cause of his being misunderstood was his contempt for public opinion. As he said in his first visitation charge in the diocese of Oxford: If I am told that I am an unmitigated sectarian, I will answer, I am |