ESSAYS ON LITURGIOLOGY AND CHURCH HISTORY. BY THE REV. J. M. NEALE, D.D. WARDEN OF SACKVILLE COLlege. WITH AN APPENDIX ON LITURGICAL QUOTATIONS FROM THE ISAPOSTOLIC FATHERS, BY THE REV. GERARD MOULTRIE, M.A. LONDON: BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. 1863. 100. p. 85 HAVE always felt that there ought to be fome efpecial reason why papers, which have ferved their turn in a periodical, fhould be collected into a volume. I may remark that the Effays, which the reader is about to perufe, are, in their nature, (for the most part,) rather fucceffive chapters of one work, than scattered papers in a quarterly review. In the latter, they appeared rather by neceffity, than by choice, of order. Perused, as they were to be, at fuch a distance of time from each other, an amount of recapitulation was fometimes neceffary, which rendered the Differtation in which it occurred the heavier reading; while, after all, it could not be expected that the ftudent, in giving his attention to an Effay of this quarter, fhould be able to revert to the fame fubject in a number of the Review which might be two or three years old. In the prefent volume the various papers have been arranged in proper order; reiterations, no longer necef |