good preservation. These were formerly hidden by the high backs of pews, which are now removed. The prayers and lessons are read from a lettern, looking north.

All Saints, Worcester.-Mr. Truefitt has succeeded well in a very difficult task here. The church is a most miserable building of the last century. The architect besides repairing this unpromising fabric, has re-arranged the churchyard, and surrounded it with a wrought-iron railing of bold and original design, stepped down to suit the inequalities of level. He has also given a better character to a house at the west end of the church.

NOTICES AND ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Churchman's Diary, for 1852, an Almanac and Directory for the Celebration of the Service of the Church, (Masters,) is now in the sixth year of its publication. We can recommend it as the best Directory we know of. Many of the hints and directions are truly useful; with others we should perhaps find some little fault, had we received the Almanac at an earlier period before our going to press. The tone assumed throughout is very dogmatic, but this is perhaps inseparable from a Directory. To many persons this will supply a want very extensively felt.

A Guide to the Christian Antiquities of Edinburgh. By JAMES A. StorHERT. In four series. London and Edinburgh: Dolman. This little volume rather disappointed us. Instead of a guide, or ecclesiological manual, we found it to be a series of quasi-religious addresses to a guild or fraternity, in the course of which the historical associations, rather than the monuments of Edinburgh, are discussed in a gossiping, but pleasing, way. Mr. Stothert, we observe, is of opinion that there is "but a slender chance" of the rebuilding of the church of the Holy Trinity, which, as our readers will remember, was so carefully removed from its original site, that all its stones were numbered for reerection in a new position.

We reserve till next number a review of a very important and interesting work by Mr. Wilson, Honorary Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, entitled The Archæology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland. (Edinburgh, Sutherland and Knox; London, Simpkin and Co.) It is a complete account of the whole subject of which it treats; and is beautifully got up, and illustrated. The title would not of itself prepare a reader to expect, what however we are glad to find in this volume, a discussion on Primitive" as well as Mediæval Ecclesiology." Mr. Wilson by no means confines his studies to "Prehistoric" times; and we have a very intelligent account of the Romanesque and Pointed Architecture of Scotland, together with a careful table showing in parallel columns, the chronological list of

English and Scotch reigns, dates, and architectural styles, with a list of examples taken from Scotland, corresponding to the dates. But we must not here anticipate a longer notice, intended for our next number.

To the Editor of the Ecclesiologist.

Mr. EDITOR, I suppose few readers of the Ecclesiologist deny that the preservation of our Abbey remains,-those monuments of the piety and munificence of the churchmen of old,--is of first importance. No one would hear unmoved, that Rievaulx, Fountains or Tintern were levelled with the earth; and in numerous instances this feeling is not merely theoretical: great pains are bestowed to preserve many of those structures whose every stone contains a history; but such is not the case with all, in some the work of decay has made such rapid strides, that all hopes of rescue are vain. For instance, the west front of Crowland must soon be numbered among things that have passed away. But amongst the monastic ruins, which though long neglected, are not yet past hope of preserving, the one I would call attention to is the famous Abbey of Whitby. This pile, first founded in the 7th century, by the Northumbrian king Oswy, is yearly decaying more and more, and yet little or no means have been adopted to stop the work of destruction, though with very little expense, by judicious means being adopted to support and not disfigure its time-honoured walls, the rock of Whitby may still for ages wear the crown which (if no means for its preservation be taken) the storms from the German ocean must soon deprive it of.

That some means may be adopted, and promptly, is the earnest hope of Your obedient Servant,

S. John's College, Cambridge,
Νου. 1851.

J. D. C. C. A. S.

To the Editor of the Ecclesiologist.

Truro, SS. Simon and Jude, 1851.

Sir,-As I am sure you will like the smallest errors in your notices to be pointed out, I write a line to say that the schools at Kea, Cornwall (mentioned in the Ecclesiologist for August, p. 296), were not from my designs, although those noticed immediately after, and said to be by "the same architect," are. Neither are they built of granite. They have granite dressings.

I remain, sir,

Your obedient servant,

WILLIAM WHITE.

W. W. should apply to an architect, not to a mere stone-cutter. He need not spend, probably, more than £10, in obtaining what he wishes; but that style is more costly than others, from the greater bulk required.

Received-A. S. Norton; (his question is scarcely definite enough.) I. R. G.; (under consideration.)

INDEX.

Legal opinion as to Lights on the Altar,
161.

Legal opinion on the position of the cele-
brating priest, 91.

Llandaff Cathedral, 102.