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ART. I.-The Quarterly Review for May, 1843-No. CXLIII. Art. VIII. On the Rubrics and Ritual of the Church. London: Murray. 1843.

THE course pursued by the reviewer, in the article on which we now purpose to offer certain animadversions, is somewhat singular; for, in former numbers, a very different tone, unless we are altogether mistaken in our apprehension of the present and preceding articles, was adopted by that journal, from that which pervades the remarks on the rubrics and ritual of the Church in the number just published. Our readers will remember that some previous articles indicated a considerable degree of acquiescence, to say the least, in the peculiar views of the Tracts for the Times. At all events, the articles to which we refer were viewed by the public as friendly to those publications. They were so viewed by friends and by foes-by those who advocated the principles of the Tracts, as well as by those who opposed them. Indeed, there could be no mistake on the subject. The Quarterly Review was claimed by the writers as a powerful ally, while all sound and prudent Churchmen regretted that the countenance of that periodical should be given to publications which, though they were ably written, contained no small portion of error.

One circumstance strikes us as very remarkable in this matter. In all former articles no term was used, in speaking of the writers of the Tracts, which could be considered as offensive, or which was adopted by the acknowledged opponents of those publications; but in the article now under review a decided change in this respect is evident, and the term or desig

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