I
will leave none of the ambiguity about my words in which Moore and
Wordsworth seem to have delighted. I am very sorry the book is
gone, and know not where to turn for its successor. Till I have
found a substitute I can write no more, and I do not know how to
find even a tolerable one. I should try a volume of Migne's
Complete Course of Patrology, but I do not like books in more than
one volume, for the volumes vary in thickness, and one never can
remember which one took; the four volumes, however, of Bede in
Giles's Anglican Fathers are not open to this objection, and I have
reserved them for favourable consideration. Mather's Magnalia might
do, but the binding does not please me; Cureton's Corpus Ignatianum
might also do if it were not too thin. I do not like taking
Norton's Genuineness of the Gospels, as it is just possible someone
may be wanting to know whether the Gospels are genuine or not, and
be unable to find out because I have got Mr. Norton's book.
Baxter's Church History of England, Lingard's Anglo-Saxon Church,
and Cardwell's Documentary Annals, though none of them as good as
Frost, are works of considerable merit; but on the whole I think
Arvine's Cyclopedia of Moral and Religious Anecdote is perhaps the
one book in the room which comes within measurable distance of
Frost.
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