Forward Movement has issued a revised edition of Saint Augustine's Prayer Book , a long out-of-print manual of prayers first produced by the Order of the Holy Cross. The new edition is rather splendidly printed, bound in leather, the pages edged in gold. For the moment, this manual of private devotions is the latest in a long succession of primers, the first of which were produced laboriously by hand in the medieval church. These primers were immensely popular. Indeed it is estimated that the first printed editions numbered in the thousands, no unremarkable fact given the limited number of literate lay people in England at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Prayers are reproduced as they are found, some in traditional language, others in modern American. Much use is made of the prayer book's noon prayers and compline and its occasional prayers. Perhaps miraculously this creates a compendium of things old and things new which flows together with remarkable harmony.

One may hope that Bishop Hilsey's ambition to instruct youth (and the not-so-young) so as "to know first the true honour of God, and to know the honour that belongeth to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Holy Saints,"may continue to find contemporary expression by the wide use of this admirable volume. -The Rev. Anthony F. M. Clavier, A Welcome Return, review of Saint Augustine s Prayer Book: Newly Revised Edition, by The Rev. David Cobb and Dr. Derek Olsen, The Anglican, Pentecost 2014, Book Review, 33-34.