It might be fairly assumed that the editor of this volume, the father of the small scattered band of English professing the Orthodox Faith,father, both in superior years of church-membership, and in being the humble means by which divers of that small scattered band have been brought to share with him in that church-membership,-aims in its publication at placing before his spiritual children a portion of the food provided for them with such a bountiful hand by his and their common Mother. It might also, and with even greater fairness, be assumed, that having received the grace of the priesthood, it became almost a necessity to the editor to have at hand a manual wherewith such flock as he may possess, or such strangers as may visit him, may be enabled to join intelligently in the public church-offices at which they assist. But neither of these reasons, fair and natural though they are, nor both of them combined, were sufficiently powerful to justify the great labour and outlay incurred, intermittently, it is true, during upwards of five years, in the present publication. What has chiefly moved the editor, has been a desire to keep faith with general readers, to whom the promise was made in the edition, numbering 2000 copies, of 'THE DIVINE LITURGIES OF OUR HOLY FATUERS JOHN THE GOLDENMOUTHED (S. CHRYSOSTOM), AND BASIL THE GREAT: London, John Shepherd, 1865,' that certain

Appendices, A to L, referred to in the work, containing all the moveable portions of the Liturgies, will appear when completed.' (Page iv.) Although so long a period had elapsed, the editor did not consider himself released from the promise of 1865 and even if he had been so minded, others, who from time to time demanded those 'moveable portions,' were evidently not disposed to consider lapse of time a sufficient excuse for perpetual noncompliance with a public engagement. But the bulky form which those Appendices assumed, seemed to mock at the modest proportions (48 pages, large 8vo,) of the original work; and that original having for some time been out of print, it was necessary to republish it whenever the Appendices should appear. It was therefore judged as more fitting to prepare a larger work, which should not merely prove a better foil to those bulky Appendices, but should also give liturgical students a more complete idea of the Greek Church order, than a perusal of the Communion offices,-the Liturgies proper,-alone could furnish. The present volume is the outcome of this later, and, it is hoped will prove, better judgment.

The volume is merely what it styles itself,-THE OFFICE FOR THE

LORD'S DAY. It does not include any of the other day offices, (altho' each day in the year has its special service matter,) not even for the Lent, Passion, or Ascension seasons.