If thus improved by the Convention of 1886, it might be finally adopted by the Convention of 1889. This conspectus of English critical opinion would be incomplete were no account to be made of the utterances of the various writers and speakers who dealt with the general subject of liturgical revision at the recent Church Congress at Portsmouth.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
More than any other single event the invention of printing hurried on the transition from the medieval world to the modern, but while many printers in Italy nearly ruined themselves by the zeal with which they helped forward the classical renaissance, all over Europe the medieval books which were still read were seized on for the press, so that in the books printed between 1470 and 1490 we are presented with a conspectus or summary of medieval literature.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
First the conspectus, then the details," he added delightedly.
"Watersprings"
Arthur Christopher Benson