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Patterns of Reform: Continuity and Change in the Reformation Kirk. By James Kirk. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1989. xxii + 518 pp.

James Kirk has not produced in this work a history of the Scottish Reformation, but has instead presented a series of essays dealing with various topics relating to the movement. There are altogether twelve essays, some of them over 60 pages in length, covering topics from the Middle Ages down to the seventeenth century: 1) The Privy Kirks and their antecedents, 2) Clement Little's Edinburgh, 3) The Calvinist Contribution to the Scottish Reformation, 4) Recruitment to the Ministry at the Reformation, 5) The Superintendent: myth and reality, 6) Minister and Magistrate, 7) John Carswell, Superintendent of Argyll, 8) The Kirk and the Highlands at the Reformation, 9) The Polities of the Best Reformed Kirks, 10) The Survival of Ecclesiastical Patronage after the Reformation, 11) The King's Bishop: Archbishop Spottiswoode, 12) The Jacobean Church in the Highlands, 1462— 1625.