was like an impertinence to place it alongside Cardinal Capecelatro's still unsurpassed biography.

23-Those who revere the memory of the illustrious Bishop of Orleans, Mgr. Dupanloup, will be glad to receive this volume of extracts from his Journal Intime. * The selections are the daily jottings of a man of profound piety. They are entirely spiritual, and reveal the inspiring spectacle of a man engaged in multitudinous labors, far-reaching projects, and historic controversies, and at the same time looking ever toward interior union with Almighty God. Mgr. Dupanloup is a great figure in the church history of the last half-century, but greater a thousand times is he in this domestic history of his own soul. Those who must bear cares and endure opposition in somewhat similar way to him will draw the strength of sanctity from these simple pages of his hours of prayer.

24. The merits of Canon O'Rourke's excellent history of the Irish famine† are doubtless already well known to many of our readers. First published in 1874, and now in its third edition, it is altogether the most complete and reliable account we possess of an event which is the saddest perhaps in the pages of Irish history. In the treatment of his subject the author displays a clear and extensive knowledge of facts, together with a fair-minded, impartial, and truly historical appreciation of their value and bearing. His material, drawn for the most part from public and approved sources, is largely supplemented by the personal testimony of living witnesses, the survivors in that awful conquest of death. This gives a very living interest to the narration. The summary given at the head of each chapter also adds decidedly to the excellence of the book.

25.-Father Wilberforce has also presented us with a translation of a little treatise which Blosius originally joined as an appendix to the Book of Spiritual Instruction. The translator

Journal Intime de Monseigneur Dupanloup. Extraits Recueillis et Publiés. Par L. Branchereau. Paris: Librairie Téqui. 1902.

History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847. With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines. By the Rev. John O'Rourke. New York: Benziger Brothers.

A Short Rule and Daily Exercise. For a Beginner in the [Spiritual Life. By Ludovicus Blosius (Louis of Blois), of the Order of St. Benedict. Translated [by Bertrand Wilberforce, O.P. St. Louis, Mo.: B. Herder.

truly enough describes it as a sort of concentrated essence of the larger book. The form in which it now appears-it is a companion to the other small volumes, Oratory of the Faithful Soul and Mirror for Monks-makes it very easy to carry about with one, ready to be drawn forth when a quiet corner and a moment's rest allow us to forget the worry of life for a little while. The translator's wish is our own hope: "May it help many to seek God diligently and to love Him generously."

CHARITABLE WORK FOR ITALIAN GIRLS.

A FRIEND, who is in a position to know, writes from Italy to assure us that the Protestants are striving to proselytize the working girls of Rome. As an offset the Missionarie Francescane di Maria have established a workshop in the Holy City, and at present are giving employment to some sixty young women, who are thus protected against the efforts of the missionaries of Protestantism. The establishment in question, of course, is but a beginning and quite inadequate to the needs of the situation. It must spread in order to fulfil its mission, and American Catholics-whose missionary zeal is well known in Rome-have been appealed to for sympathy and co-operation. Beautiful embroidery and fine needlework, we are informed, are produced in these workrooms, and trousseaux prepared. Possibly some of our readers may see a way to enter into the work and act as a kind of American agent for the "Missionaries of Mary." If so, a letter to the Editor of THE CATHOLIC WORLD MAGAZINE will suffice to establish communication with the Roman house.

The Tablet (7 Feb.): Fr. Herbert Thurston considers Mr. Mallock's article on "Talking-Pictures" in their connection with the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy.

(21 Feb.): The same writer gives a further consideration of recent arguments in the question of the authenticity of the Holy Shroud of Turin, and says "it is to be hoped that a thorough scientific examination of the incriminated cloth will be permitted before it be again exposed to the solemn veneration of the faithful in the Cathedral of Turin."

The Critical Review (Jan.): The Life and Letters of James Martineau is briefly noticed by Rev. S. D. F. Salmond, who believes it to be a full and appreciative estimate of the lofty character and remarkable career of the great thinker. The first and greater part of the work is devoted to the biography, and in the reviewer's opinion is for the most part admirably done, though at times it is somewhat too full and detailed, and on that account fails to portray the personality of its subject with that perfect unity and vividness which one would desire. The second part contains copious selections from Dr. Martineau's extensive correspondence, which enable the reader to gain a clearer notion of his position in philosophy and theology as well as the influence of his thought and teaching on many of his great contemporaries.

The Month (Feb.): Newman's correspondence with Fr. Coleridge is continued throughout the year 1866, being largely taken up with protests against the calling of names and imputing of motives in controversy. Newman objected to the use of phrases like "foolish," "unscrupulous," "absurd," "childish," etc., in Fr. Coleridge's article on Pusey, and says: "Now, if even I feel pained to read such things said of him, what do you suppose is the feeling of those who look up to him as their guide ? They are as indignant at finding him thus treated as you are for his treatment of Catholic doctrine. They close their ears and their hearts. Yet these are the very people you write for. You don't write to convert the

good fathers at No. 9, but to say a word in season to his followers and to his friends." A letter from Fr. Coleridge in very manly fashion acknowledges the justice of these criticisms, and traces the fault to the atmosphere surrounding him at the time.

Father Tyrrell attempts a distinction between the inspired eternal elements of Christian ethics and the rational variable elements, "the mass of precepts and prohibition handed down from prehistoric times, and gathering in bulk from century to century," the result of human experience and reflection, of human credulity and ignorance. To winnow the chaff from the grain is the task of Christian reason aided by the breath of God's spirit.

Annales de Philosophie Chrétienne (Jan.): In some pages destined to serve as a preface to R. Charbonnel's essay upon "Literary Apologetic," P. Laberthonnière discusses the value and the character of the historical method so indispensable and so excellent when it displays "the sense of the relative," the sense that all our actions and all our formulas are imperfect and inadequate. They who anathematize the past must be shown that it still lasts in them; they who idolize the past must be reminded that no two instants in the life of humanity are altogether the same, any more than in individual life. Rassegna Nazionale (1 Feb.): Sig. Minocchi writes upon a recent article in l'Unità Cattolica, in which Prof. Magri copies from P. Gayraud's contribution to the Univers certain inaccurate and calumnious" criticisms of Loisy's answer to Harnack. Sig. Minocchi thinks that had Sig. Magri read Loisy's book he would never have given credit to P. Gayraud's remarks; for Loisy's real attitude was not that of one giving a complete demonstration of Catholicism, but rather of one turning a rationalist's own arguments against him. Luisa Alberti gives a most laudatory notice of P. Semsia's recent work on Doctrine, Hierarchy, and Worship in the Primitive Church.

Civiltà Cattolica (21 Feb.): In the course of a comment on the recent book of P. Fontaine, S.J., The Kantian and Protestation Infiltrations in the French Clergy, attention is drawn to the recent condemnation of Loisy's latest book, VOL. LXXVII.-9

and to the fact that certain articles in the Annales de Philosophie Chrétienne lean toward the subjectivism of Kant. It is also asserted that P. Fontaine is not the victim of a hatred for all kinds of progress in religious science. A detailed presentation is given of the unfortunate religious condition of the Italians in New York, as described in a recent issue of The Messenger, and emphasis is laid upon the duties of American Catholics towards their Italian coreligionists, who in large part come from southern Italy, where the people lack any sort of religious instruction.

Razón y Fe (Feb.): P. Murillo, continuing his discussion of the decadence of the Latin races, draws attention to the fact that although a characteristic proclivity of the Spanish is toward passivity, this tendency is better checked by the pursuit of the Catholic ideal than in any other way, and was least prominent in the days when Catholicism was most flourishing. Neither Spain nor Italy gives us reason. for believing that Protestantism or Revolutionism will cure the national vices of a people.

Science Catholique (Feb.): M. le Chanoine Gombault (Le Problème Apologétique) pursues his criticism of the immanent method; his conclusion is: L'Apologétique historique, telle qu'elle est conçue et appliquée par la methode d'immanence devient ainsi un imbroglio d'où il est impossible d'extraire la vérité et l'existence concrète de la Révélation. In Quelques Questions du traite de la Grace, etc., M. l'Abbé Michel supports the conclusion of M. Gayraud (St. Thomas et le Prédeterminisme), that while the motion of concurrence admitted by St. Thomas cannot be explained as the "simultaneous" of Suarez and Molina, nevertheless concursus "la motion dans lequel St. Thomas fait consister ce concours n'est pas, au moins pour les actes libres, une véritable predétermination physique." Other articles are: "Télégraphie et Téléphonie sans fil" (M. le Dr. Surbled), "Le Poéte Chrétien Prudence" (M. Maigret), "Le Programme d'Études

au Grand Séminaire de La Rochelle."

Revue du Monde Catholique (1 Feb.): M. Savaète, the managing director, and Mgr. Fèvre reply to an expostulation of M. Brancherau, who complained that in the "Centenaire de Dupanloup" Mgr. Fèvre had represented him