Contents.

A.
An Affecting Incident at Sea,[32].
Alone,[42].
A Midnight Mass,[42].
Abolishing Barmaids,[80].
A Valiant Soldier of the Cross,132.
A Child of Mary,144.
A Christmas Carol,165.
A Silly Threat,173.
A Chapter of Irish History,223.
About Critics,256.
A Thought for Easter,460.
B.
Bay State Faugh-a-Ballaghs,229, 347.
Blaine on Britain,438.
Before the Battle,550.
C.
Crown and Crescent,[79].
Christianity in China,[81].
Capital and Labor—Strikes,232.
Columbus and Ireland,368.
Chanson,406.
Canossa at Last,522.
Chinese Labor,505.
D.
Dead Man's Island: The story of an Irish Country Town,[33], 145.
Drunkenness in Old Times,351.
Deaths of the Apostles,460.
Decrees of the Third Plenary Council,529.
Death of Rev. Father Ryan,570.
E.
Encyclical Letter of Our Most Holy Lord Leo XIII, by Divine Providence, Pope,[1].
Encyclical Proclaiming the Jubilee,259.
England and her Enemies,264.
Echoes from the Pines,310.
Emmet's Rebellion,335.
Emmet's Love,435.
Early Irish Settlers in Virginia,523.
Etoile du Soir,501.
F.
Four Thousand Years,[80].
Faro's Daughters,[82].
Frau Hütt: A Legend of Tyrol,308.
Farewell, my Home,345.
Father Matt,497.
G.
Gladstone at Emmet's Grave,[61].
Gerald Griffin,[62], 139.
George Washington,142.
Give Charity while you Live,333.
Gladstone,536.
H.
His Eminence John Cardinal McCloskey, with Portrait,[18].
Harvard College and the Catholic Theory of Education,[31].
Honor to the Germans,[57].
Historical Notes of Tallaght,405.
Hancock and the Irish Brigade,411.
Heroism,542.
Home Rule,565.
I.
Interest Savings Banks,228.
Ireland: A Retrospect,266.
Ingratitude of France in the Irish Struggle,277.
Instances of Divine Vengeance,445.
Ireland our Mother Land,447.
J.
Juvenile Department,[83], 179, 270, 373, 469, 552.
John Scotus Erigena,306.
John C. Schayer,568.
K.
Knights of Labor,433.
L.
Low-necked Dresses,367.
Leo the Great,466.
M.
Mary E. Blake,139.
Musings from Foreign Poets,312.
Much-a-Wanted,339.
Mixed Marriages,344.
Miss Mulholland's Poems,369.
Major-General John Newton,401.
May Ditty,465.
"My Victim:" A Tale,506.
N.
Notes on Current Topics,[97], 193, 289, 385, 481, 573.
Notices of Recent Publications,105, 205, 301, 381, 397, 487, 585.
O.
Order of the Buried Alive,[30].
Obituary,[107], 207, 302, 398, 496, 586.
Our Neighbors,168.
Our Gaelic Tongue,222.
O'Connell and Parnell,278.
Our New Cardinal,359.
Orders of Knighthood,366.
Our Saviour's Personal Appearance,414.
P.
Private Judgment a Failure,[72].
Priests and People Mourning,[74].
Personal,[104], 300, 396, 493, 584.
Parnell's Strength,172.
Pen Sketches of Irish Litterateurs,209.
Pneumonia,462.
R.
Rev. Father Fulton, S. J.,[71].
Rapidity of Time's Flight,178.
Reminiscences of the Battle of Kilmallock,503.
Rev. Father Scully's Gymnasium,537.
Rabies (Hydrophobia),543.
S.
Sing, Sing for Christmas,[32].
Southern Sketches,125, 215, 113, 440, 516.
Senator John J. Hayes,235.
Saints and Serpents,237.
Seeing the Old Year Out,370.
Sir Thomas Grattan Esmond, Bart.,415.
St. Rose,434.
Shamrocks,440.
Sorrowing Mother,515.
Science and Politics,502.
T.
The Pope and the Mikado,[29].
The Hero of Lepanto,[44].
The Church and Progress,[49].
Tracadie and the Trappists,[59].
The Humorist,[96], 210, 306.
The Columbian Army of Derry,113.
The Penitent on the Cross,120.
The Celt on America,121.
The Late Father Tom Burke,166.
The Old Year's Army of Martyrs,170.
The Pope on Christian Education,174.
Te Deum,176.
The Poems of Rosa Mulholland,248.
The Celts of South America,258.
The Welcome of the Divine Guest,305.
The Ursuline Convent of Tenos,316.
The Church and Modern Progress,328.
The Annunciation,339.
The Ten-Commandment Theory,346.
The Paschal Candle,352.
The Irish as Conspirators,362.
The National Catholic University,407.
Thot's of Ireland,423.
The Middogue,424.
The Passion,430.
The Holy Mass,446.
The Instruments of the Passion,464.
The New Era,465.
Terrence V. Powderly,561.
The Keegan Challenge Fund,564.
The Providence Cathedral,546.
Three Decisions,551.
U.
Useful Knowledge,[95], 209, 305.
V.
Vindication,[58].
W.
What English Catholics are Contending For,276.
William J. Onahan,467.

His Eminence John Cardinal McCloskey.
See page [18].