This able essay of the Bishop of Orleans was translated for and appeared in The Catholic World very soon after its appearance in France, nearly two years ago. We see Mr. Donahoe has used the London translation.
Poems.
By James McClure.
New York: P. O'Shea. Pp. 148. 1869.
We cannot praise the "poems" contained in this volume, and the modesty of the author's preface disarms adverse criticism.
A Manual Of General History:
being an outline history of the world from the creation to the present time.
Fully illustrated with maps.
For the use of academies, high-schools, and families.
By John J. Anderson, A.M.
New York: Clark & Maynard. Pp. 401. 1869.
This compendium is in some respects inaccurate; much that is comparatively trivial is admitted, while really important events are entirely ignored; and on certain points there is, if not an actual anti-Catholic bias, an absence, at least, of that strict impartiality to be demanded, as of right, in all compilations intended for use as text-books in our public schools.
The Catholic Publication Society has now in press the Chevalier Rossi's famous work on the Roman Catacombs—Roma Sotterranea. It is being compiled, translated, and prepared for the English reading public by the Very Rev. J. Spencer Northcote, D.D., president of Oscott College, Birmingham, and author of a small treatise on the catacombs. The present work will make a large octavo volume of over five hundred pages, and will be copiously illustrated by wood-cuts and chromo-lithographs—the latter printed under De Rossi's personal supervision. This will be an important addition to our literature, and will, we doubt not, attract considerable attention in this country. The same Society will have ready about May 1st, Why People do not Believe—a library edition as well as a cheap edition; Glimpses of Pleasant Homes, by the author of Mother McCauley, with four full-page illustrations; Impressions of Spain, by Lady Herbert, with fifteen full-page illustrations. The two last-mentioned books will be very appropriate for college and school premiums. In Heaven we know Our Own will be ready in June. The Fourth Series of the Illustrated Catholic Sunday-School Library is also in preparation. The Life of Mother Margaret Mary Hallahan, O.S.D., founder of the Dominican Conventual Tertiaries in England, is announced, and will be ready in June or July.