The Catholic Publication Society have purchased all the stereotype plates and book stock of Messrs. Lucas Brothers, Baltimore. Some of these books have been out of print for some years, or have not been kept constantly before the public. The society will soon issue new editions of all of them.
Messrs. Murphy & Co., Baltimore, have just issued an edition of Milner's End of Controversy, in paper covers, which is sold for seventy five cents a copy.
Mr. P. F. Cunningham, Philadelphia, will soon publish Catholic Doctrine, as defined by the Council of Trent, expounded in a series of conferences delivered in Geneva during the Jubilee of 1851, by Rev. Father Nampon, of the Society of Jesus; proposed as a means of reuniting all Christians. It will make an octavo volume of some 600 or 700 pages.
From Roberts Brothers, Boston:
Handy-volume Series. Realities of Irish Life.
Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.
By Louisa M. Alcott.
2 Vols. Illustrated.
Foreign Literary Notes.
The Abbé Sire, Superior of the Seminary of St. Sulpice, some time since undertook to procure the translation of the bull "Ineffabilis" into all the written languages of the world. In this vast enterprise he has made great progress, and more than a year ago his zeal received the honoring recognition of the holy father in a letter addressed to him, beginning: "Hinc gratissimum nobis accidit, Dilecte Fili, consilium a Te susceptum curandi, ut Apostoliae Nostrae de dogmatica Immaculati ejusdem Dei Genitricis Conceptus Definitione Litterae e latino idiomate in omnes converteretur linguas."
Catholic Ireland has made a handsome contribution to M. Sire's work in a volume published in Dublin, containing the Bull and its translation into the French, Latin, and Irish languages. The Irish translation is by the Rev. Patrick J. Bourke, President of St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, where, alone in all Ireland, under the auspices, and, we may say, the national enthusiasm of the Rt. Rev. Dr. McHale, the language of Ireland is taught, and endeavored to be preserved. We say endeavored; for it seems that, excepting among the hills of Connaught, the mother tongue of the Celtic race has died, or is rapidly dying out in the green island. Dr. Bourke's volume, published in Dublin, is a fine specimen of typography.