The burning of the convent in Charlestown, and the accompanying horrors of that fearful night, are subjects worthy of a graphic description, well calculated to point a moral and adorn a tale. We confess our disappointment in this volume, written, no doubt, with a good design. The conversations are weak and pointless, and too much of the book is occupied with the irrelevant talk of the “conspirators.” We protest against the introduction of oaths into story-books. The interest of the story is marred by these faults.
Mr. P. Donahoe, Boston, announces as in press an account of the “Passion Play” at Oberammergau, Bavaria, from the pen of the Rev. George W. Doane, Chancellor of the Diocese of Newark. It will be dedicated to the Rt. Rev. J. R. Bayley, D.D., Bishop of Newark.
The Catholic Publication Society will publish, early in November, Mary, Queen of Scots, and her Latest Historian, by James F. Meline. This book will contain the articles which appeared in The Catholic World on Mr. Froude, as well as a great deal of new matter. In fact, the articles as they appeared in The Catholic World are almost entirely rewritten, and many new facts produced. It will be a complete refutation of Mr. Froude’s romance of history.
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Erratum.—In the article on “The Reformation not Conservative,” p. 733, 1st column, 16th line from the bottom, for French sovereigns read Frank sovereigns. Christendom was founded some centuries before there was a French sovereign or a French kingdom, in the modern sense of the word French, or France. The Franks were a Germanic race, and the German was their mother-tongue.
CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. XIV., No. 80.—NOVEMBER, 1871.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by Rev. I. T. Hecker, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.