We therefore welcome this volume very gratefully, and recommend it to our Catholic readers.
Announcements.—The Catholic Publication Society has in press, and will publish this fall, The Life of the Most Rev. M. J. Spalding, D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore, by Rev. J. L. Spalding, S.T.L. It will make a large 8vo volume of over 500 pages, and will be brought out in good style. Also in press, The Life and Doctrine of S. Catharine of Genoa; The Illustrated Catholic Family Almanac for 1874; and Good Things, a compilation from the Almanac for the last five years, making a handsomely illustrated presentation volume.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] 1 Cor. xiii. 1-3.
[2] We had intended to give a brief outline of what the church has done from time to time for the various forms of human want, but found we could not do so in the present article without departing from the diversified character essential to a magazine. Such a sketch of the efforts made by the church, during her long history, to alleviate physical suffering, and for the moral elevation of the race, would almost be a history of the church itself, inasmuch as the poor have always been her heritage, in accordance with our Lord’s words. To the Catholic reader this would have been unnecessary; and if this reference serves the purpose of inducing the candid non-Catholic to look into the record, a desirable end will have been accomplished.
[3] Constitution of U. S., Art. 1, of Amendments.
[4] Kent, ii. 24.
[5] Story on the Constitution, ii. 661.
[6] Report of Special Committee, p. 17.