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information. Mr. Curzon's book is most interesting, and will find, in its present shape, many new readers and admirers.

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Family Expenditure, (London: Hayes,) is an account-book designed to assist the uninitiated of the heads" of families in duly recording, week by week, under appropriate headings, all expenses, whether of "the house" or "the family;" and in easily balancing the same quarterly and annually. The marked feature of the book is, that these facts may, by the simplest means and the fewest possible entries, be most clearly kept, with the view of contrasting the said annual expenditure over a period of twenty

years.

The author of The Boy Martyr," and other tales, is a very pleasant writer of children's stories, always displaying sound learning and a thoroughly Catholic tone. In Oswald, the Young Artist, (London: Hayes,) he gives us a new tale for boys, which is calculated to be specially attractive and unquestionably popular. Well planned, with a very good plot, abounding in capital descriptions, the whole teaching and principles of the book are of a far higher character than is usual in such productions, while the interest of the story is well kept up until the last page. We not only recommend the volume as one of the best we have read, but trust its author will continue his efficient labours in this particularly important department of popular literature. This tale is admirably printed, strongly bound, and published at a really cheap price.

We can faithfully pronounce Ugolino and other Poems (London: Newby) to be decidedly superior to the general run of such productions. There is a delicacy of feeling, a choice of language and a depth of thought, which give promise of even better and more finished works than those contained in this volume. We remark, however, that the author has not yet fixed upon a settled style, and that some of the verses would have been improved by a greater amount of care and polish being bestowed upon them. The religious poems at the end of the book are very superior to the others, and make us wish that the writer would ever select themes of this nature for subjectmatter. "To My Mother," and "Rest With Us," are very beautiful poems; while the descriptions in "The Pass of the S. Gothard" are clever and life-like.

We welcome, with unfeigned satisfaction, Libri Precum Publicarum Ecclesia Anglicana Versio Latina, (London: Rivingtons.) Founded on a true, rational and intelligible principle, translated with singular success and printed very fairly-though not so well as the Hora Diurna and other works of the Mechlin press-this important volume will effect untold good in promoting an accurate judgment concerning, and a kindly feeling for our beloved national Church on the part of foreign Catholics. We cannot sufficiently thank the learned editors for their valuable

work. All members of the A. P. U. C. who have friends abroad in. Roman Catholic countries would do well to send copies for the enlightenment of our foreign fellow-Christians and to disseminate this book as widely as possible. We learn with no surprise that the mischievous and pestilential Anglo-Continental Society is about to issue another version for distribution amongst the Gavazzis, De Sanctis and other Italian renegadesto whom, of course the Anglican Prayer Book, faithfully translated, would be as offensive as their former Bible or Breviary. Dr. Harold Browne, who is opposed to S. Paul upon the fact of Christians possessing an altar, is reported to be in favour of this new Protestant version.

Mr. Sadler's Church Doctrine, Bible Truth (London: Bell and Daldy,) is a volume sui generis. It occupies ground, which in a manual of this size has never been taken up. Dealing in a systematic and dogmatic manner with the various doctrines of the Church, it sets forth their rationale and true bearing on each other with singular power and unquestionable success. Neither superficial, slipshod, nor Protestant, it supplies in a most satisfactory manner a want long felt, and is admirably adapted for the instruction of intelligent lay people of the middle classes, who naturally and generally ignorant on such matters as are here discussed, appear ready to investigate for themselves the true and ancient system of the Church universal.

Fragments from the Life of a Motherless Child, (London: Masters,) though containing nothing very striking is written in a pleasing style, and will be valuable for the steady and faithful inculcation of accurate ideas and true principles evidenced in every page. Though the plot of the sketch is of the slightest character, a well sustained interest is apparent throughout.

The Miracle at Metz Wrought by the Blessed Sacrament (London Thomas) is an account, translated from the French, by Lady G. Fullerton, and bearing the imprimatur of the Archbishop of Westminster and the Bishop of Metz, of a most remarkable miracle which was wrought so lately as June 14th of the present year, upon a girl suffering from muscular and atrophical paralysis. Our readers should procure the tract which is published for a penny.

Hymns (with Tunes) for the Christian Seasons, chiefly composed by C. E. Willing, organist and choirmaster of All Saints', Margaret Street, (London: Cramer & Co.; Hayes.) Any work from such a quarter is sure to be interesting and valuable, and we can strongly recommend this book to those of the clergy who desire special hymns and music adapted to the different seasons. would suggest to Mr. Willing that he might advantageously extend his labours, and give us a perfect collection for the whole year. We are sure it would supply an acknowledged want, and speedily become an authority.

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The reprint of the little Tract, "Roman Catholic Principles in reference to God and the King," under the head of The Catholic Eirenicon in Friendly Response to Dr. Pusey, (London: Hayes, Lyall Place,) is a most welcome surprise to us. We had always been of opinion that the principles of late years advocated in the Dublin Review were of comparatively very recent growth amongst our Roman Catholic brethren in this country. But we had no conception that a little tract like this, made up of propositions so unusually moderate in their theological aspect, and so loyal and conservative in their political, should have served as a text-book for commentaries by Roman Catholic divines in England and Ireland of acknowledged orthodoxy, for so many generations down to the Rev. J. Waterworth, who is still alive to represent and answer for them. In short, this little tract has a wonderful history of its own, which the editor has evidently been at some pains to unravel, and deserves to be widely circulated and thought upon just now. "It stands out," in his own words, as a landmark" in the annals of English Catholicism; and must for ever be associated with Catholic emancipation, for which it pleaded so successfully with Mr. Pitt. Its editor seems clearly to think, that should any new school succeed in setting aside these principles which were then pleaded for it, and substituting others of a more intolerant or ultramontane cast, as a rule of action amongst his co-religionists, honesty should at least oblige them to be candid with their countrymen, and say-" We have abandoned those principles on which Catholic emancipation was conceded to us: it is for you to say whether our new principles are compatible with the full citizenship which we now enjoy, or whether they should involve the re-imposition of our former disabilities."

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DR. PUSEY AND MR. GURNEY.-We enter our most emphatic protest against the preposterous position which Mr. Archer Gurney has thought fit to take up with regard to Dr. Pusey's Eirenicon. Without in any way disparaging Mr. Gurney's pamphlet Restoration, and some of his writings, we cannot but observe how strangely and wildly he has overrated his own importance. What gives him, we should like to know, a supposed right to speak on any one's behalf but his own? Who follows the modest Mr. Gurney? What single "divine," worthy of the name, could give avowed support to the quaint terminology and novel theological propositions of several of his peculiar hobbies and personal crotchets? Without undertaking to enter into controversy with him upon points which the Universal Church has long ago settled, we must express our deliberate opinion, that we have seldom read anything in more wretched taste, or more painfully impertinent both in language and assumption, than his various attacks upon the most learned and revered English theologian of the present century which have been foisted on the newspapers. Putting wholly aside the

question of whether Re-union with Rome is desirable, or whether the outline of such a concordat as Dr. Pusey has set forth be such as the English Church and nation would accept, we are simply astonished at Mr. Gurney's unblushing presumption. Had he spoken for himself alone, his exaggerated statements would have remained unnoticed. Having presumed to speak for Catholics-we, too, take the liberty of speaking also, and of speaking in language which cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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**We are requested by " Scrutator" to state that, in his opinion, the two following statements in our article on "The Recent Triumph at Oxford," are not borne out by anything that he has written :-(1,) "We are not prepared, like Scrutator,' to enact the Boy Jones by spying into Mr. Hardy's private life and conversation." (2,) "One of the ill-natured scandals which 'Scrutator' laboured to spread, viz., that Mr. Hardy was an opponent of the Duke of Buccleuch's Scottish Disabilities Removal Bill."

ART. VI.-1. Missale Scoticanum e prelo de Pitsligo. 4to, 1864.

2. The Catholic Directory for Scotland for 1866. London: Brown, 1866.

3. Breviarium Aberdonensis. [Reprint.]

4. Directorium Scoticanum, [edited by the late Rev. W. WRIGHT, LL.D.] London: Masters.

5. An Account of the Opening of S. Patrick's Church, Edinburgh, with the Discourses delivered on that occasion, by the Right Rev. Bishop GILLIS and the Rev. W. SMITH. Edinburgh: Marsh & Beattie, 1856. 6. The Seal of the Lord, a Catechism of Confirmation, by Bishop FORBES. London: Masters.

7. A Lecture on Education, by the Right Rev. Bishop GILLIS. Edinburgh: Marsh & Beattie, 1856.

8. The Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church of Scotland, [approved by Bishop TORRY.] Edinburgh: Lendrum.

9. The Missal for the Laity.

Beattie, 1836.

Edinburgh: Marsh &

10. Twenty-seventh Report of the Scottish Episcopal Church Society. Edinburgh, 1865.

11. S. Matthew an Example for the Church of Scotland. By the BISHOP OF S. ANDREW's. Burntisland. 12. Canons of the Episcopal Church of Scotland. Edinburgh Grant, 1863.

13. The Office for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, etc., according to the use of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. By the Rev. J. SKINNER. Aberdeen: Chalmers, 1807. 14. Address on Baptismal Regeneration, by Bishop JOLLY. Aberdeen Brown, 1826.

15. Letter to the Congregation of S. John's, Aberdeen, by the Rev. P. CHEYNE. Aberdeen: Brown, 1852. 16. Six Sermons on the Most Holy Eucharist, by the Rev. P. CHEYNE, Aberdeen: Brown, 1852.

17. Reasons of Appeal against the Judgment of Bishop Suther, Aug. 5th, 1858. By the Rev. P. CHEYNE. Aberdeen Brown, 1858.

18. Reasons of Appeal against the second Judgment of Bishop Suther, 26th and 27th May, 1859. By Rev. P. CHEYNE. Aberdeen: Brown, 1859.

19. Considerations on a late Pastoral Letter on the Doctrine of the Holy Eucharist, by Rev. J. KEBLE. Edinburgh: Lendrum, 1858.

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