LEITH, Memoirs of Scottish Catholics; THOMPSON, St. Ignatius Loyola; PEGUES, Commentaire français et litéral de la Somme Théologique; CAR- MICHAEL, Francia's Masterpiece; POSSELT, Der Verfasser der Elihu Reden; Life of Christ for Children; Leading Events in the History of the Church; LAUSLOTS, Handbook of Canon Law; MOLITOR, Religiosi Juris Capita Selecta; O'NEILL, Blessed Mary of the Angels; O'HAGAN, Essays; SADLIER, Phileas Fox; BOYLE, St. Vincent de Paul and the Vincentians; KELLY, Some Great Catholics; GASQUET, Life of Mary Ward; etc. The Catholic University Bulletin. Vol. XVI. April, 1910. No. 4. "Let there be progress, therefore; a widespread and eager progress in every century and epoch, both of individuals and of the general body, of every Christian and of the whole Church, a progress in intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, but always within their natural limits, and without sacrifice of the identity of Catholic teaching, feeling and opinion."-ST. VINCENT OF LERINS, Commonit, c. 6. PUBLISHED BY THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA WASHINGTON, D. C. During the course of last summer, the announcement was made from a high academic eminence that the world is witnessing the birth of a new religion which is destined to bring within its fold all humane and intelligent persons the world over. That a new religion should shoot up, any day, in Massachusetts, the prolific mother of cults and culture, would not be thought in itself a more remarkable phenomenon than that an exemplary hen had, on any particular morning, during the busy season, laid another egg. But the national reputation of the precursor, the fact that the utterance contained a substratum of serious truth, however distorted in the presentation, the bland eloquence with which the beauties of the New Jerusalem were described, and, perhaps, the newspaper man's keen apprciation of the commercial value of the sensational, caused the glad tidings announced from the pulpit of the Harvard Theological Summer School to attract widespread attention. The topic threw into the background the five-foot library; it elicited opinion from everybody that was anybody; it held the centre of the stage till interest in religious discovery was eclipsed by the wild enthusiasms that, in the fall, broke out over the latest phase in Arctic exploration. With all the assurance, if not with all the zeal, of a Hebrew prophet, our seer described the origin and characteristics of the new religion which, he declared, is destined to a universal empire over all serious, educated and well-meaning persons. The |