Many saw their offspring spurning Every hope of earlier days, Many feared their sins had dyed them. Many mourned their loves departed, In their lonely shades they pined; Pined, but murmured not, nor said, "Would that we were also dead." Many learn'd to fade and languish Many fought with feud internal Child of sorrow, heir of sadness, Now no more a day of sorrow Never through these gates can enter In thy God shalt thou remain ; Hear'st thou that unearthly singing Oh! how little now will seem thee Go. He waits thee. Fall before Him, All the Kingdom hath is thine : LITERARY NOTICES. Father Lockhart's pamphlet on the Roman Question (London: Philp) has a value from one point of view, though of a kind exactly the reverse of what is intended by its amiable and accomplished author. It is not the least inconvenience of the indefinite prolongation of the temporary status quo in Italy, that it supplies a ready test for the use of the dominant party in the Roman Church to bully or cajole into subjection every one among their fellow Churchmen who dares to call his soul his own. There are very few who have the moral nerve to refuse, sooner or later, at least a nominal acceptance of their shibboleth. The present pamphlet is a case in point. We have far too high and sincere respect for the writer to have any desire to criticise in detail what is both intellectually and theologically unworthy of him, and is, indeed, a mere milk-and-water reproduction of the same extravagant theory Dr. Manning has familiarised us with usque ad nauseam in everything he has spoken or written-pastorals, pamphlets, speeches, sermons-for the last half-dozen years or more. When once Father Lockhart had unhappily consented to take a brief for the Ultramontane view of the subject, this was inevitable; that he should present it in a far less effective form than the Archbishop, was equally so, and is only to his credit. He has too much both of moderation and of Christian courtesy to indulge in the rabid denunciations and insolent dogmatism whereby its ordinary advocates supplement the weakness of their arguments. But a cause which has very little to be said for it in the way of reason cannot be forcibly maintained without the rough and ready weapons of dogmatism and anathema. It is very significant that a considerable portion of the essay (pp. 6-14), is taken up with establishing the spiritual claims of the Papacy-a subject in which the writer evidently felt more at his ease, but which is, of course, simply irrelevant in a discussion of the (purely political) "Temporal Sovereignty of the Pope." In fact, the pamphlet, like the Libyan eagle, carries in its bosom the implement of its own destruction. We are rightly told at the beginning that the temporal power grew up from "a concurrence of many circumstances manifesting the providential purposes of God, and expressing the will of the Roman populations." Exactly so. The Temporal Power was undoubtedly a providential institution, and the will of God was manifested through the will of the Roman-or rather Italian-populations. By precisely the same indications of providential purpose we gather now, that, in a wholly altered state of society, it is the will of God for that institution in its medieval shape to come to an end.* Nor will it avail to bring to the rescue that convenient abstraction-which Father Lockhart has borrowed from Dr. Manning-"the Catholic world." Without pausing to consider how large a proportion of the 170 million Roman Catholics would have first to be subtracted-twenty-four million Italians being a pretty good slice to begin with-it is quite sufficient to reply that everything which any part of the Ĉatholic world really cares about would be just as well secured by "Rome and a garden," or even "the Vatican and a garden,' as by the sovereignty of either the whole or the still remaining moiety of the Roman provinces. We are sorry to see Saul for the first time among the Ultramontane prophets, and the best wish we can form for him is a speedy return to better and more congenial company. A new an elegant edition of Sir Robert Grant's Poems have just been issued by Messrs. Longmans. The reputation of this pleasing writer having long ago been made, we need only call attention to the present publication, which contains the unmutilated and unaltered version of "Saviour, when in dust to Thee," far purer and better than those in which mistaken and unjustifiable changes have been made. Mrs. Cudlip's Tale, A Noble Aim (Masters), is extremely well told, by a writer at once graceful and refined." Dr. Neale's Sermon on Secession (Masters), contains one or two statements which we feel confident he would have altered and modified before its publication, had he been still with us in the flesh. For it is notoriously inaccurate to declare that all persons who become Roman Catholics are expected to believe everything that Father Faber wrote about the pains of Purgatory. Mr. Shipley's edition of The Mysteries of Mount Calvary, by Guevara (London: Rivingtons), is a publication of high value, being full of deep, thoughtful, and most pious reflections on the sufferings of our Lord. The translation is easy and good; the Preface interesting, and the whole book a valuable contribution to our increasing stock of devotional literature. Mr. Tupper, the gentleman who by several is regarded as a poet, has published a set of Hymns which first appeared in * The only real attempt at argument in the pamphlet is based on the cold reception given by the Romans to the Garibaldian raid of last autumn. But this argument is more than disposed of by the notorious fact that 15,000 Roman citizens (i. e., over five per cent. of the native population) are in exile, besides a large number of political prisoners. A despotic government knows in such cases how to select its victims. the Record and the Rock, under the title of Protestant Directorium, (London: Simpkins). They are only remarkable for their witless vulgarity. Most ably written, and attractive in style and argument, is a popular Lecture by the Rev. J. E. Vaux, entitled An Open Bible, (London: Palmer), which, being handsomely printed in a pamphlet of twenty pages and sold for a penny, ought to be circulated by thousands. A Priest of the Diocese of Exeter has published a reprint of a French Essay, by M. Auguste Nicolas, on Ritualism, (Hayes). Full of sound philosophy and good Church teaching, it will no doubt prove both attractive and useful to really thoughtful persons of the upper and educated classes. Mr. John Peat's Sermons on the Beatitudes, (Rivingtons), are exceedingly superficial and commonplace, though no doubt well intended. Sermons on Subjects of the Day, (Dublin: Grafton), preached at the recent R. C. Council of Baltimore, though unequal in power and interest, are nevertheless a valuable contribution to the history of that Church in America, and will be acceptable to many Anglicans here. Mr. Bennett's series, issued by Hayes, entitled The Church's Broken Unity, progresses very favourably. The new volume, on Wesleyanism and the Swedenborgians, is not the least interesting of those published. We know no series in which so considerable an amount of practical information is supplied in so small a compass, regarding those religious sects which exist around us, and concerning which so many otherwise well-informed people know simply nothing. For Parochial and Lending Libraries, this series will prove most acceptable. We earnestly hope that the offensive and ugly nick-name of "Romanism" will be changed for Roman Catholicism, in Part IV. To the list of Messrs. Parker's useful shilling reprints of the works of Standard English Divines, have to be added Bishop Taylor's Holy Living and Holy Dying, which need no commendation from us. The Canons of the First Four Councils, in Greek and English, (London: Parker), is a very valuable publication. We trust that the Bishops who assembled at Lambeth will henceforth frame their lives and conduct after the principles contained in them. Then may we hope for blessed days now, and Corporate Re-union eventually. Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne, the younger, has published a very clever pamphlet, The Church Association, (London: Hayes), which deals with the principles and tactics of that organization |