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Those who lay violent hands upon God's Word, 344; Object of the Ebionites in trans-

lating the Scriptures, 345; Their Anglican Apologist, 346; Authorized translations

in the early ages, 347; Why translations were not abundant in the Middle Ages, 348;

Zealous biblical scholars of those times, 350; Number of vernacular versions then

produced, 352: What has become of them, 353; The destruction of books the work

of ruffians, 355; Mistranslation of the Bible never known in the Christian Church,

356; Luther, the founder of the Modern school of mistranslation, 357; His perver-

sions of texts, 358 et seq.; The Christian world indignant at his scriptural work. 364;

Luther justifying his own conduct, 367; More specimens of the Reformer's style,

368; Character of the English Protestant translations, 369.

RELIGION AND CULTURE. By Rt. Rev. J. L. Spalding, D.D.,

Our good qualities are acquired, 389; Meaning of the word culture, 390; Abuses of

education, 391; The sphere of culture, 392; Puritan character pervading our liter-

ature, 393; The preparations for a higher culture have been made by Americaus, 391;

The new paganism called culture, 396; All heroic conduct springs from the con-

fidence which comes of faith, 397; Various views on the subject, 398; What men of

culture can do for the world, 399; The subject considered apart from the aspect of

religious faith and morality, 401; Culture akin to poetry, life mostly prose, 402;

Relation of the Catholic Church to culture, 404; Mr. Arnold's culturism not original,

406; One may be a lover of culture and a Christian at the same time, 409; Self-con-

stituted apostles of culture, 412; What Catholics can do and should do for culture, 413.

THE PRESENT POLITICAL CONDITION OF IRELAND.

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Recent ominous expansion of socialism, 431; The social system intimately connected

with politics, 433; The various stages through which human society has passed, 433;

Change effected by Christianity, 434; Socialism totally unknown before the French

Revolution, 436; What the world now means by liberty and freedom, 437; The

principle of equality, 438; Those who adopted the principles of the Revolution, 439;

What they meant by fraternity, 440; The Revolutionists' hatred of religion, 440:

Babeuf's social code, 441; The hold they took on the world, 443; There is a social

science which has not broken loose from Christianity, 444; The new outbreak

fatally opportune, 445; Saint-Simonism, 447; Fourier's system, 448; It has passed

away, 451; Socialism in the United States, 452; Condition of affairs in Europe in the

Middle Ages, 453; Why the difference of condition between ancient and modern

times, 454; A remedy proposed for modern evils, 455.

A REVIEW OF THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By

M. M.,

The writer's reason for choosing a ground often trodden before, 456; Effects of the

dispersion of the human race and of climate upon the mind, 457; The ancient

Britons and the Roman invasion, 458; Change effected by the Saxons, 459; Their

conversion and first acquaintance with letters, 460; King Alfred and the foundation

of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, 461; The Norman Conquest, 462; Who

cultivated literature in the Middle Ages, 464; The transition state of England,

465; The period of foundation of the great universities, 466; Amalgamation of the

Norman and Saxon races, 467; The Father of English literature, 468; Birth of

Scottish poetry, 470; The war of the Roses and what followed, 471; Beginning of

the modern history of England, 471; Sir Thomas More, 472; Critical cultivation of the

language begun, 474; The Elizabethan era, 475; Shakespeare, 477; Writers of the

seventeenth century, 478; Milton and his contemporaries, 480; Dryden, 481; Pope

and others, 482; The writers of the eighteenth century, 483: The second golden age

of English literature. 485; A retrospective review of what has been said, 487; Con-

temporary writers, 488.

ENGLISH DEVOTION TO OUR BLESSED LADY IN THE OLDEN TIME. By

Rev. H. J. Coleridge, S. J., .

Example set to America by Old England, 490; What remains of the England of the

Ages of Faith, 491; Mr. Waterton's devotion and researches, 492; The Religious

Orders of the Middle Ages, 493; The manner in which this devotion manifested

itself, 495; Shrines and devotions, 496; Pilgrimages, 498; Devotion to the Blessed

Virgin at Oxford, 500; The old prayers and forms of devotion to our Blessed Lady,

501; Old hymns in her honor, 503; Concluding remarks, 505.

NEWSPAPERS AND NOVELS. By A. de G., . .

A false conclusion often drawn, 506: Intellectual activity of the present day combined

with lassitude of thought, 507; The theory that "knowledge is power" exemplified

in the newspaper press, 508; Carelessness in selecting what to read, 509; Different kinds

of newspapers, 510; Causes of the circulation of cheap and bad newspapers, 512; Has

the press done more evil than good? 513; Novels and who read them, 513; Novels

viewed from different points, 515; Who and what is the average novelist, 516; The

same rules applied to newspaper men, 517; Conclusions drawn from the foregoing

considerations, 518.

BEZA AS A TRANSLATOR; HIS PERVERSIONS OF THE WORD OF GOD.

By Very Rev. James A. Corcoran, D.D.,. '.

Luther's many imitators in the treatment of the Scriptures, 521 ; Theodore Beza one

of the principal among them, 522; His private character, 523; His life as free as his

verses, 524; How his young manhood was spent at Paris, 526; Flight to Geneva, 527;

What has made his fame, 528; How the sense of the Bible may be explained or

distorted, 529; Some specimens of his deliberate falsifications of the Bible, 530; The

"Reformer's" idea of individual merit and free will, 531; Calvin's doctrines, 532;

Teaching of the Catholic Church on these points, 534; The difficulties with which

Beza met, 535; How he overcame some of them, 536; The doctrines of Redemption,

539; Some of his purposes, 541; The outside motive of Beza's doctrines, 543: His idea

of justice, 545; No end to his wilful perversions, 546; Why Catholics reverence divine

tradition, 548.

MODERN AND ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY COMPARED. By Rev. J. Ming, S. J., 605

Return of Catholic Philosophy to the scholastic system, 605; In what Modern Phi-

losophy consists and results, 606; Idealists and their forerunners, 607; The steps

made by Kant, 608; His conclusions, 610; Fichte and his school, 613; In what his

theory consists, 614; Development of his system, 615; Schelling, and what he taught,

616; His two series of development, 617; His theory of the absolute, 618; Last stage

of his speculations, 619; How his philosophy was regarded, 620; Hegel's Idealism,

621; His ideas of morality and religion, 623; Bringing these to their last develop-

ment, 625; Attacked by Schoppenhauer and others, 626; Why it is useless to criticize

these systems, 627.

DE LA SALLE: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By M. O'R.,.

Social position of the De la Salle family, 628; Birth and education of the founder of

the Brothers of the Christian Schools, 629; He loses his parents, 630; Devotedness to

his favorite studies, 630; Determined to devote himself to the welfare of his neighbors,

631; He founds his Order, 632; In spite of difficulties he becomes the champion of

popular education, 633; What he has done for the diffusion of knowledge, 634;

Establishing a training school for teachers, 635; His work appreciated by the

Government, 636; De la Salle eminent both for piety and learning, 637; His struggle

with the Jansenists, 638; Progress of his work down to the Revolution, 639; Table

showing the success of the Brothers of the Christian Schools as teachers, 640; Testi-

mony of Guizot and Thiers, 641; Table of qualifying examinations for the University,

642; The ordeal through which the Brothers are now passing in France, 643.

RECENT PROGRESS IN STELLAR PHYSICS. By Rev. J. M. Degni, S. J.,

Astronomy leading the onward march of progress, 645; Use of the Spectroscope in

this science, 647; Researches of Father Secchi and Prof. Lockyer, 648; Spectra of

the various stellar types, 649; How the Spectroscope conveys a knowledge of the

heavens, 650; What we have learned of the sun through it, 651; Progress of stellar

chemistry, 653; Janssen and Lockyer observing the sun's prominences in full sun-

shine, 654; Further observations by their method, 655; Displacement of lines in the

spectrum of the solar spots, 656; Doppler's principle, 657; Deductions regarding the

nucleus of the sun, 658; Solution of questions regarding the stellar spectra, 659;

Secchi's explanation of the stellar types, 660; Temperature of the stars, 661; Angular

displacement of many fixed stars, 661; Velocity of the stars and other questions solved,

662; Spectroscopic observations on the variable stars, 663; Importance of the work

accomplished by the Spectroscope, 663.

THE MORMONS. By Gen. John Gibbon, U. S. A.,

First acquaintance with Mormonism, 664; Leaving Utah to take part in the Civil

War, 665; An instance illustrating the moral tone of the Mormon community, 666;

Bargaining with a Mormon horse thief, 668; Receiving news of the battle of Bull

Run, 669 Resuming rambles in the Rocky Mountains, and renewing the acquain-

tance of Mormonism, 670; Establishing Camp Douglass, 671; Character of Salt Lake

and the streams that flow into it, 672; A Mormon as a citizen of the United States,

673; Brigham Young's influence, 674; An acquaintance in Cottonwood Cañon, 675;

Ignorance characteristic of the Mormons, 676; The Mountain Meadow Massacre,

677; Workings of Government in Utah, 678; Death of Brigham Young, 679.

THE INTERNAL CONDITION OF RUSSIA. By A. de G., .

Interest awakened by the Nihilist movement, 680; Influence of Russia on Europe,

681; Last Russo-Turkish war, 681; Origin of the present discontent in Russia, 682;

The army under the surveillance of the police, 683; Number and social composition

of the Revolutionists, 684; Grim reality of the grievances of Russian society, 685;

Present condition of Russia examined, 686; The Russo-Greek Church, 687; What

Peter the Great and Catharine II. did, 688; Russian ideas on women and children.689;

How despotism has remained in Russia, 690; The Russians of to-day not so badly

instructed, 691; A Nihilist Constitution, 692; Present condition of Russia explained,

692; History of Russia a warning to so-called Christian peoples, 693.

CARDINAL POLE. By Rev. M. J. McLoughlin,

Cardinal Pole's place in history, 694; His birth and family, 695; He is sent to Padua,

696; His first relations with Henry VIII, 697; Selected by Henry for the See of York,

699; He refuses, and the King's anger in consequence, 700; Patronized by Vittoria

Colonna, 701; Declaration of the Royal supremacy, 702; Pole's absence from England

no assurance against persecution, 703; A book which subjects him to the cruelest

persecution by Henry, 704; His personal safety endangered, 705 ; Pole's influence on

the Catholic world of that day, 706; His career as a Legate, 707; Council of Trent

called, 709; What he did at the accession of Edward VI. 711; Marriage of Mary

Tudor to Philip of Spain, 712; How the union was accepted in England, 713; Cardi-

nal Pole and Queen Mary, 714; How he spent the last years of his life, 715; His

character as an administrator, 716: Misunderstood by the good, 717; He was morally

rather than mentally a great man, 718.

THE RECENT ENCYCLICAL LETTER OF POPE LEO XIII. By Very Rev.

James A. Corcoran, D.D.,

On the necessity of reinstating the Christian philosophy of St. Thomas in Catholic

schools, 719; Latin text of the Encyclical, 733; English translation, 745.

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