The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-01-30
THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC QUARTERLY
REHLEW.

We have before us the first number of this
excellent Review, and it il with feelings of
peculiar pleasure that we welcome its timely
appearance upon the stage of American Iitera-
ture in this our Centennial year.
We look forward to its mission among us
with kind of prophetic instinct, hoping and
believing that it will prove pillar of fire" to
many who walk in the Egyptian darkness of
unbelief; and q luminous cloud" to others
who are weary of wandering in the deserts of
uncertainty, thus GROWING it's IaLors at the
close of Americas second Centennial by q
large share of that success which was promised
to Moses and given to Joshua TO accomplish.
The names of the distinguished contributors
whose writings adorn it's initial pages are in
themselves sufficient guarantee that the Re
view will afford rich fields of speculation for
the philosophic mind and rare flowers of piety
and erudition for the ascetic and the learned.
The clear and comprehensive title given to
the work reveals at once it's object and its
scope, while its elegantly written Salutstory
unfolds in classic Language the Importance of
the work laid ont before it, and the hopes and
fears with whichit enters upon its glorious
undertaking.
The article on Anti-Catholic Prejudice by the
Very Rev. James OConnor, D. d. abounds with
practical advice aud sound instruction. Alive
to the fact that even the best minds in the
country are tainted with unreasonable preju-
Dice the writer counsels prudence in the pub
! lie urging of any claims to which Catholics
| may justly think themselves entitled and he
sounds the note of alarm in regard to the cru
sade which the Church may expect in this
country if the policy outlined in Gen. Grant,
speech at Des Moines can find sufficient sup
porters. He suggests that every Catholic,
whether writing speaking to the public,
should bear in mind "that any fool can set the
house on fire ; but a wise man can not always
extinguish the 1ames."
| The dear old Doctor who 30 lately babe Us
farewell in BrornsoHS Quarterly RSrietO speaks
to MS again from the pages now under OIL
notice, and with all the olden strength and mar.
vellous erudition, leads us along the pathway
of " Tie Philosophy of the Supernatural" We
trust that the brightness of his genius will
continue to illumine long vista in the new
future opening before him in the pages of this
ReUic1C
The Classical Education of the Day." By
the Rt. Rev. 7. A. Becker, is an article whose
truth" according to the writer, "will cut In
many quarters deeply" but whose careful
study, with an application Of its suggestions
will be of vast Importance to those who have al
heart the welfare of our American youth.
An able article on "The Jesuits," by thu
Very Rev. James A. CorcoEan, needs only to bt
mentioned in connection with it's authors nam,
in order to arouse the interest of the Catholic
and the scholar.
The "Bugbear of Vaticanism" is one o
those magnificent articles which make reader
declare that one such is worth the full price O
the volume.
1t so clearly and elOquently defines tn,
doctrine of Tnfallibility that it compares favor
ably even with the late luminous writings o
Cardinal Manning or the elegant discussions o
? DIR. Newman on this Same subject.
f Scarcely is the mind recovered from th,