The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-01-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Z The american Catholic Quarterly RerieU 70
January, 1877. Philadelphia: Hardy q
2 Mahony. New Orleans: C. D. Elder. London
Burns, Oates Sc Co.
Seven papers on the leading questions of tn
day make mp the contents of this truly splendid
Review for the fret quarter of The new year
A glance at the names and initials attached II
the various articles, brought with it at first
feeling of disappointment because of the ab
sence Of suoh silrer.pes writers 80 Thebaud
Marshall. and Formby; but in their stead W
find others as eloquent and IS learned.
."The Liberalistic View of the Public Schools
by the Rev. P. Bayms, 8. j., is mssterl.
analysis and refutation of Mr.. Francis E. Alb
bolts lecture on the '.pa6lic school question, ;
delivered in Boston Horticultural Hall, Feb
ruary, 1876, just week after the learned
Bishop McQoaid had spoken in the same
building, upon the rights and liberties of all
American citizens in the matter of education
One sees plainly that the true Christian and
true educator is very indignant with Mr.. Alb
| bots 'twaddle' and "masonio cheek; but
| this contemptuous anger of the writer does
| not prevent him from showing up the cunning
| falsehood and injustice of the lecturer and the
wisdom prudence, and charity of the church on
this vexed question of governmental educa-
ton.
The style is simply charming, for it lacks
none of the earnestness of Conversation, and
the reader feels if actually listening to the
reviewers swift and flashing words as they
uphold the claims of justice on the part of Ca
tholics, and denounce the goddess system of
education devised by the enemy of souls.
These words are ineisive:
I'VE maintain that if justice were done us,
Gath Wit fba of kba
fund to which We are entitled, would soon be
able not only to educate our childen in the
primary schools, bat also to found number
of high literary institutions, and perhaps even
q couple of magnificent universities."
However, the writer does not think this divi-
sion of the public school fund will ever be con-
sented to by Liberals, whilst, at the same time
he holds that there is q better solution, and o
more radical one for the public school question.
"Pantheistio Theories of the Soul" by Pro.
fessor F. A. Paley, Symbolism of the Cosmos,"
by Brother Azarias, and "Can the Inmate
riality, Spirituality and Immortality of the
Human Soul be Demonstrated :" by Rev. W.
N. Hill, s. j., are classical, profound and meta
physical articles, Astounding in elegant passages,
and furnishing suggestive ideas to the Christ
Ian az we'll as to the scholar.
GA Partisan Assault upon the Catholic
Church." by G. D. Wolff, is an article emf.
nently interesting to all American Catholics,
for it is an explanation and refutation of a
late singular pamphlet circulated by the onion
Republican Congressional Erecutire Committee,
Washington, d. c.
1t contains facts of Importance to all lovers
of truth, and is particularly appropriate to us
Louisianians in these days of fraud and gov
srnmental patronage.
To learn that there are at present fifty thou
sand official places under the control of the
Executive Department of the Federal Govern
meut, makes one realize the slow but sure
growth of bat Capitalization power, which even
Patrick Henry ominously foresaw in the past,
and ~hch z1ust inevitably destroy the free
institutions of this coGntry in no distant
future.
Fashions and Principles in Poetry" by NJ
F. s., is a good review of modern poetry in
general, and of Deirdre in particular. This
new poem of our day is now undergoing
shuttlecock process, now up, now down, as it
is praised by friends or belittled by foes. When
it shall rest at last on the broad field of litera-
ture, we will be better able to judge how it
looks in the sunlight of truth. In the mean
time, our Quarterly considers it grand poem,
"The Bismarck of the Eighteenth Century,"
by s. J. A, is we'll written and eloquent
defence of the Society of Jesus, not only at the
time of its suppression by the edict of Clement
XIV, but for all time and all places
We particularly notice the fine passage on
the constitution or nature of Conclaves, page
81, and as, in the course of nature, only few
more years must elspse before another Con-
oil 70 oh n forG
it would be we'll for Catholics as we'll as Pro-
testants to read these striking words in regard
to the action of this body
"Couclavee are subject to human passion, as
parliaments or congresses. and Cardinals have
affections and antipathies as strong as English
Ministers and American Secretaries The
Church is the Incarnation continued. She is
neither all divine nor all human, but divine
and human. Public events and private in
terests influence her human element, as they do
all human institutions. Oar Lord suffered and
died in his manhood f.; the Church suffers and
dies in the preiudices and passions of her hu-