New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-19
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD.

THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
To Protestant readers, and to many who are ho'
Protestants the most striking article III me Ce"c
World for Nav will lie q short. and III many respects
very incomplete paper by Mr.. Hugh T. Mcbrn'le
on Count Joseph dc Maistre. In our country tii'
distinguished writer is best known by his work Oh
the Papacy, a staunch defence OF CliramOhtahls'h'
more read and more discussed perhaps before the
Vatican Council than it is now but in France his
purely political essays have always had
and have STILL much greater impor-
tanoe. IL is interesting To observe what 80
strenuous a Catholic periodical as the magazine
now before Ills has To say OF one who has been in"hc
upon ~ y leader in the French Catholic party; Al
the head of the rcactionsts and as their cihrI cN-
ponent in expression MaiStrc must be ranked. l"'
voice. though hushcd for sixty years Is stu All
powerful in the camp of absolutiSn liz Il P"""u
ON all occasions by Lecimsts and II Is hcid 10 ne
almost hercsy, in certain French circles to doubt
his wisdom. The spirit of that school Is PROB
ably expressed in single sentence by MN :
Against our legitimate Sovereign, were he Nero,
we have no other right than to allow our heads to
be cnt of while respectfully asserting the truth
demonstrations sur la FIance.' When he will not
allow a system of representation, or written char
Ter of any kind, To protect the people against the
encroachmcnts of tyranny. to be aught hut an evil
he would thus at one stroke, take from them The
last remedy of an oppressed people
The hostile attitude OF the present French Repnb-
lie TO the Catholic Church. while altogether unpar-
donahle has been. il is likely. aggravated by the
loud and active section who follow Mastrc's teach
ings IL they had not prevented large body ol
Catholic mOdeTates sincerely joining the ne
publican party, the triumph of the Radical
faction might perhaps never have taken
place queer position is this for the followers of
lao fl. "A
BETA! How much better would il not have been IT.,
instead of holding 10 obsolete issues and dreaming
OF a return of utopian arstOcracy, those who ought
IN I've the real leaders of the French people had
thrown their talents and energy into the moderate
government of MacMahon, honestly! Instead OF
which there was on their part, soon as they
thought the coast clear, effort to place over the
French people again line of kings they abhorcd.
At all events the suspicion of such apurpose wreokc
MacMahOn's administration, the body OF tile people
standing uncertain and irrcsonte, the only option
seeming TO he between religion and monarchy ON one
hand or irrcligon and republicanlsn on liz, other
aud in this interval the victory of the Radicals
II is not unreasonable perhaps, To aSNcrt that the
only way for France out of this dlemnais To shake
oil the influence of Maistrr and his school. True chill
drcn of the Church may bc true Republicans. There
is nothing in the Catholic Church TO teach men
otherwise. The advocate Of an absolute cgl;linat"
monarchy may he Catholic it is true; but, on the
other hand, the spirit of the Char h. If ever III
voked in politics has always been the side OF hui
mainly"
Among the other articles in The Catholic Uord Ne
find continuation of Father llcwits admirable syn
op,is and translation of VI. Fouards leof Christ ";
a biographical sketch Of AN American Catho-
lie Poet" namely, the late G'Oigc H. Miles by Eu-
gene l.. Ddicr; a paper Oh " Irish Settlements IN
Illinois," by William j. Onahan; an account iy the
late Lady Blanche Murphy Of " The Greek MouaS-
ferries on Mount Athos :; reviews OF TroiioicN Late
OF Cicero, and of recent publications. by the Smith
soniam Institution on American Ethnolcgy an al
ticle by the Rev. George ". Srarlc on so niihc
Dcgnati,m !" and 4 striking picture of the injustice
and cruelty OF the Irish Land laws under The itic
OF May-T on tine Galtees' Nh. Aubrey DE
We're begins a metTical version of The Children of
Liz" one oil the most ancient OF the lrIsh heroic &C.
gends.