New-York tribune., 1909-08-14

THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA An Interna-
poctrine. Discipline and History Of the Catholic
church. Edited by Charles G. HeTbermann, Ed
PaIen. Pale John ] wynne. assisted BY numerous
ollabOTatoTs. In fifteen volumes Vol v DOC
Faith. 4to, pp. xv 7sS. Robert Appleton COM
pany.
The Catholic Encyclopedia holds on its way
with the excellence Of quality that its friends
foretold The Robert Appleton Company is
prompt with the delivery Of the fifth volume
CDioc- FAITH, and third Of the series is thereby
completed. In the volume now al hand some
important ethical social questions get cOnsidera-
ton Divorce takes double artrie dealing with
the difficulty in the light Of moral theology and
of civil jurisprudence. The essay on "Educa-
ton" by Professor e A. Pace, reviews ancient
theories and methods and expounds the aim Of
Christian education with reference TO the edu-
cational activities OF the Church. As might be
expected in a work Of this scope historical and
biographical topics have the pre-eminence-
Forty double-page columns are allotted 10 Eng
land. Father Thurston writing OF the period be
fore the Reformation and Mr.. w. 5. Lilly on the
period after The essay on English Literature"
is done by Miss Kate Mary Warren. lecturer on
this subject under the University of London at
Westield College, Hampstead. Catholic writers
are no longer lacking freedom in the arena OF
literature and Miss Warren more than a
promise that when the history of the twentieth
century comes 10 be written many Catholic
names will be found in the highest places on the
roll Of honor
Dr Adrian Fortescue writes on the Eastern
churches. and clears the ground with useful
distinction: a Western Church is one originally
dependent on Rome. whose traditions are Latin;
an Eastern Church looks rather 10 Constantine
pie (either as a friend enemy and inherits
Greek ideas A division of the Eastern churches
is made into the great, schismatical Orthodox
Church, those formed by the HISTORIAN and
Monophysite heresies. and lastly the Unat
churches, corresponding in each case To a schis-
matical body While fondly hoping that the
East may become Catholic again. DR. Thurston
is certain that it will never be. what IT never
has been. Latin The idea of latinizing all East
ern Catholics is. he says. diametrically opposed
10 antiquity, 70 the Catholic system Of organiza-
ton and TO the policy of all pOpes.
Among the many admirable minor biographies
is a sketch by Miss Louise Imogen Quincy of the
English Jesuit. Edmund Campion. whose win
some traits are all brought home 10 us. The
circumstances OF the Blessed Edmund's execu-
tion might with advantage, have been voiced in
q lower key Historians Of all schools. Miss
Quincy tells us. are agreed that the charges
against Campion We're wholesale sham, and she
has no recognition ior the TACT that IN those
troubled times the issue that loyalty 20 the
Pope meant disloyalty to the Queen Of England.
The deliberate judgment OF Halam that in
Elizabeth's reign any man might have saved
his life by denying the Pope's power TO depose
the Queen, and Hume's statement about Cam
pion is that he was detected in reasonable prac-
tices and confessed his guilt.
AS In the earlier volumes there is a pleasing
arrangement OF illustrations. Besides colored
plate reproductions Of D1rer's -Four Apostles"
and Raphael's THE Espousals OF the Virgin
Mary" there are over twenty full page haiftone
engravings with subjects including the vale Of
Glendalough and the cathedrals Of Durham
Exeter and Ely.