New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-30

rators. In fifteen volumes. Illustrated
Volume XI. New Mex.-Phil. Alto, PIP.
XIV 100. Robert Appleton Company.
The full attention accorded to matters
American in their relation to Catholic
faith and practice, as exemplified in the
articles New York, Ohio Oregon and
Pennsylvania in the present volume, IS
an attention properly bestowed when
ii is remembered that the Catholic En-
cyclopada owes its initiation and it's Sc
cure progress to the industry Of scholars
and supporters in the United States. In
the cause of education the work Of Cath
Ole publishers in New York dates from
the arrival in 1903 of Bernard Dornin,
an exile from Ireland, whose edition, in
1907, Of Pastorini's History OF the
Christian Church" found 31S city sub
scribers. Under Periodical Literature
are articles dealing with the Catholic
press Of several countries. That on the
United States traces the course Of
Church journalism from the issue at De-
troit, in 1908, of Father Gabriel Rich
ards 1.-THE Michigan Essay; or, Impartial
Observer" There are now published in
this country 13 Catholic newspapers. and
321 periodicals In all.
The philosophical essays include the
topics Optimism, Panpsychism, Panthe-.
ism and Pessimism In the Biblical field,
besides several minor studies there Is a
survey Of Pauline theology and an intro
duction to the Epistle to Philemon. In
| fourteen pages the Pentateuch Is treated
to discussion whose findings come well
within the limits imposed by the decree
OF the Biblical commission of June p,
! 1906, delverance which may be said
! to have applied the closure TO scientific
inquiry by declaring the Pentateuch to
be substantially of Mosaic authorship.
The article does not fail to show that
the Papal decree itself has been varl-
ously Interpreted by Catholic scholars.
Vetter placed the first reduction of the
Pentateuch In the time Of the erection
of Solomon's Temple and its last redac-
ton in the time Of Esdras; but Vetter
died in 1906, the year in which the Bibll-
cal commission announced the above de-
| ton, says the encyclopedia, whether
and how the scholar would have modi-
fled his theory if time had been granted
| him to do so. DR.. J. +. Driscoll's arti-
Gle on the Pharisees, while conserving
the traits that go to make up the con-
ventional portrait, is ready with a kind
word for that punctilious If not amia-
BILE sect, and describes their pedagogical
| influence as an important factor in train
ing the national will and purpose for tie
/ introduction of Christianity
A history in outline of religious paint
ing during the last nine hundred years
| is divided by Louis Gillet into five
| periods. that of the Catacombs, the
| Byzantine, in the west to the sixteenth
century, the Cirque Cento and the later
schools, the modern, nineteenth century
period. Touching on the impoverish-
ment Of religious art in our day. NJ. Gil
| let finds explanations, not in a diminu-
tion Of the Christian sentiment but in
the fact that religious art has become
an industry and concurrence is no longer
|
dealers; but the chief reason, as was
pointed out by the painter John La
Fargo, lies in the very evolution of re-
| ligious ideas which now seeks a new
form. The sketch Of the career Of An
drea Palladio by Mr.. Ralph Adams Cram
| is one Of the brief biographies in which
the encyclopedia abounds, and Origen.
Pelagius and st. Patrick are of the
greater lights. A literal translation IL
given from the old Irish text OF the
saints beautiful hymn, THE Breast
plate" Pascal takes three columns
DR.. James j. Walsh's account of Louis
Pasteur closes with an allusion to the
simplicity Of the savants faith. He
died with his rosary in his hand. after
listening to the life of ST Vincent de
Paul, which he had asked to have read
to him because he thought that his
work, like that Of St. Vincent, would do
much TO save suffering children