Make Ireland a field of profitable labor; reconstruct the land laws and the land courts; coerce the landlords; protect the tenants; protect and encourage the fishermen, and develop the fisheries; resuscitate Irish industry and trade; abolish Castle rule; RESTORE SELF-GOVERNMENT TO IRELAND. PREPARATION FOR DEATH; OR CONSIDERATIONS ON THE ETERNAL TRUTHS, USEFUL FOR ALL AS MEDITATIONS, AND SERVICEABLE TO PRIESTS FOR SERMONS. (Maxims of Eternity-Rule of Life.) By St. Alphonsus de Liguori, Doctor of the Church. Edited by Rev. Eugene Grimm, Priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. New York, Cincinnati, and St. Louis: Benziger Brothers. 1886. This is the first volume of the "Centennial Edition" of the works of St. Alphonsus, "a new and only complete" edition of the ascetical and dogmatical treatises. The works of the Saint relating to "Moral Theology," and written by him in Latin, will remain untranslated. As regards the arrangement of matter, this English edition is based on the French translation from the Italian of Fathers Leopold Dujardin and Jules Jacques, of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, published in twenty-seven volumes. The aim of this work is two-fold: First, it is intended for the use of all persons who desire to establish themselves in virtue and to advance in spiritual life. Secondly, it furnishes a collection of matter suitable for sermons at missions and the spiritual exercises. To render it more useful for seculars, the several considerations are each divided into three points. Each point serves as one meditation, and to each of these are annexed "affections and prayers." To render the considerations more useful to preachers having but few books and little time for reading texts of Scripture and passages from the Fathers, brief, but strong and animated, maxims are added. Appended to the work is "A Christian's Rule of Life." In view of the high place which St. Alphonsus' writings occupy in the estimation of holy doctors and theologians of the Church, and of the emphatic approvals of them by numerous Sovereign Pontiffs from Benedict XIV. to Pius IX. and Leo XIII., it would be not only gratuitous, but presumptuous, to add anything in commendation of this excellent work. SADLIER'S CATHOLIC DIRECTORY, ALMANAC And Ordo for the YEAR OF OUR LORD 1886. With full Official Reports of all Dioceses, Vicariates, Prefectures, etc., in the United States, Canada, British West Indies, Ireland, England, and Scotland. New York and Montreal: D. & J. Sadlier & Co. HOFFMANN'S CATHOLIC DIRECTORY AND CLERGY-LIST QUARTERLY, 1886. Milwaukee and Chicago: Hoffmann Brothers, Catholic Book Publishers. An annual Catholic "Directory" of the Dioceses, Churches, Clergy, etc., in the United States, with ecclesiastical statistics as full and accurate as possible, is almost indispensably requisite to bishops and clergy of the Catholic Church in the United States. As will be seen by the titles of the above named publications, there are now two of these works competing for public favor. The volume by Sadlier & Co., which is before us, comprises, in addition to the United States, Canada, British West Indies, Ireland, England and Scotland. The volume by Hoffmann Brothers is confined to the United States. The price of Sadlier's & Co. is $1.25; but they issue a fifty-cent edition also, containing only the United States portion. of the work. That of Hoffmann Brothers is fifty cents. The latter-named firm also announce that they will publish, quarterly, a corrected Clergylist, which will be sent, free of charge, to every subscriber to the Directory. The object of publishing this corrected Clergy-list is to note in it all changes that occur during each three months, and thus make the Directory as accurate at the close of each year as at its beginning. ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON ALGEBRA: For the Use of Beginners. By Joseph Bayma, S. J., Professor of Mathematics in Santa Clara College, California, San Francisco: A. Waldteufel. 1885. ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY: For the Use of Beginners. By the same author, and the same publisher. In his preface to the former of the above-named treatises, the learned author says that he has made it a point to be as plain and as brief as possible, in order that students of his treatise may look upon it as a pleasurable distraction, rather than an additional burden. In this purpose, we think, he has admirably succeeded. His definitions, rules and explanations are models of simplicity, clearness and conciseness. The examples under each rule and subject are well chosen, and sufficiently numerous to test and exercise the student's faculties. The treatise on Geometry is condensed in like manner, because, Father Bayma says, while "comprehensive books are very useful in the hands of those whose minds are already formed, experience shows that a judicious parsimony proves more successful in encouraging the mental efforts of young beginners." The order and method which Father Bayma has adopted, and the proofs he has selected, are well calculated to save the student from unnecessary labor, and yet, at the same time, to exercise his understanding, and "foster his industry." PRAXIS SYNODALIS. Manuale Synodi Diœcesanæ ac Provincialis celebrandæ. Editio (altera) emendata. Neo-Eboraci: Benziger Fratres. 1886. 12 mo., pp. 96. This valuable little book is based on the work of the celebrated Bartholomew Gavantus, bearing the same title, and which is reprinted in most editions of his "Thesaurus Sacrorum Rituum." But it adds, what is wanting in Gavantus, the ceremonies, formularies, etc., that are needed for the celebration of a Provincial Council. These, as the compiler remarks, are taken chiefly from the Councils of Vienna, Prague and Cologne, held in the years 1858 and 1860. The first edition appeared three years ago, and was then generally supposed to be the work of the present Most Rev. Archbishop of New York. But the name of the true author, Rev. Sebastian G. Messemer, is given in this second, corrected edition. The Rev. gentleman was one of the Secretaries of the late Plenary Council, and belongs to the Diocese of Newark. One of the chief merits of this little book is the lucidus ordo that pervades it from beginning to end, as Archbishop Corrigan well remarks in his Introduction. MONTH OF MAY; OR A SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON THE MYSTERIES OF THe Life OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, AND THE PRINCIPAL TRUTHS OF SALVATION, FOR EACH DAY OF THE MONTH OF MAY. From the French of Father Debussi, S. J. Translated by Miss Ella McMahon. New York, Cincinnati, and St. Louis: Benziger Bros., 1886. A SHORT AND PRACTICAL MAY DEVOTION. Compiled by Clementinus Deymann, O.S.F. New York and Cincinnati: Fr. Pustet & Co. These are two most excellent books of devotion, and each has merits distinguishing it from the other. The former, which is much the larger, has, we are glad to see by the title-page, reached the fourth edition, and the latter ought to be at least equally popular. In order to meet the means of the masses it is gotten out in cheap form, in strong paper cover, but well printed on good paper. The other is also a fine specimen of bookmaking. Both bear the stamp of high episcopal authorization. QUARTERLY REVIEW. THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC QUARTERLY REVIEW is issued regularly in January, April, July, and October. EACH NUMBER CONTAINS 192 pages, large octavo, printed from legible type, on fine white paper. SUBSCRIPTION, $5.00 per annum, payable in advance, or $1.25 a single copy. Postage free to all parts of the U. S. The Editorial Department is conducted by Rt. Rev. James A. Corcoran, D.D. It is DESIGNED that the American Catholic Quarterly Review shall be of the highest character that can be given it by the educated Catholic mind of the United States and of Europe. It is NOT PROPOSED that it shall be confined to the discussion of theological subjects, but that it shall embrace within its scope all subjects of interest to educated Catholics, whether philosophical, historical, scientific, literary, or political -using the latter term in its original and proper meaning. Partisan politics, or popular sense of the word, it is scarcely necessary to say, will be rigidly excluded. 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