A Useful Volume of Essays.—Mr. Walsh in the English Churchman calls attention to Dr. Law’s Collected Essays and Reviews in the following words:—”Those of my readers who take an interest in the political action of the Papacy in England and Scotland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries will find a vast amount of valuable material in the ‘Collected Essays and Reviews of Thomas Graves Law, LL.D.,’ published by T. & A. Constable, Edinburgh, in a handsome volume of 406 pages. Mr.
Law was at one time a priest at the Brompton Oratory, but subsequently he left the Church of Rome, and died in 1904. His exposures of Jesuit and Papal tactics are most valuable. Amongst other subjects he treats at length on the ‘Letters and Memorials of Cardinal Allen,’ ‘English Jesuits and Scottish Intrigues, 1581-82,’ ‘The Spanish Blanks and Catholic Earls, 1592-94,’ ‘Father William Creighton, S.J.,’ and ‘Devil-Hunting in Elizabethan England’—the last being a powerful exposure of frauds by Romish priests. Useful historical information can be found in this volume which cannot be acquired from any other book of the kind.
Protestantism in the House of Commons.—The April issue of the Protestant Observer devotes its leading article to the discussion of the above subject. During the present session four new Bills will come on for debate in which the interests of Protestantism are closely connected. Two of these have already been introduced and are waiting for second reading—the object of these two Bills is the expression of the Romanising movement in the Church of England. The other two Bills expected to be introduced are Government Bills, and if one is to judge from forecasts they are likely to help Popery in Ireland.
Nuns that never Speak.—The Protestant Alliance Magazine has begun a series of articles, copiously illustrated, on the Bernardine nuns. This series is a sequel to those describing the life of the Carmelite nuns. This latter series was issued in pamphlet form and may be had for sevenpence, post free. That the pamphlet serves its purpose may be gathered from the fact that the Roman Catholic press have bitterly attacked it.