An Inquiry Into Socialism. By Thomas Kirkup. New York, Longmans, Green & Co. 1907. Pp. 213.

Tractatus de Extrema Unctione. By Kern. New York, Fr. Pustet & Co. 1907. Pp. xvi, 396.

Regesta Pontificum Romanorum. Berlin, Weidmann & Co. marks.

Italia Pontificia, Vol. II, Latium.

1907. Pp. xxx, 230. Price, 8

The Princess of Gan-Sar. By Andrew Klarmann. New York,

Fr. Pustet & Co. 1907. Pp. 421.

Tales of Troy and Greece. By Andrew Lang. New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1907. Pp. ix, 302.

Thoughts on the Religious Life.

By F. X. Lasance. New York,

Benziger Bros. 1907. Pp. 911. Price, $1.50.

The New Theology. By Rev. W. Lieber. New York, Benziger Bros. 1907. Pp. 53.

The School of Death. By Right Rev. Luigi Lanzoni. New York, Benziger Bros. 1907. Pp. 100.

Bob Ingersoll's Egosophy. Rev. James McKernan. New York, Fr. Pustet & Co. 1905. Pp. 65. Price, .40.

Mariale Novum. By members of the Society of Jesus. New York, Benziger Bros. 1907. Pp. 128.

Forty-Five Sermons. By Rev. James McKernan. New York. 1902. Fr. Pustet & Co.

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The Crucifix. By Rev. W. McLoughlin. Dublin, 1907. M. H. Gill & Sons. Pp. 147.

The Bond of Perfection.

By P. M. Northcote, O. S. M. New

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Apologia Pro Vita Sua. By Cardinal John Henry Newman. New York, 1907. Longmans, Green & Co. Pp. xxvii, 445.

The Life of the Blessed Julie Billiart. By a sister of Notre Dame. New York, Benziger Bros. 1907.

Ailey Moore. By Rich. Baptist O'Brien, D. D. New York, Fr. Pustet & Co. 1907. Pp. xi, 257.

Ritual in Catholic Worship. Very Rev. Father Proctor. New York, Benziger Bros. 1907. Pp. 69.

Meditations for Monthly Retreats.

Rev. H. C. Semple. New York, Benziger Bros. 1907. Pp. xiii, 232. Price, $1.25.

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Goodnight Stories. By Mother M. Salome. New York, Benziger

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Conquest of Our Holy Faith. By James J. Treacy. New York, Benziger Bros. 1907. Pp. 473. Price, $1.00.

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LETTER OF HIS EMINENCE, THE CHANCELLOR, TO THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS

OF THE UNITED STATES.

CARDINAL'S RESIDENCE,

Baltimore, Md.,

November 1, 1907.

It affords me great pleasure to inform you that the collection for the University last year reached the handsome sum of $100,000, and I avail myself of this opportunity to express my profound satisfaction at this result and my sincere thanks therefor to yourself and to the generous clergy and laity of your diocese. While it is true that this sum falls somewhat below the amounts collected in former years, the difference is readily explained in view of unusual circumstances in some localities, and it is offset by the fact that in many dioceses there was a notable increase.

With the collection and with other contributions, the University met all current expenses, made various needed improvements without incurring any debt, and added to its assets the sum of $93,520.52. The Report just published for 1906-07 is truly encouraging, as it shows a sound financial condition and a vigorous academic life.

But at the same time it is clear that much remains to be done. While it is very consoling to know that under present arrangements the work of the University is conducted on a safe economic basis, it would be blindness on our part not to recognize the urgent need of enlarging that work and securing for it the highest possible efficiency. Faculties must be completed, equipment increased and an endowment provided that will enable the University to become in reality what its name implies. For this purpose the sum of $2,000,000, at least, will be required; and as at present we have only about $550,000, it follows that the remaining $1,450,000 should soon be raised. We have in prospect, on a reasonable expectation, $450,000; thus leaving a million dollars, which I sincerely trust will be obtained by earnest efforts in the near future. The proposed endowment of two million dollars would mean an annual income of eighty thousand dollars.

In comparison with the revenues of the older universities in our country, this is not a large amount. And when we consider that in many of these institutions with unlimited resources and farreaching influence there is a spirit of antagonism to revealed religion, the necessity of developing our Catholic University as a stronghold of faith becomes more and more obvious.

It is doubtless a great and laudable work to erect imposing temples for Divine worship, yet these will avail but little unless we also build the living temple of God in the souls of men. The very splendor of the material structure requires that the spiritual edifice should be of equal strength and proportion; and this requirement, under God's grace, is chiefly fulfilled by education. Our Catholic schools are doing a noble work towards this end, and it is but just and reasonable that they should enjoy the advantages which a thoroughly equipped university would offer to our educational system.

Our action in building up the University would also be a fitting response to the words burning with zeal of our Holy Father who, in his recent Encyclical, appeals so earnestly to all Bishops to withstand, by the teaching of sound science, the pernicious encroachments of error. Nothing, I am sure, would afford him greater comfort nor prove our devotion to him more completely than a resolute and united endeavor in behalf of the Catholic University.

For these reasons, then, I venture to urge that the great movement for higher Catholic education be carried forward with everincreasing energy for the glory of God, the defense of religion, the consolation of our sorely-tried Pontiff and the honor of the Church in America.

As your Lordship will remember, the collection as recommended by the Holy Father, is to be taken up on the first Sunday of Advent or any day thereafter during the year that may commend itself to your judgment.

Confiding most hopefully in your hearty co-operation,

I have the honor to remain,

Your Obedient Servant,

JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS,

Chancellor of the Catholic University of America.

PIUS X AND THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA.

The following commendatory letter of our Holy Father the Pope will, no doubt, give just satisfaction to the editors and the writers of the Catholic Encyclopedia, also to the numerous friends and well-wishers of that great Catholic enterprise. The volume presented to the Holy Father in the name of the editors and publishers, by Right Rev. Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, Rector of the American College at Rome, was the first volume in the first set of the magnificent Vatican Edition, of which only twenty-four lettered copies will be printed. The kind and encouraging words of the Holy Father will certainly stir up all concerned in the execution of the Encyclopedia to produce a Catholic work of reference that shall, when finished, leave nothing to be desired.

MOST REVEREND JOHN M. FARLEY,

Archbishop of New York.

Most Illustrious and Reverend Sir: Through your good offices the Holy Father has lately received the first volume of the (illustrated) Catholic Encyclopedia which is to be followed by fourteen other volumes. Quite apart from the rich binding especially prepared for His Holiness, and from the numerous remarkable illustrations which enhance the value of the work and by their perfect artistic finish attract in a pleasing way the attention of the reader, the Holy Father notes with a special satisfaction the importance and practical utility of this new Encyclopedia. To bring together and make fully known in so attractive a manner, especially for the English-speaking world where there are as yet so many non-Catholics, the great and immortal works of the Catholic Church and her children in the domains of science, literature and art, cannot but be an enterprise eminently salutary and beneficent. Indeed, the first volume, in its preface, explicitly states that the purpose of the work is to set forth the immense benefits conferred by the Catholic Church on humanity, not only as to its moral and social development, but also in all that regards its civil, scientific and artistic