Veni, Domine, et noli tardare, relaxa facinora plebi tuæ; et revoca dispersos in terram suam. NEW YORK: LAWRENCE KEHOE, 145 NASSAU Ꮪ Ꭲ Ꮢ Ꭼ Ꭼ Ꭲ . 1866. TRANSFERRED TO "AN AFFECTIONATE RECORD OF A MOST BEAUTIFUL LIFE."- Chicago Republican. "WE HAVE NOT READ A BOOK FOR A LONG TIME WITH SO MUCH PLEASURE AS THIS CHARMING PRODUCTION."-Baltimore Catholic Mirror. THIRD EDITION NOW READY. THE LIFE OF THE REV. FRANCIS A. BAKER, Priest of the Congregation of St. Paul. Edited by the Rev. A. F. HEWIT. 1 Vol., Crown Octavo, 504 pp. Price: Cloth, plain, $2 50; Cloth, bevelled, $3 00; Half Morocco, bevelled, $4 50. This work makes a handsome volume, is printed on fine paper, and is embellished with a fine portrait, on Steel, of FATHER BAKER. EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES OF THE PRESS. Father Baker was a lovely boy, a wise and thoughtful youth, and a devout servant of Christ. The son of a Methodist, the graduate of a Presbyterian College, he became first an Episcopal clergyman and then a Catholic priest. In all these changes, he everywhere won love; and whatever were the peculiarities of his character, he was a sincerely good and thoroughly pure man, and deserved the tribute which this remarkably appreciative and tender biography pays him.-N. Y. Watchman. After Newman's "Apologia" and Robertson's "Life," the memoir contained in this volume is perhaps the most respectable clerical biography that we have met for a long time. We recommend such persons as have already attained to settled principles, and who may have an opportunity, to give the "Memoir" itself a thorough perusal. It is rich in personal reminiscences. It is at the same time, like the "Apologia,” both an argument and a biography.-Christian Times. Father Hewit's biography of his deceased friend is a most noticeable piece of writing. It is as impar tial as could be expected, and has a marked local interest from its allusions to local affairs in religious circles. A great part of it is occupied with an elaborate view of the Oxford, or, as it is familiarly called here, the "Puseyite" movement, and of its effect on this country. The conversion of Bishop Ives, the remarkable scenes at the ordination of Rev. Arthur Carey, the movement toward a Protestant Oriental bishoprica Constantinople in which Bishop Southgate was engaged, and various other features in recent church his tory, all are described, rendering the biography of marked interest to Episcopalians as well as to Catholics while the history of Father Baker is a curious study of the operation of religious belief on a young, vig orous, and active mind.-N. Y. Evening Post. The portrait which forms the frontispiece to this volume appears to represent one of the contempl tive, saintly, seraphic spirits of the early ages of Christianity, rather than a man whose life was cast am the bustle, and activity, and worldly-mindedness of the nineteenth century. The impression is confirme by the perusal of the memoir. It introduces us to a type of character which is rare in these days, an The sermons are remarkable for the earnestness of the reminds us of a strain of medieval music. . . . spirit, the simple and vigorous eloquence of their style, and their frequent beauty of conception and ill tration. The biography, by his bosom friend and companion, is an athletic piece of composition, contre versial and aggressive in its tone, abounding in personal episodes, and presenting a spirited and impressiv sketch of the movement in which both the author and the subject have been prominent actors. Th volume, of course, possesses a paramount interest for Catholic readers, but it forms too remarkable a illustration of some important features in the religious tendencies of the day not to challenge a wid attention from intelligent observers.-New York Tribune. The sermons are the eloquent and fervent effusions of a highly cultivated intellect, and a heart glowing with divine love. The memoir of the life of the author, by Rev. A. F. Hewitt, adds, we think, much t the interest of the work, and would be in itself worth more than the price of the entire book. The sermons here given to the public possess more than ordinary interest, and may be read with instruction an edification. The memoir, by Father Hewit, is the most attractive portion of the volume, and occupies nearly one half of its pages.-Washington Spectator. This is the very best edition, as regards typographical skill, that has as yet been issued of any Catholic work in this country.-Boston Pilot. His sermons are brief, addressed to the common heart and reason of his hearers, and remarkably free from clerical assumptions of authority. The sermon on "The Duty of Growing in Christian Knowledge" is liberal and philosophical to a degree not usual in the pulpits of any denomination.-V. Y. Nation. Sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of the price. Address LAWRENCE KEHOE, Publisher, No. 145 Nassau Street, New York intellect, and a heart of the entire book. T yet been issued of any shearers, and remarka omination.-V. Y. Nation HOE, Publishe assau Street, New HIS RECENT EIRENICON. BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D., OF THE ORATORY. Veni, Domine, et noli tardare, relaxa facinora plębi tua; et revoca dispersos in terram suam, NEW YORK: LAWRENCE KEHOE, 145 NASSAU STREET. 1866. + CI SCLETT A LETTER TO THE REV. E. B. PUSEY, D.D. No one who desires the union of Christendom, after its many and longstanding divisions, can have any other feeling than joy, my dear Pusey, at finding from your recent volume that you see your way to make definite proposals to us for effecting that great object, and are able to lay down the basis and conditions on which you could co-operate in advancing it. It is not necessary that we should concur in the details of your scheme, or in the principles which it involves, in order to welcome the important fact that, with your personal knowledge of the Anglican body, and your experience of its composition and tendencies, you consider the time to be come when you and your friends may, without imprudence, turn your minds to the contemplation of such an enterprise. Even were you an individual member of that church, a watchman upon a high tower in a metropolis of religious opinion, we should naturally listen with interest to what you had to report of the state of the sky and the progress of the night, what stars were mounting up or what clouds gathering; what were the prospects of the three great parties which Anglicanism contains within it, and what was just now the action upon them respectively of the politics and science of the time. You do not go into these matters; but the step you have taken is evidently the measure and the issue of the view which you have formed of them all. However, you are not a mere individual; from early youth you have devoted yourself to the Established Church, and after between forty and fifty years of unremitting labor in its service, your roots and your branches stretch out through every portion of its large territory. You, more than any one else alive, have been the present and untiring agent by whom a great work has been effected in it; and, far more than is usual, you have received in your lifetime, as well as merited, the confidence of your breth |