of St. Gregory" which contains the life of the holy patriarch St. Benedict. The little volume is excellently printed and got up, and will be welcome to the many clients of St. Benedict, who are celebrating with special devotion the present year. BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. 1. African Pets, or Chats about our Animal Friends in Natal: with a Sketch of Kaffir Life. Second Thousand. By F. CLINTON PARRY. London': Griffith and Farran. 1880. 2. Ways and Tricks of Animals; with Stories about Aunt Mary's Pets. By MARY HOOPER. London. (Same publishers.) 3. Christian Elliot; or, Mrs. Danver's Prize. By L. N. COMYN. Fifth Thousand. London. London. (Same publishers.) 4. Wrecked, not Lost; or, the Pilot and his Companions. By the Hon. MRS. DUNDAS. Sixth Thousand. London. (Same publishers.) 5. Among the Brigands, and other Tales of Adventure. By C. E. BOWEN. Fourth Thousand. London. (Same publishers.) WR E have examined these volumes that we might be able to pronounce on their suitability for Catholic children and they have stood the test very satisfactorily; there is nothing in them objectionable on the subject of religion, and they are all, each in its own way, very interesting in the style that is attractive to juvenile minds. There is so much being talked about Africa just now among their elders that young people are sure to be attracted by the title of "African Pets;" and the book will be a great favourite wherever it is read. The stories about the animal pets which the authoress made during her residence in Natal are well told, and gain an interest from her assurance that they are all true. And from the "Sketch of Kaffir Life" children will learn a great deal more about it than most fathers and mothers know. The "Sketch" is written in a good tone and is full of information. The Zulus are said to be the most intelligent and best looking of the Kaffir tribes; their kraals a "picture of neatness.' We are told how they live, dress, what they eat and do ; we learn what a "drift" in Kaffirland is, that Cetewayo's name is pronounced as if written Ketch-y-o, and much besides that will be very interesting to English boys and girls. "Ways and Tricks of Animals" appeals to a more juvenile audience than the other books and will be prized as much for its capital pictures as for the illustrative stories. Of the three remaining stories, "Wrecked not Lost," and "Among the Brigands," are full of adventure and marvellous escapes, just of the sort that will hold boys spellbound. But "Christian Elliott" is a charming story of an incident in the quiet lives of a brother and sister; the boy's character, sayings and doings are especially true to life. His flight and early death, too, are well told, and by their natural pathos help to enforce a good moral lesson which is nowhere "preached," but told in a manner that children will see and feel by the incidents of the story itself. THE DUBLIN REVIEW. OCTOBER, 1880. ART. I. THE WRITINGS OF MR. T. W. ALLIES. 1. Per Crucem ad Lucem. The Result of a Life. By T. W. ALLIES. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1879. 2. A Life's Decision. By T. W. ALLIES, M.A. C. Kegan Paul & Co. 1880. N° London: Translated for the DUBLIN REVIEW from the May and June one who is only partially well versed in the English Catholic literature of our times will dispute Mr. Allies' title to be accounted one of its foremost writers. He is the author of the books before us, and well known to our readers through the highly favourable, yet not too flattering, judgment which was passed in these pages on his famous work, "The Formation of Christendom." Beginning with a lecture on the philosophy of history, he there paints in fine and broad outlines a picture of the development of dogma, and of its influence on all the details of human life. Mr. Allies proves the indefeasible right of Christianity—that is, of Catholic Christianity—in a masterly way by minutely following the respective systems of ancient philosophy in their various stages of progression, as well as by taking into account the innumerable fluctuations to which Protestantism has given rise during its bare three hundred years of existence, and which will be still more numerous as time goes on, if appearances are not deceptive. The author's penetration of judgment, his complete way of viewing the wide domain of the different schools of philosophy, his unflinching adherence to Christianity as to the immortal standard by which each and every phenomenon in the spiritual and natural order are to be measured, his deep devotion to the VOL. XXXV.—NO. II. [Third Series.] S Church, and the whole tendency of the work in the direction of that scholasticism which she has ever prized, make the perusal of its pages a great treat. There is only one voice in Catholic England about the author's "Formation of Christendom." It is pronounced to be one of the most powerfully learned works in the Catholic sense which has seen the light during the last ten years. A few months ago Mr. Allies published another work, which deserves to be brought before the notice of German Catholics as far, at least, as its principal characteristics are concerned. There is a twofold reason for making this desirable. On the one hand the work throws a strong and characteristic light upon the spiritual currents of English thought with a special reference to those of the high-minded converts, who, disclaiming all the worldly advantages which would have accrued to them by remaining in error, did not hesitate to land in the haven of security. The more the Anglican press passes over in dead silence the publications which men of so high a character have thought well to issue in defence of their step, the more should Catholic literature in and out of England notice the learned works of converts, and make known the grounds for their return to the Church. In Mr. Allies' case there is something further to be considered which gives his "Per Crucem ad Lucem" an intrinsic value of its own. We know of no single Catholic writer in England who, as a converted clergyman, has brought out the fundamental idea of the Primacy and the greatness and fulness of jurisdiction of the Apostolic Chair with so much erudition and penetration as Mr. Allies. It has not been only since his conversion that the author has begun to write upon this grand topic, one of the numerous essays belonging to the subject dates from a time when he was still a respected and beneficed preacher of the "word" in the Establishment. What is true of the "Formation of Christendom" may be largely applied to Mr. Allies' later work; it is one of Catholic England's literary pearls. We are not concerned with an organic whole of any kind. The book is composed of smaller writings and publications which he has brought out on various occasions, both as an Anglican and as a Catholic, and which are here collected for the first time. Mr. Allies has done well to rescue these valuable and learned treatises from oblivion, and to draw the attention of contemporaries to the great thoughts which they contain. For the same question which so keenly roused English minds at the time Mr. Allies first entered the controversial arena on occasion of the Gorham Case has by no means lost its interest in their present estimation. Moreover, events in the most powerful German State, to which we can all bear witness, and from the consequences of which many of us are suffering, have fiercely stirred up the question of the source of jurisdiction in the Church, and given it a prominent place in the discussions of the day. The English work before us happens to throw the strongest light upon a fact which was announced a few days go by German newspapers-viz., the reading in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies of the royal decree naming a clergyman, who was consecrated by the Jansenistic bishop of Utrecht, to be himself a bishop. The point at issue is this: Can secular rulers impart jurisdiction for the government of the Church of God? and Mr. Allies replies to it in a masterly way. Indeed, the idea that an affirmative answer to the question must of itself lead to the dissolution of any spiritual body runs like an undercurrent through the whole book, and makes its component parts all converge to one and the same leading thought. Unfortunately the untoward changes which have taken place in the Anglican Church have too often confirmed the views which the author has published upon the point in question during the course of more than thirty years. Hence Mr. Allies has prefixed a careful preface to both volumes, which explains the salient features of the various treatises, gives a terse account of their contents, and shows how they may be justified by Church precedents in the Anglican communion as well as by the practice of the Catholic Church, especially as regards the dogma of Papal Infallibility. Besides a preface of seventy-seven pages, the first volume contains the following four treatises:-1. The Royal Supremacy viewed in reference to the two spiritual Powers of Order and Jurisdiction. 2. The Sce of St. Peter, the Rock of the Church, the Source of Jurisdiction, and the Centre of Unity. 3. Letter to Dr. Pusey. 4. Dr. Pusey and the Ancient Church. As the author remarks in the preface, a most dear friend's leaving Anglicanism in 1845, and publishing a learned work to justify his step, called the first of these treatises into existence. This friend was the present Cardinal Newman, and the work in question was the "Essay on Development," which made a great noise in England at the time. The charge of schism thrown in the face of Anglicanism by Newman was immediately taken up by Allies, who sought to disprove it in a special work, "The Church of England cleared from Schism." The book went through two editions. In course of time, and in consequence of researches accompanied by fervent prayer, the conviction forced itself upon our author that he had only half answered the objection, for, beside the reproach of schism, there was the far graver one of heresy to be removed from his communion. Dr. Pusey it was who encouraged Allies to go to work again on the same subject with a special reference to the Holy Eucharist. At this juncture the scales fell from his eyes when in the month of February, 1850, he made "the discovery of a very simple fact-viz., that by a statute passed in the reign of Henry VIII., and accepted by the English Church, the Papal Supremacy had been transferred to the Crown; and that the existing relation between the Church of England and the State was simply the result of that statute, which, though it had been repealed under Queen Mary, had been re-enacted under Elizabeth" (p. 2). Possessing a clear mind, Mr. Allies drew important conclusions from his discovery, which he laid before the theological portion of the public in the first of the above-named treatises. As he himself remarks, his feeling was one of bewilderment at the clear and powerful light which broke upon him, for his mind was encompassed by a state of things which made it simply impossible for him any longer to defend the religion in which he had been born and brought up, and with which all his chances of earthly prosperity were identified. The treatise on "The Royal Supremacy viewed in reference to the two Spiritual Powers of Order and Jurisdiction" was published on purpose to challenge some sort of explanation concerning a fact which seemed to cut the ground away from his feet in his quality of Anglican minister. All the leaders of the High Church party with whom Allies was on friendly terms received copies of the work. Amongst others we may mention two judges now dead, Sir Edward Alderson and Sir J. Coleridge, Mr. Keble and Dr. Pusey, and finally Archdeacons Wilberforce and Manning. Not one of the numerous persons to whom the treatise was sent ever attempted either privately or officially to say that the author had misrepresented the fact, or deduced illogical conclusions from the fact. Neither friend nor foe ever undertook to contradict the pamphlet. By the party, so to call it, to which the author himself belonged "it was generally ignored, as being ill-timed, for it came out just at the moment of the Gorham decision; or as being importunate, because it brought forward facts most uncomfortable to a Churchman, to which, as nothing could be produced to contradict them, it was desirable to close the eyes and refuse consideration" (pp. 2, 3). The points which Mr. Allies as an Anglican minister laid before his brother clergymen were:-1. The Royal Supremacy. 2. Orders and Jurisdiction. 3. The two kinds of Jurisdiction, that of the inner and of the outward forum. 4. Testimonies of antiquity in favour of the power of Spiritual jurisdiction. 5. The transferring of this power to the English Crown under Henry VIII. 6. Development of the scheme under Elizabeth. 7. Spiritual jurisdiction of the inner forum. 8. Influence of |