United States Catholic Historical Magazine

it is very strange that this is the first book devoted to the Martyrs of Charity-to the heroic priests and religious women who, when pestilence sweeps through the land, have hastened to the side of the victim, to save body and soul by the ministrations of mercy. In the early days of Maryland, priests died attending the sickattending Protestants whom their own ministers forsook. We can refer to the fact, for these very men denounced the Catholic priests to the Legislature.

From that day, what an army of priests and religious have died in their work in days of yellow fever, cholera, small-pox, ship fever! It is well that Rev. Mr. Quinn has begun the good work of preserving the record of some at least of these heroic Catholics.

THE CROSS OF CHRIST THE MEASURE OF THE WORLD. By Rev. M. J. GRIFFITH, Valatie, N. Y. New York, D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1887.

This is a timely, well-written work, beginning where it is necessary to begin these days of outspoken infidelity, with the very foundation, the dogma of the existence of God and His government of the universe. It seems to be written in a style to win and interest readers. The doctrine of the "Cross of Christ the Measure of the World" and its adaptation to the wants and wishes of our common humanity, is unfolded in a way to convince and encourage, to stimulate and console.

IRISH SCHOLARS OF THE PENAL DAYS: Glimpses of their Labors on the Continent of Europe. By Rev. WILLIAM P. TREACY.

12mo, 354 pp. Pustet & Co., New York.

A most attractive volume on the Irish Schools and Scholars of the Continent of Europe by a clergyman who has shown no little ability in treating of the earlier period of the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. The subject taken up by Rev. Mr. Treacy is one not specially handled before, and the little volume gives a world of information that must have been the fruit of very extensive reading in the rarest of books. The result is given in a most attractive style, full of interest and pathos. The sketches are interspersed with poems, many of which will attract attention. The volume will afford many a clue to the student of the history of the Church in this country, as many priests who served on the mission in these parts, from Father Andrew White, the apostle of Maryland, down, were trained in Continental establishments mentioned in these pages.

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ACADIANS.... 112, 146, 213, 317-18 | Barraneche, Father John An-

Acoma

Adam, V. Rev. J

Acquaroni, Rev. John B.. 245, 253
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