styles of our poets, even through the strict uniformity of the sonnet; and it is pleasant to have these gems of thought, so highly polished and wrought up, presented one by one to the mind, without the intrusion of any other style of writing. The book is as elegantly got up as its contents deserve.

HISTORY. (1) Lingard's History of England, 2nd edition.

(2) Dodd's Ecclesiastical History, by Tierney, Vols.

I, II, III, IV.

(3) Tytler's History of Scotland, 2nd edition, Vols.
I, II, III, IV.

(4) Moore's History of Ireland, Vols. I, II, III.
(5) Arnold's History of Rome, Vols. I and II.

In respect of all these very valuable works we are greatly in arrear. The first will, we trust, receive very soon the justice at our hands which is due to its acknowledged excellence. We have delayed our notice of the new edition for the purpose of more leisurely examining several topics on which this distinguished author and the third name on our list are at issue.

The Rev. Mr. Tierney has well maintained his character for comprehensive research and unwearied diligence, and has collected the most valuable series of historical documents which we have ever seen, illustrative of the modern ecclesiastical history of England. The great delicacy of many of the topics which are discussed by this learned author, and the great extent of his subjects, render it no easy task to institute a critical examination of his valuable labours. We watch his progress with interest, and with a full intention, when he has made a greater advance, of laying before our readers an impartial critical examination of this work, which must take and retain a very high place in the history of British Catholicism.

Of Tytler and Moore we have read enough to promise our readers that they will greatly thank us if we prevail on them to become purchasers of these most interesting works-of both of which we shall before long present in our pages very full analyses. But the interest of both will suffer no diminution from any delay, which will make us acquainted with larger portions of the works.

Dr. Arnold's History is strikingly new and original, when presented to a reader who relies on the recollections of his schoolboy days. The work is of the deepest interest to the scholar and the statesman, and we wait only for the appearance of his third volume to renew our notice of this great acquisition to our literature. We rejoice in the public testimony to this great writer in his promotion to the chair of History at Oxford.

END OF VOL. XI.

LONDON:

RICHARDS, PRINTER, 100, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, CHARING CROSS.

TO THE

ELEVENTH VOLUME OF THE DUBLIN REVIEW.

the religious impulse she so greatly needs. No worldliness could withstand the spectacle of such Christians as the Indians make; their good dispositions are so universal, that it is difficult to make choice amongst the multiplied proofs of them. We have selected a passage from the last accounts.

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"About thirty of the Serpent Indians, although idolaters, were present at our holy mysteries. They wished to have a conference with me, and invited me to take a place at their council. I gave them a rapid explanation of the truths and duties which the Gospel teaches. They all listened to me with the greatest attention, and then retired to deliberate among themselves. At the end of half-an-hour, one of the principal chiefs returned and communicated to me their resolutions. Black-gown,' said he to me, 'the words of thy mouth have found a way to our hearts, and we shall never forget them. Our country is open to thy zeal: come and teach us how to please the Great Spirit, and thou wilt find that our conduct will correspond with thy lessons.' I advised them to choose from amongst themselves a sensible and prudent man, who would every day in the morning and evening assemble them together, in order to offer their vows to the Lord; and from that very evening the meeting took place, and prayers were said in common.

"A few days after, we arrived at the camp of the Flat-Heads and of the Panderas, or Ear-rings. I shall not attempt to describe the reception which these kind Indians had prepared for their Father; my entry into their village was a real triumph, in which the men, women, and children took part. The great chief, a venerable old man, who reminded one of the ancient patriarchs, awaited my arrival, surrounded by his numerous warriors, and would have at once abdicated in my favour his sovereign authority; but I observed that he had mistaken the object of my visit, and that the salvation of his people was the end of my ambition. We next deliberated upon the time most suitable to be set apart for religious exercises. One of the chiefs brought me a bell, which was to serve for calling the tribe together.

"At the fall of evening, about two thousand savages assembled before my tent in order to recite together the evening prayer. I cannot express the emotions I felt, upon hearing those children of the mountains singing, in praise of the Creator, a solemn canticle composed by themselves. These two thousand voices, rising in chorus in the bosom of the desert, and with all the ardour of an incipient faith, asking of God the grace to know him better, in order to show to him more love, formed for me in the religious calm of that beauteus night a most sublime concert.

"Every morning at day-break, the old chief went round the camp on horseback, and stopping before each cabin, Come, children,' he would say, it is time to get up. Let your first thoughts

be for the Great Spirit! Up, up; the father is going to ring the bell for prayers.' If he perceived any disorderly conduct, or if the chiefs had made any unfavourable report to him, he addressed a paternal remonstrance to the delinquent, and while proceeding to the place of prayer, a promise of amendment usually followed the admonition.

"The strength of the missionary often fails; but the attention of this good people never grows weary. I have assembled them four times a-day, in order to explain the doctrine of our Divine Master; and yet, during the interval, my lodge is always filled with a crowd eager for instruction. Father,' say they to me, 'only we fear to fatigue you, we would pass the whole night here; we forget to sleep when you speak of the Great Spirit.'

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"The Lord has blessed their religious earnestness. After the second meeting, I translated, with the aid of an interpreter, Our Father, the Apostles' Creed, and the Ten Commandments. Having recited them for some days, in the morning and evening, I promised a silver medal to whoever would know them first. Forthwith, one of the chiefs rose up, smiling, and said, 'Father it is mine;' and without any faultering, or mistaking a single word, he gained his medal. I embraced him, and on the spot appointed him my catechist. He set about his work with so much zeal, that before a fortnight all the Flat-Heads knew their prayers.

"The seed of the divine word sown under such favourable circumstances, could not fail to produce an abundant harvest six hundred Indians were admitted to baptism, with the great chief of the Flat-Heads and the chief of the Pandéras at their head. One day, as I was exhorting the catechumens to repent of their faults, 'Father,' said the latter chief, 'I have lived for a long time in the most profound ignorance: I then did evil, not knowing it for such, and displeased the Great Spirit; but ever since I have known what was evil, I have renounced it, and do not remember since then to have offended God wilfully.' Are there amongst our Christians in Europe many who could give a like testimony of themselves?"-vol. ii. pp. 335-6-7.

To counterbalance these beautiful incidents, we are too often disappointed by statements which exhibit the Missionaries exhausting time and strength to follow their wandering flocks through their vast deserts. They continually meet wild tribes, who receive their glad tidings as the thirsty earth would water; but although they can implant the first good impressions, they are absolutely without means of any kind to follow up the work.

We see the wandering character of the Indians attaching itself to their missions, doubtless inevitably, but we regret it; for, in the increased civilization and strength which sta