FRA PAOLO SARPI obtained immense reputation, especially in Protestant countries, for his _History of the Council of Trent_ and his bitter pamphlets against the Court of the Vatican. In the great contest between the Republic of Venice and Pope Paul V, he took the part of his native city with intrepidity not unalloyed by ferocity. He was undoubtedly a man of great abilities, but his abilities were sharpened by his rancour and malignity. Another historian of the Council of Trent, but one who regarded it from the point of view of the Papal party, was Cardinal SFORZA PALLAVICINO, one of the most brilliant men that ever entered the Society of Jesus. He was so amiable and benevolent that Pope Alexander VII used to say of him "Il Cardinal Pallavicino é tutto amore." He died in 1667. His works comprise, besides the _History of the Council of Trent,_ a _Treatise on Christian Perfection,_ an _Essay on Style_ and a _Biography of Alexander VII._ All these works are remarkable for distinction of style, although he sometimes indulges too much in pointed antitheses. He was very unlike Davila in the care and polish he bestowed upon his compositions. Another Jesuit, DANIEL BARTOLI, wrote the _History of his Order_ and the _Lives of Eminent Jesuits_ in a style little short of perfection. He has indeed been accused of elaborating his phrases until they ceased to be natural; and yet in spite of his elaboration, he had his cavillers who pointed out idioms of doubtful correctness, and said _Questo non si può dire, (this cannot be said.)_ He replied to them in a witty pamphlet: _The Right and Wrong of the Non Si Può._ "A clever work," says Fontanini; "but the Author's cleverness would have been better displayed in avoiding the errors than in defending them with obstinate ingenuity." An eminent preacher and divine of the age was FATHER PAUL SEGNERI whose books of devotion are still used in Catholic countries. He, too, was a Jesuit, but his style is not quite so good as that of his two predecessors. It is occasionally too pompous and declamatory; but he had a fertile and vigorous mind and preached and wrote from his heart.