"But we must not be deluded into thinking that such popular preaching is easy: on the contrary, it is very difficult of attainment; for it involves no less a task than that of speaking a language which shall be level to the comprehension of the masses, and at the same time adapted to educated minds. Would you master that task? Study much, study every thing: theology, literature, the Holy Scriptures, more especially the Gospel; acquire a deep insight into the human heart; and, withal, cultivate your own mind till it can digest all knowledge. Then write and speak like one who has really drawn what he utters out of the good treasures of the heart, and in such a way that all who hear you may be ready to say: 'Really, what he states is very simple; it is sound sense; it is right. It is just what I would have said myself under similar circumstances.' Let us recall what has already been remarked elsewhere--that a little study withdraws us from the natural, whereas much study leads us to it. Reveal your heart, your soul; for, after all, the soul of man, that masterpiece of God's hand, will always carry more weight than all the embellishments of philosophy or rhetoric." Let this zealous author speak of what he will, he invariably comes back to his first principle: "Love the people, if you would have any influence with them for good." Each chapter reveals the fact that this thought is the one which is uppermost in the writer's mind, and, therefore, the one he desires to impress the more deeply upon the minds of his readers. He knows how to tell plain, homely truths without offence, and criticise severely the faults of his brethren without acerbity or presumption. It is a book that will do good, a great deal of good, and we commend it most heartily to all our readers, who will assuredly derive much pleasure and no little profit from its perusal. The translation has been made by a finished scholar, and leaves nothing to be desired for purity of style or fidelity to the original. The volume is published in a finished and elegant style. ---- Essays On Religion And Literature. By Various Writers. Edited by Archbishop Manning. Second Series. London: Longmans, Green & Co. New York: For sale by The Catholic Publication Society. The titles of these essays and the names of their authors will give our readers a good idea of the character and value of this volume: _Inaugural Address, Session_ 1866-7, the Most Rev. Archbishop Manning, D.D.; _On Intellectual Power and Man's Perfection--Dangers of Uncontrolled Intellect_, W. G. Ward, Ph.D.; _On the Mission and Prospects of the Catholic Church in England_, F. Oakley, M.A.; _Christianity in Relation to Civil Society_, Edward Lucas; _On the Philosophy of Christianity_, Albany J. Christie, M.A., S J.; _On some Events Preparatory to the English Reformation_, H. W. Wilberforce, M.A.;