The "Catholic Publication Society" has in press _The Holy Communion: its Philosophy, Theology, and Practice_. By John Bernard Dalgairns, Priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. A new edition of the _Illustrated History of Ireland_, by a member of the Poor Clares, Kenmare, Ireland, and sold for the benefit of that community. This edition will have additional engravings, and over 100 pages more matter than the first edition. It will also contain a chapter on the Irish in America. The work will be ready about October 15th. Canvassers are wanted to sell it in the country. ----- Books Received. From THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY, New York: Symbolism. By John Adam Moehler, D.D. 1 vol. crown 8vo, pp. 504. Price, $4. The Illustrated Catholic Sunday-School Library Second series. 12 vols. in box, $6 per box. From PATRICK DONAHOE, Boston: The works of Rev. Arthur O'Leary, O.S.F. Edited by a Clergyman of Massachusetts, 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 596. Price, $2. -------------------- {145} The Catholic World Vol. VIII., No. 44--November, 1868. ---------- The Church of The Future. The phrase which forms the title to this article does not originate with us. We find it floating in the columns of various recent periodicals. Our attention is especially directed to it, as the expression of a definite idea, in a late number of the _Galaxy_, and by an editorial in the _Churchman_ for the 25th of July of the present year. From these we gather that, in the opinion of certain modern prophets, some one of the existing Protestant denominations is destined to achieve pre-eminence over all the rest, and, gathering into its single fold the population of America, become the "Church of the Future" in our land. The author of the article in the _Galaxy_ writes in the interest of Methodism. In its past successes and its present characteristics he beholds an omen of its ultimate supremacy over all other Christian bodies, if not over infidelity and rationalism itself. The _Churchman_, on the contrary, claims the laurels of this future victory for Protestant Episcopalianism--predicting that, through its inconsistency with republican institutions, the influence of the Catholic Church must eventually be destroyed; that Presbyterianism, being a growth of but three hundred years, and never yet attaining, or likely to attain to, the _semper, et ubique, et ab omnibus_ of mature and stalwart age, must soon decay; that Methodism, having lost its pure vitality when it departed from the sacred unity of "_Mother Church_" can never meet the needs of coming generations; he thence concludes, that the diminutive society once called the "_Protestant Episcopal_" but now rejoicing in the title of the "_Reformed Catholic_" Church, is to absorb into its bosom the teeming millions of this country, and become the guide and teacher of the Western continent. {146}