"Jacob leans on his staff to pray, Moses falls flat on his face, the Catholic bows his knee, and _the Protestant settles himself into a seat_." (P. 114.) We don't know whether to prefer Protestant taste, or Feejee, or Hindoo. "Thus, out of love to a mother, _the Feejee eats her_, and the European erects a mausoleum. The sentiment is the same, but the mode of exhibition is different." (P. 115.) "The Hindoo represents Brahm, the Great Absolute, absorbed in self-contemplation, as a man wrapped in a mantle, _with his foot in his mouth_, to symbolize his eternity and _his self-satisfaction_." (P. 188.) We remarked before that the author of this book displays considerable learning. Here is a specimen which gives some pleasant information about the old Saxon laws: "Three shillings were deemed sufficient compensation for a broken rib, while a fine of twenty shillings was inflicted for a dislocation of the shoulder. If a man cut off the foot or struck out the eye of another, he was compelled to make satisfaction with fifty shillings. Each tooth had its fixed price: for a front tooth, six shillings were demanded; for a canine tooth, four; and for a molar, only one shilling; the pain incurred by a loss of a double tooth, however, led King Alfred to alter this portion of the law, as unjust, and he raised the price of a molar to fifteen shillings." (P. 364.) He thinks that the idea of compensation, which is here certainly clearly set forth, gave rise to the religious idea of sacrifice. We will close with a favorable specimen of his style. He thus describes Greece: "Under a blue sky, in which the clouds lie tranquil like lodged avalanches, in the midst of a twinkling sea, strewed with fairy groups of islands, is a little mulberry-leaf of land attached to a continental bough, a little land ribbed with mountain-chains of rough-hewn marble, veined with purple gorges, pierced with winding gulfs; a land of vineyards and olive-groves, where roses bloom all the year, and where the pomegranate holds its glowing cheek to a sun that is never shorn of its rays." (P. 148.) We have given these quotations at length, partly because they are a little remarkable as coming from such a source, but chiefly to show that a book may be excellent in some respects, and nevertheless contain very many most false things. Our end will have been attained if we have shown that whatever comes from non-Catholic pens, _even the best, is not to be trusted_, whenever, directly or indirectly, matters pertaining to philosophy, theology, or ecclesiastical history are treated of. These books at best are half-blind guides; and such are never desirable, and generally dangerous. FOOTNOTES: