Palmer’s Life of Card. Howard, 715 Pearl of Antioch, The, 719 Peters’s Catholic Choir, 283 Pictorial Bible and Church History Stories, 284 Pius IX., Grand Demonstration in Honor of the Election of, 287 Preston’s The Vicar of Christ, 571 Prisoners of St. Lazare, The, 573 Prophetic Imperialism, 574 Rise and Fall of the Irish Franciscan Monasteries, 719 Rose’s Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits, 144 Sadliers’ Catholic Directory, Almanac, and Ordo, 1872, 720 St. Lazare, The Prisoners of, 573 School-Houses, 143 Segneri’s Lenten Sermons, 860 Sermons by the Fathers of the Congregation of St. Paul, 576, 716 Sévigné’s Letters, 430 Smith’s American Home Book, 720 Spouse of Christ, The, 860 Stewart’s Florence O’Neill, 718 Taking of Rome by the Italian Army, 718 Taylor’s Japan in Our Day, 720 The Internationale--Communism, 859 Tissandier’s Wonders of Water, 720 To and From the Passion Play, 576 Tradition of the Syriac Church of Antioch, 428 Vessels of the Sanctuary, The, 860 Vicar of Christ, The, 571 Villefranch’s Cineas, 429 Wonders of Water, 720 Works of Aurelius Augustine, 281 THE 1 CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XIV., No. 79.--OCTOBER, 1871. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by REV. I. T. HECKER, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. CHRISTIANITY AND POSITIVISM.[1] Dr. McCosh had acquired a considerable reputation among Presbyterians in his own country and ours, by several philosophico-theological works he had published, before he was invited to become the president of the New Jersey College at Princeton, one of the most distinguished literary institutions of the Union. It had an able president, also a Scotsman, in Dr. Witherspoon, one of the signers of the Declaration, and a devoted champion of American independence, and, though a Presbyterian, a sturdy defender of civil and religious liberty. Dr. McCosh comes to the presidency of the college with a high literary and philosophical reputation, and comes under many advantages, and its friends expect him to contribute much to raise still higher its character, and place it on a level with Harvard and Yale, perhaps even above them.