This course constituted the _Lent_ at S. Mary’s, Moorfields, in 1836, when the Oxford movement had already acquired considerable headway, and the public mind was alive to the subjects discussed. In view of the audience which he addressed, they were doubtless prepared with great care, and may therefore be considered most favorable specimens of the distinguished author’s style. One is struck, in looking over Cardinal Wiseman’s works, by the fact of the singular diversity of his gifts, and his preeminence in the varied fields of research and discussion—as if he had made each a specialty. His _Lectures on the Connection of Science and Religion_, delivered the preceding year, has maintained a position in the front rank of works devoted to that subject, and may be said to have become obsolete only in so far as science has presented new phenomena and discoveries for elucidation; while the present work has remained, to our thinking, the most exhaustive popular exposition of Catholic doctrine in the language. His more elaborate historical and critical essays have attracted marked attention, and been thought worthy of publication in separate volumes, while his distinctively belles-lettres works have enjoyed almost universal favor. His _Fabiola_ confessedly stands at the head of Christian fiction. It is a little remarkable that _The Hidden Gem_, and one of the most acute critiques of the day upon Shakespeare, should have been the production of one who it is fair to infer scarcely ever-witnessed an acted drama. The same house has brought out in similar style the _Four Lectures on the Offices and Ceremonies of Holy Week_ by the same author, which we hope will prove a valuable aid to the intelligent participation in the devotions of the present season. The interest in the Lectures is enhanced by the fact that they were delivered at Rome, and relate to the ceremonies in the Papal chapels. * * * * * The Catholic Publication Society will publish in a few days, from advance sheets, a new work by the author of _My Clerical Friends_, entitled _Church Defence: Report on the Present Dangers of the Church_. AN ERROR RECTIFIED. _Card of the Editor of The Catholic World._