“Now that the period of _your_ usefulness has gone by, strive to become reconciled to your fate; murmur no more, accept your lot with resignation, be satisfied with the work you have done, and patiently wait for the end.” Curious to hear how the malcontents would take this bit of philosophy, I leaned over to catch the first word; but, leaning too far, I slid off the mow, and falling, not on the floor, fortunately, but on some bundles of straw, was rudely awakened to find that I had been asleep some hours; for evening had come on, and it was now so dark in the barn that I could see nothing of the bold disputants of my dream. Hastening to the house, I amused the family by the recital of this contest of the old against the new; and, profiting by my dream, I have since resolved to accept the mower’s advice, and be always reconciled to time’s changes. New Publications. THE LIFE OF THE BLESSED PETER FAVRE, S.J., First Companion of S. Ignatius. (Vol. VIII. of F. Coleridge’s Quarterly Series.) London: Burns & Oates. (New York: Sold by The Catholic Publication Society.) The history of the Society of Jesus is rich in abundant materials of untiring interest. The Blessed Peter Favre’s apostolic career was short, having been but of seven years’ duration, yet crowded with astonishing results. The particular fact most strikingly brought into view in this _Life_ is the one which of all others is the most shameful for the Reformation—viz., that it had no intellectual or moral origin or character, but sprang merely from the sins and vices which had so frightfully corrupted a vast number of all classes of Christians in the miserable XVIth century. F. Favre saw this clearly, and often said that if Luther himself could have been brought to sincere contrition and repentance for his sins, his errors in doctrine would have disappeared without any argumentation. Accordingly, he set himself to preach like a missionary, to exhort and win persons to a reformation of life, and to labor with wonderful success to convert sinners to God, as the shortest and surest way to check the progress of heresy. The present volume is, like all those which have preceded it, carefully and neatly prepared as a book of choice reading for persons of cultivated spiritual and literary tastes. THE PRIDE OF LEXINGTON: A Tale of the American Revolution. By William Seton, author of _Romance of the Charter Oak_, _The Pioneers_, etc., etc. New York: P. O’Shea. 1874.