Ram’s Life of Anne Catherine Emmerich, 142. Réglement Ecclesiastique de Pierre Le Grand, 719. Religious State, The, etc., 859. Rhymes and Jingles, 576. Sadliers’ Catholic Directory for 1875, 720. Searle’s Outlines of Astronomy, 717. Sins of the Tongue, 718. Smith’s Notes on the Council of Baltimore, 430. Stewart’s Margaret Roper, 860. Summer Talk about Lourdes, 288. Testimony of the Evangelists Examined, etc., 713. Three Essays on Religion, 575. Tondini’s Réglement Ecclesiastique de Pierre Le Grand, 719. Torrey’s Theory of True Art, 288. Trafton’s Katherine Earle, 288. Universal Church History, 289. Valiant Woman, The, 718. Walsh’s History of the Catholic Church in Scotland, 287. Whitney’s Oriental and Linguistic Studies, 573. Works of Aurelius Augustine, 575. Young Catholic’s Illustrated School Series, 143. THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XX., NO. 115.—OCTOBER, 1874. Matter. III. The plain philosophical and scientific proofs by which we have established the _actio in distans_, although sufficient, in our judgment, to convince every unbiassed reader of the truth of the view we have maintained, may nevertheless prove inadequate to remove the prejudice of those who regard the time‐honored doctrine of action by material contact as axiomatic and unassailable. It is true that they cannot upset our arguments; but they oppose to us other arguments, which they confidently believe to be unanswerable. It is therefore necessary for us to supplement our previous demonstration by a careful analysis of the objections which can be made against it, and to show the intrinsic unsoundness of the reasonings by which they are supported. This is what we intend to do in the present article. _A first objection._—The first and chief argument advanced against the possibility of _actio in distans_ without a material medium of communication is thus developed in the _Popular Science Monthly_ for November, 1873 (p. 94), by J. B. Stallo: