We have received from the Catholic Publication Society Co. advance sheets of Cardinal Manning’s latest volume, reprinted from the English plates, which were specially furnished to this house by the English publishers. It is impossible at so short a notice to deal fitly with a work by so eminent an author, and touching on a variety of subjects, each one of which is timely and important. Some indication of the value of the volume may be gathered from the titles of the various papers: “The Work and Wants of the Catholic Church in England”; “Cardinal Wiseman”; “French Infidelity”; “Ireland”; “On Progress”; “The Dignity and Rights of Labor”; “The Church of Rome”; “Cæsarism and Ultramontanism”; “Ultramontanism and Christianity”; “The Pope and Magna Charta”; “Philosophy without Assumptions,” etc., etc. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. SAINT ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF HUNGARY. By the author of _Life in a Cloister_, etc. HORTENSE: an Historical Romance. Translated from the French. By R. J. Halm. Kelly, Piet & Co., Baltimore. THE CROWN OF HEAVEN, THE SUPREME OBJECT OF CHRISTIAN HOPE. From the German of Rev. John N. Stöger, S.J. By Rev. M. Nash, S.J. P. O’Shea, New York. SELECTIONS from the _Imitation of Christ_. SELECTIONS from the _Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus_. Roberts Bros., Boston. STRENGTH AND CALCULATION OF DIMENSIONS OF IRON AND STEEL CONSTRUCTIONS, WITH REFERENCE TO THE LATEST EXPERIMENTS. Translated from the German of J. J. Weyrauch, Ph.D., Prof. Polytechnic School of Stuttgart. D. Van Nostrand, New York. TEN YEARS OF MY LIFE. By the Princess Felix Salm-Salm. R. Worthington, New York. _The Forty-seventh Annual Report of the Inspectors of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, for the year 1876_. Sherman & Co., Philadelphia. SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE WOMAN’S BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETIES. With the Proceedings of the Annual Meetings. Rand, Avery & Co., Boston. NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CLARKE INSTITUTION FOR DEAF MUTES AT NORTHAMPTON, MASS., FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 1, 1876. ON THE VALUE AND CULTURE OF ROOTS FOR STOCK FEEDING. By David Landreth & Sons. McCalla & Stavely, Philadelphia. FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WOODRUFF SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION AROUND THE WORLD. Indianapolis _Journal_ Co., Indianapolis. ANNALS OF THE CATHOLIC INDIAN MISSIONS OF AMERICA. Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, Washington, D. C. INDULGENCES APOSTOLIQUES, OU INDULGENCES APPLICABLES AUX VIVANTS ET AUX DEFUNTS. Que le Saint Père Pie IX. attache aux Rosaires, Chapelets, Croix, etc., qui en ont obtenu le pouvoir approuvé par l’autorité compétente. Rome: Libreria di Roma. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE CATHOLIC WORLD. --------------------- VOL. XXVI., No. 152.—NOVEMBER, 1877.