contain are coloured by circumstances that have long ceased to exist. Modern modes of thought, modern manners, modern literature, have given rise to a peculiar class of temptations and of dangers, and as these differ quite from those of a century ago, so also do they demand peculiar treatment and special remedies. Father Schouppe has not forgotten this, and takes care to grapple with the difficulties that beset the Christian life of the nineteenth century. Two indexes close the volume. One exhibits a general synopsis of the contents; the other refers to the various passages whence materials may be drawn for a sermon appropriate to the gospel of each Sunday and holiday in the year. Both indexes enhance the practical value of this excellent book, which we do not hesitate to call a real boon for the clergy. _The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland._ By John P. Prendergast, Esq. London: Longmans, 1865. This is a valuable accession to Irish history. It gives an account of the cruelties practised on our people in the Cromwellian Confiscations. It confirms, from official sources, the painful details contained in Dr. Moran’s lately published sketch of the persecutions of the Irish Catholics in the seventeenth century. The Irish land question cannot be well understood without the aid of Mr. Prendergast’s excellent book. FOOTNOTES _ 1 Milton’s Prose: A Lecture delivered in the Museum of Irish Industry, St. Stephen’s Green, by the Right Hon. Judge Keogh_: The Irish Times, June 1, 1865. 2 We print the words of the judge as we find them, though it seems irreverential, not to say worse, to compare a regicide, and a man who denied the divinity of Christ, to the apostle of the nations. Though Milton was gifted with the highest natural powers, yet, not having the qualities of a true Christian, he was only like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. _ 3 Works of Samuel Johnson_: Dublin, 1793, vol. v., p. 72. 4 The _Works of John Milton_. London: Bickers and Bush, 1863: vol. iv. pp. 411, 412. 5 It is entitled _A Treatise of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Toleration, and the best means to prevent the growth of Popery_. 6 “As for tolerating the exercise of their [the Catholic] religion, I answer, that toleration is either public or private; and the exercise of their religion, as far as it is idolatrous, can be tolerated neither way; _not publicly_, without grievous and insufferable scandal given to all conscientious beholders; _not privately_, without great offence to God, declared against all kind of idolatry, though secret”—_Milton’s Works_, already quoted, vol. v. p. 413. 7 See Bayle; _Dictionnaire Historique et Critique_: art. Milton, note o; also _Johnson’s Works_, vol. v. pp. 95, 96. _ 8 Quarterly Review_, October, 1825, p. 446. 9 Milton’s Works, Bickers and Bush; vol. iv. p. 428.