12. To prove that the _Solum Cariense_ might justly be referred to in the eulogy or epitaph of a Bishop M'Carthy, it is interpreted as referring to _Kerry, the burial place of that family_. However, neither the Irish form of the name of that territory, i.e. _Chiarr_ (as we learn from the _Record_, page 380) nor the only Latin name by which we have seen it designated in mediaeval records, i.e. _Cherrium_, can be said to have much affinity with the _Cariense_ of the ancient document of Ivrea. We may also add that, were reference made to the burial place of the princely family of the M'Carthys, we should rather expect to find commemorated Muckross or Innisfallen, than the generic name of the vast territory of Kerry. 13. As regards the name _Machara_ or _Mechar_, it is said that the Irish name MacCarthy, is pronounced _Maccaura_, with the last syllable short, as in Ardmagha, and numberless like words. Hence, Wadding, in speaking of the foundation of Muckross Abbey, Killarney, by Domnall M'Carthy, Prince of Desmond, quotes to this effect a bull of Paul II. in 1468, in which Domnall's name is spelled "_Machar_" (p. 379). This example from the bull of Pope Paul II. is evidently a mere typographical error. In the edition of Wadding's Annals to which the writer refers (Roman edit., tom. xiii., p. 558, _seq._), that error stands side by side with _Desimonia_ and _Aertferten_, and what is still worse, Wadding in his text, citing this passage, is made to say: "Refert in hoc diplomate pontifex, inchoatum fuisse a _Donaldo Mac-Lare_" (p. 432). The origin of these errors is, that the transcripts of the Pontifical letters were made by strangers to our language, and the Roman edition of Wadding did not appear until sixty years after his death. In the original edition of the work, however, which was printed under the revision of Bonaventure Baron and other Irish Franciscans, Wadding's text gives us the true Latin form of the name: "Refert in hoc diplomate pontifex inchoatum fuisse a _Donaldo Mac-Care_" (1st edit. Lugduni, 1648, tom. vi. p. 693), and elsewhere speaking of the same convent of Muckross, he says its founder was "_Magnus Carthagus_", Prince of Desmond. Indeed, the Latin form of the name M'Carthy is not one about which we should have much dispute; it occurs a thousand times in the works of O'Sullivan Beare, Dr. Roothe, and other Irish writers, and yet nowhere is it found expressed under that form which the name of the Blessed Thaddeus presents to us. Whilst, however, we thus dissent from some of the conclusions of the learned writer in the _Record_ for May, we wish to convey to him our sincere acknowledgments for having so prominently brought before the Irish public the name, too long forgotten, of one of our sainted Bishops, under whose protection we may hope that our holy faith will ever prosper, not only in our own island, but also in that now suffering province where his relics are enshrined. THE HISTORY OF A CONVERSION.