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NE w PUBLICATZOoNS.
It is refreshing to find sane views of human conduct put into
such a powerful form as this novel. Saracinesca, printed in Blackwood's HMagazine, has been received enthusiastically in Great Britain. MIr. Crawford has well employed his great talent and his
unimpeachable style in helping to strengthen the growing reactionI against the mad policy of Continental theorists.
The figures in Mr. Crawford's comedy move with ease and
naturalness. Corona is drawn with the breadth and nobleness
of womanhood worthy of the author who painted Diane in that
other not so unobjectionable book, To Leeward. Mr. Crawford
knows how magnificent are the effects of religion on characters
naturally noble, and we see this in Corona. All the late books
by celebrated writers of fiction have been disappointments. Mr.
Crawford's Saracinesca alone is an exception. He has doubtless
reached his acme in it. It would be impossible to go higher without getting abreast of Thackeray, Manzoni, and-with a difference in quality-Nathaniel Hawthorne at their best.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE THRONE OF THE FISHERMAN BUILT BY THE CARPENTER'S SON. By
Thomas W. Allies. London: Burns & Oates; New York: The Catho lic Publication Society Co. I1887.
Mr. Allies has devoted himself for many years to a thorough study of
the Roman Primacy and the formation of Christendom in the early ages of
Christianity. He has produced several admirable volumes on these subjects, and now he has placed a crown on his work by setting forth the royalty of the See of Peter as it shone forth after the heathen persecutions,
from the Council of Nicaea to that of Chalcedon, from Sylvester to Leo the
Great, from the beginning of the fourth to the middle of the fifth century.
Mr. Allies takes his stand upon the testimony which the Council of
Nicaea, by its very organization and by the explicit witness of its decrees
gives of the original, primitive, universal foundation and structure of the
Catholic hierarchy. He shows how this unity of faith and government
maintained and consolidated itself against the inward struggles of heresy
and rebellion carried on by usurping civil and ecclesiastical princes. He
describes the characters and the great works of the heroic intellectual
champions of faith and legitimate authority in eloquent language. The argumentative power and value of the work is of a very high order, and it
has the interest of the most attractive and instructive kind of historical
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