of telegraphs. It would have been more just had the writer added that when the real news arrived later, the Pope deplored it with tears in his eyes and left no doubt as to his horror of the deed. Why did the writer avoid informing us that the German Lutherans declared the massacre a just punishment of God on Calvinist heretics? (Guggenheimer Christian Era. Vol. II.) Giordano Bruno. Of this individual we are told that "he was obliged to flee from his convent because he expressed doubts about some church doctrines." As he denied Christianity absolutely and fiercely, the description rather minimizes the situation. It might have been added that he was obliged to flee from the Calvinists also. It is noted that "he lectured in Oxford and enjoyed the friendship of Sir Philip Sydney." The vile fashion in which he speaks of the Protestant Oxford dons and of England generally, would rather suggest silence about that portion of his wanderings. "Finally," says the article," he died at the stake February 17, 1600; and in 1889, under papal protest, a monument was erected on the spot where he had suffered martyrdom." Martyrdom supposes death for a good cause. It would be a service if the Encyclopædia would point out for what good cause he was put to death, if he was put to death-which is disputable. He was a monk who had violated his vows, who boasted of his immorality, and who reviled Christianity. His philosophy was so absurd that nobody thought of him till the German pantheists took him up as their forerunner. The "monument" was erected by the arch-freemason, Prime Minister Crispi, to insult the papacy of which Bruno was the bitter enemy and which Crispi's government had despoiled. Cantù says that "whatever errors have been taught by the ancient pagans or recent heretics were all advanced by Bruno." Martyrs should be made of other stuff. We fear that we cannot recommend the New International Encyclopædia, though we had sincerely desired to do so. Political and Moral Essays. By Joseph Rickaby, S.J. Benziger Bros., $1.50. Most of these essays are reprints, either from The Month or the author's work on Moral Philosophy, which is adopted in many Catholic Schools. The chapter on Savages, Socialism and the Religious Orders, and that on Vivisection under the heading of Sentiment in Ethics, are especially interesting and opportune. How to accept the primitive man of the anthropologists without discarding the primitive man of the Bible is made very easy by the suggestion of what is in point of fact, 'the truth, viz., that the savage of science is a degraded son of the first father of the human race. He is the primitive man of the scientist, inasmuch as it is he who begins the struggle upward from his savagery into civilization. "How far and by what steps," says Father Rickaby, "this primitive man is separated from the primitive man of theology, the anthropologist does not know; no one knows. It is as though some very slow train, anything but a Scotch express, were traced from Edinburgh to the Border and finally reappeared in sorry plight at Grantham, no one being able to tell the story of its intermediate passage." Or, as an American would put it (for we do not know where Grantham is), it is like a train which starts in fine shape from New York, is lost beyond Harrisburg, comes out of a tunnel in the Alleghanies, and is now tearing over the plains to San Francisco. Scientific men are at present exploring the dark tunnel. That's all. The fallacy of Socialism in its hope of permanency is shown by comparing the elements which make up the experimental social communities with those which constitute Religious Orders. The Religious Orders can endure. The Social Colonies are sure to collapse. Vivisection has long been a burning question in England. It has not bothered us here, so far, except in the exaggerations of the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which have come down to cat hospitals, with separate wards for the interesting patients, and automobiles to carry the sufferers to where the tenderest care awaits them. It is the same sentiment which animates the unduly benevolent people of both countries in both of these instances. The book is very instructive, and does not call for knowledge of technical science to understand its teaching. In the Days of King Hal. By Marion Ames Taggart. Benziger Bros., New York, $1.25. The story could not be more rapidly told if it were one of the old chronicles instead of being, as it is, a modern rendition of that species of narrative. 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