THE CATHOLIC WORLD. H A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. VOL. XV. APRIL, 1872, TO SEPTEMBER, 1872. NEW YORK: THE CATHOLIC PUBLICATION HOUSE, 9 Warren Street. 1872. Сс Acoustics and Ventilation, 118. Art, Faith the Life of, 518. CONTENTS. Education, The Necessity of Philosophy as a English Literature, Taine's, 1. Gothic Revival in England, History of the, 443. Iliad, Bryant's Translation of the, 381. India, Protestant Missions in, 690. Jans von Steufle's Donkey, 92. Jewish Convert, A Reminiscence of Vienna, 211. Lamartine, The Mother of, 167. Last Days before the Siege, The, 457, 666. Letters of His Holiness Pius IX. on the "Union of Christian Women," 563. On the Misty Mountain, 705, 823. Paris before the War, A Salon in, 187, 323. Philosophy as a Basis of Higher Education, The Philosophy, Review of Dr. Stöckl's, 329. Quarter of an Hour in the Old Roman Forum Religious Processions in Belgium, 546. Reminiscence of Vienna, A, 211. Review of Mr. Bryant's Iliad, 576. Rich, Duties of the, in Christian Society, 37, 145, Rights of Women, How the Church Understands Roman Empire, The, and the Mission of the St. James's Mission at Vancouver, Decision Salon in Paris before the War, A, 187, 323. Siege, Last Days before the, 457, 666. Spain: What it was, and what it is, 397. Stöckl's Philosophy, Review of, 329. Symbolism of the Church, The, 605. Taine's English Literature, 1. "Union of Christian Women," Letters of His United States, The Catholic Church in the, 577, 749. Use and Abuse of the Stage, 836. Vancouver, Decision against the St. James' Ventilation, Acoustics and, 118. Women, How the Church Understands and Up Books and Pamphlets Received, 144. Burke's The Men and Women of the Reforma- Clare's (Sister Mary Frances) Hornehurst Rec- Coleridge's Life and Letters of St. Francis Conscience's The Merchant of Antwerp, 720. Craven's (Mrs.) A Sister's Story, 287. Curtius' The History of Greece, 139. De Croyft's (Mrs.) Little Jakey. 432. Dorward's Wild Flowers of Wisconsin, 287. Dubois' Zeal in the Work of the Ministry, 137. Erckmann-Chatrian's The Plebiscite, 858. Excerpta ex Rituali Romano, etc, 574. Extracts from the Fathers, etc., 569. Fiske's The Offertorium, 574. Fitton's Memoirs of the Establishment of the Liquefaction of the Blood of St. Januarius, 136. Longfellow's The Divine Tragedy, 427. McQuaid's (Bp.) Christian Free Schools, 432. Maguire's Pontificate of Pius IX., 856. Maistre's A Journey Around My Room, 138. Memoir of Roger B. Taney, 853. Merrick's Lectures on the Church, 430. Newman's Historical Sketches, 855. Oakeley's The Order and Ceremonial of the Mass, Paine's Physiology of the Soul, etc., 430 Pellico's Duties of Young Men, 575. Phædrus, Justin, and Nepos, 575. Proctor's Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Proctor's Strange Discoveries Respecting the Rawes' Great Truths in Little Words, 856. Reports on Observations of the Total Solar Roscoe, Huggins, and Lockyer's Spectrum St. Teresa, The Book of the Foundations of, 142. Sedgwick's Relation and Duty of the Lawyer to Sermons by Fathers of the Society of Jesus, 425. Smiddy's An Address on the Druids, Churches, and Round Towers of Ireland, 143. Taine's Notes on England, 719. Tondini's The Pope of Rome, 427. Tyler's Life of Roger B. Taney, 853. Una and Her Paupers; or, Memorials of Agnes Vaughan's St. Thomas of Aquin: His Life and Veith's Via Crucis; or, The Way of the Cross, 426. Vetromile's Travels in Europe and the East, 857. Virtues and Defects of a Young Girl, 571. Welsh's Women Helpers in the Church, 572. Wiseman's Witch of Rosenburg, 720. SOCIETY LIBRARY NEW VIRK CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XV., No. 85.-APRIL, 1872. TAINES ENGLISH LITERATURE. * IN so far as we may judge from the notices in periodicals and newspapers, this work appears to have been received, both in England and the United States, not only with general favor, but with enthusiastic admiration. A history of English literature based on a system new to the great body of English readers, and written with freshness, verve, and certain attractive peculiarities of style, could not fail to fix their attention and engage their interest from the beginning to the end of its two bulky octavo volumes. The author of the work in question is so well known in the world of letters by his essays on the philosophy of art that he needs no introduction to our readers. M. Taine starts out with the as sumption that the literature of any given country is the exponent of its mental life, or, as he states it (p. 20), “I am about to write the history of History of English Literature. By H. A. Taine. Translated by H. Van Laun. With a Preface prepared expressly for this Translation by the author. New York: Holt & Williams, 1871. a literature, and to seek in it for the psychology of a people." In France and Germany, we are told, history has been revolutionized by the study of their literatures. "It was perceived," says M. Taine, "that a work of literature is not a mere play of imagination, a solitary caprice of a heated brain, but a transcript of contemporary manners, a type of a certain kind of mind. It was concluded that one might retrace, from the monuments of literature, the style of man's feelings and thoughts for centuries back. The at tempt was made, and it succeeded." Unquestionably the style of man's feelings may be traced in literature for centuries back. That is M. Taine's first approach. But between the successful insight into this or that writer's opinions and modes of thought and the opinions and modes of thought of a nation, the void is so enormous-unless, indeed, we dangerously reason from particulars to generals as to require to fill it more subjective literary productions than any country has ever yet produced. From this system it would follow Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by Rev. I. T. HECKER, in the Office al the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. |