The tone of the " organ" of the new Roman
Catholic Uni- versity, as our contemporary the Weekly Register and Catholic Standard is careful ostentatiously to declare itself, does not pro- mise quite as well for the University itself as we could wish. For example, though we can all overlook some bitterness in Roman Catholics towards Mr. Gladstone since he wrote the article in the Contemporary Review, we should hardly expect to hear an exponent of University culture speak of anything that accomplished man had said as " the exquisite maunderings of some mere crotchetty fribble in a3atheties." That is language which no representative of scholarship should use of an undisputed scholar, even though the latter be an enemy of the Church, and though he once sought to found a more potent equivalent for the new Catholic University. The strategy of the Ultramontanes is not good. A University does not need an " organ " at all. But if it does, it should secure one whose writers are able to speak the language, and respect the courtesies, of the republic of learning. Nor are the Roman Catholics themselves without such papers.
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