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Biographies of English Catholics in the Eighteenth Century. By the

Rev. John Kirk, D.D. Edited by J. Hungerford Pollen, S.J., and Edwin Burton, D.D. (Burns and Oates. 7s. 6d.)—John Kirk (1760-1851) intended to continue Dodd's "Church History," and to this end collected the biographical materials, notices of some thousand individuals, which are hero published for the first time.