The Month, for December•. (Burns and Oates.)—All who wish to
see an able statement of the Roman Catholic view of the duty of civil alle- giance as it is affected by the Roman Catholic's duty to the Pope, should consult the paper in the Month by the Rev. T. B. Parkinson. It dis- cusses with great clearness the bull of Bonifaco VIII, "Unam Sanctam," on which the writer in Macmillan made so powerful an assault in this month's (December's) Macmillan, and certainly gives the most coherent account of the relation of civil to spiritual allegiance in the Roman Church, without confounding the two, which wo have yet seen by any Catholic. We have not before mot with the writings of the Rev. T. B.
Parkinson, but he likely to prove, we think, a powerful controver- sialist on a side Nfhich has rather lacked new men of late. Tho paper on De St. Cyran is, of course, written from the Jesuits' point of view, as it is written by the editor, the Rev. H. J. Coleridge ; but it is moderate from that point of view, and well worth study by any one who cares for that curious episode in ecclesiastical history, the Port Royal struggle.
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