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WORKS or REFERENCE.—The Catholic Directory, 1918 (Burns and Oates, le.

6d. net) gives very full details of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain. It estimates that there are in England 1,890,018 Roman Catholics, and in Scotland 546,000 ; there were 3,242,670 in Ireland in 1911.—The Catholic Who's Who and Year Book, 1918 (same publishers, 3s. 6d. net) contains 4,500 short biographies of British and Irish Roman Catholics. —The Scottish Church and University Almanac, 1918 (Edin burgh : Macniven and Wallace, le. 6d. net), gives full information about the several Churches and Universities in Scotland and the Presbyterian Church of England. It is to be noted that even the small Churches, like the Synod of United Original Seceders, have their missions oversee