3 MAY 1890, Page 24

The Pope and the New Era. By W. T. Stead.

(Cassell and Co.) —Our readers will remember the letters from a correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette which were so full of glowing hopes about the future of Papal influence on the world. If Rome can re- generate the world—very good. Let it be so. But she has a difficult non possumus in her way. One might think more of the fact that so ardent a Liberal as Mr. Stead was impressed by what he saw at the Vatican, if it were not for the peculiarity of that gentleman's mind. His gratitude and his hope both seem strongly personal.