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Joseph Arch.* One Cannot Help Wishing That This Book Were

more of an auto- biography, and less of a polemic against Mr. Arch's adver- saries, political and social. Angry invective against land- owners, farmers, and parsons—a parson is......

Twelve Years In A Monastery.*

WE have no great liking for the class of literature to which this book belongs. The author, a Franciscan friar, abandoned his Order after twelve years of monastic life because......