5 JANUARY 1889, page 25

The Suppression Of The Monasteries.* Thi8 Book Is The Work

of an English monk, and is dedicated to the Pope as "the first-fruit of work undertaken in obedience to his command." We must confess that we began to read it with some dread,......

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THE LAND OF DARKNESS.* WE could dispense with "the experience of the little Pilgrim," who has never seemed to us half as impressive as the other spiritual conceptions of the......