The Month.—The articles in this number are too short—an average
of ten pages for each—and somewhat thin. Much more might, for instance, have been made out of a curious book which Mr. W. F. Dennehy has lighted upon—the biography of Thomas Reynolds, the informer, who betrayed the United Irishmen in 1798; and the great theme of " Westminster Abbey and its Memories" is not adequately treated by Mr. Knowles. We get some interesting facts, and should have been glad of more, in "Some Notes on the French Conscript." Many readers will find the account of Julie Billart, Foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame, highly interesting. Another "Founder," as some of us think him, gets but scant justice at the hands of the Rev. W. Loughnan. Why does this gentleman accuse Luther of incon- tinence? lie was no more incontinent than St. Peter and the other Apostles who "led about a wife." And what does not Rome itself owe to him ? It owes to him the difference between Leo X. and Leo XIII.
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