Essays on Various Subjects. By Cardinal Wiseman. (Thomas Baker.)—In this
volume we have under eleven heads a number of Cardinal Wiseman's articles, essays, and reviews. Among the most notable of them are two letters which contain an elaborate defence of the text of "The Three Witnesses," an apology for Pope Boniface VIII., and a criticism of the "High Church Theory of Dogmatical Authority." The Rev. Jeremiah Murphy has pre- fixed a "Biographical Introduction," which may be read with interest. Might we suggest to Mr. Murphy that in estimating the wisdom or unwisdom of the popular expression of feeling about the so-called "Papal Aggression," the matter cannot be judged without some reference to history, past and present? If the Irvingith body had parcelled out England into dioceses, no one would have heeded. But people could not be expected altogether to forget what Roman rule has meant in England.
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