Rome and Canada ; the Ultramontane Struggle for Supremacy over
the Civil Authority. By Charles Lindsey. (Lovell Brothers, Toronto ; Sampson Low and Co., London.)—This volume deserves the attention of all who are studying the problem of the "Free Church in the Free
question, and its conclusions are open to correction. But it certainly
makes out a strong case. What Rome, backed by a majority of un- questioning believers in her claim—and such a majority she has in French Canada, if anywhere—is ready to do and claim, is a subject worthy of attention. The details of the narrative are wearisome and repulsive, but they are certainly instructive. It is not everywhere that Boman Catholics have the courage of their opinions, and it is, therefore, not without interest that we read the candid language of the following : —"It is vain to say that, in Canada, we are obliged to tolerate the liberty of worship ; that it is to this liberty that we owe our Catholic franchises ; we reply that there is an enormous difference between tolerating and defending an abuse. The Catholics are entitled to say, Our Church is free because liberty of worship exists, but that it is not equally per- missible to grant liberty of worship to dissidents by invoking the liberty of the Catholic Church;' we further reply that the Catholic Church alone/toe the right to liberty, because she alone is in possession of the truth." It is really impossible to improve upon the simplicity and directness of the avowal which we have italicised.
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