WILLIAM GEORGE WARD AND TEE CATHOLIC REVIVAL.
William George Ward and the Catholic Revival. By Wilfrid Ward. Reissue with a new Preface. (Longmans and Co. 6s. 6d.) Readers of Mr. Wilfrid Ward's "Life of Cardinal Newman" were impressed, among other merits of that skilful biography, by the candour with which he treated the antagonism between Newman and his father, W. G. Ward. Filial piety has now suggested that the time is opportune for the reissue of the second part of the Life of Ward published nearly twenty years ago, the period from 1845 onward, in which his point of view in Roman Catholic problems and politics—" narrow and strong," in Ward's own words, "very narrow and very strong "—naturally occupies the central place. Apart from the lucidity with which these theological and ecclesias- tical questions are handled, the book is noticeable for its number of good stories.
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