An Earnest Appeal to Evangelical Episcopalians. By Matthew Bridges, Esq.
(Longman and Co.)—The author informs us that he was once an Evangelical, and that his brother, the Rev. Charles Bridges, is still a light of that party. Mr. Matthew Bridges has become a Papist, and he says (for we cannot doubt his meaning, p. 22) that the Rev. Charles
has out him in consequence for the last fourteen years, and when his
name is mentioned, either "sanctimoniously elevates a pair of tearful eyes," or puts on "the downcast expression of a woe-begone counte- nance, accompanied with pions groans, or dolorous asseverations, that to the ears of Almighty God alone can his name ever be mentioned." This is of course very bitter, though we fancy that the expressions attributed to the Rev. Charles are not historical. Mr. Matthew takes
his revenge in this earnest appeal addressed to "my dear brother." It is a very vigorous and amusing production, which shows that the author
has not forgotten the lessons of his Evangelical youth. He puts the Catholic case against Protestants just as rabid Evangelical clergymen put the Protestant case against Catholics—namely, without either candour or charity—and apparently with the additional intention of being as offensive as possible to "my dear brother."
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