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The Progress Of Astronomy.*

THOUGH the two books before us are of very unequal value, they may be mentioned together as affording a convenient measure of the advance made by astronomy in the last hundred......

The Papacy In The Nineteenth Century.* " The Essential...

of this history," says Mr. Schwab in his preface, " is to rescue Catholicism from its Papal carica- ture, and to maintain its importance as a corrective to Protestant......