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necessity of both one and the other, may be read with safety.

Every literary production, be its artistic qualities what they may, that scoffs at religion, disregards truth, looks upon morality as a prejudice into which men have fallen; that speaks lightly of any of these; that throws any, the least aspersion upon them; that even in a negative manner, by losing sight of them, and treating subjects as though these eternal principles were not, thus insinuates that life is good without them, — every such production is to be condemned, and its reading discouraged.

Questions: What is the Decalogue? What is the great defect of modern fiction? What is the reader's duty in regard to immoral though artistic literary works? Give in your own words the three rules for the choice of books to be read.

Write in your own words the scene beginning at "see that young lady transported," and ending with "this is a scene of daily occurrence."

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Thomas Campbell, born in Scotland in 1777; died in 1844. His principal poems are "The Pleasures of Hope" and "Gertrude of Wyoming;" but it is to his lyrics, which are among the finest in any language, that Campbell owes his fame. "The Exile of Erin," "Lochiel's Warning," "O'Connor's Child," Hohenlinden," "Ye

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Mariners of England," and many others, are familiar wherever the English tongue is spoken. The best evidence of Campbell's popularity is the great number of quotations from his poems which have passed into aphorisms.

T summer eve, when heaven's ethereal bow

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Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,

Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye,
Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky?
Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear
More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Thus, with delight we linger to survey
The promised joys of life's unmeasured way;
Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene
More pleasing seems than all the past has been,
And every form that fancy can repair
From dark oblivion, glows divinely there.

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Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), presented in his life and character the strangest mixture of genius and vagabondism. Failing to pass at the University of Dublin, he became in turn poor teacher, literary hack, medical quack and wandering minstrel. He tramped through Europe, living by his flute, and the result of his sight-seeing he gave to the world in the "Traveller." This made him known to fame, but his shiftlessness, improvidence and generosity always kept him struggling with want. His next great work, that by which he will ever be remembered, was "The Vicar of Wakefield." "The Deserted Village" and the comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer," were the last of his most famous productions. Goldsmith is one of those authors that are always read, while more magnificent names are only praised. In everything that he wrote there is a cheerfulness, a purity of sentiment, a quaint, droll humor, that seems to permeate his very words, and cause the printed page to speak like the author's luring voice. He is probably the best example in English Literature of what is called the "natural style."

THE wretch condemn'd with life to part,

Still, still on hope relies;

And every pang that rends the heart,
Bids expectation rise.

Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light,

Adorns and cheers the way;

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Change the first four lines by Campbell. Explain: "'tis distance lends enchantment to the view,"

oblivion, glows divinely there."

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we linger to survey," "from dark

Change the first stanza from Goldsmith.

THE RELIGIOUS MISSION OF THE IRISH PEOPLE. THE real importance of a man or a people cannot be

estimated by their worldly position. There is no more fatal error than to imagine that the future belongs to those who possess the present. To be great, man must unite himself with a great cause. He must lose his life in something higher and holier than himself before he can find its fullest power; and thus we may by experiment verify the truth that they who abandon all find all; and hence those whom God destines to do a divine and immortal work are taught wisdom by suffering and privation. Whom he loves he chastens, and whom he would use to great ends, he sorely tries.

Now the one constant and abiding cause, amid the rise and fall of empires, is religion, by which alone man can hope to be redeemed from the perishing elements which everywhere surround him; and the one and only true religion is that of Christ, who has founded forever the worship of God in spirit and in truth; and Christ's religion is historically expressed and embodied in the Catholic Church. She is God's real, authentic kingdom in this world, and to be called to do a great

work for her is to have a sublime and a heavenly mission.

Though guided and protected by the Holy Spirit, she, in her progress through time, is in many ways left to the care and devotion of her children. As she may be attacked by men, she may also be defended by them; and her defenders know that, though open to attack, yet is she invincible: a standing miracle, and the world-wide example of the immutability of God's decrees.

It is good to fight for a power which is holy and strong, which is able to wring victory from defeat, and which is immortal. To die in such a cause were a man's chief glory, and God's providence can prepare no higher destiny for a people than to make them the witnesses and apostles of the truth as revealed in Christ.

And this, as I take it, is the religious mission of the Irish people in the new era upon which the Catholic Church is now entering. Let us, before we direct our thoughts to the present and future, cast a glance at the past. She has seen and known cities of men, and manners, climates, councils, governments. She has known the worst, and therefore trusts her destiny, and proclaims without fear her heavenly mission. She is certain of herself. She has definite aims and fixed purposes. It is surely something to have come down the long centuries and still to have faith and hope and love; to have a venerable past, and yet not despair of the future. And since the Church has already proven that she is able to live in this democratic land, will not the fact that she has lived in all the centuries since Christ was born, and in many climes, and amongst many people, in deserts and in catacombs, in tents of savages and in palaces of kings, throw the mystery and splendor as of the setting sun over her new rising in this other world?

If, now, we turn to explain this rebirth of Catholicism among the English speaking peoples, we must at once admit that the Irish race is the providential instrument through which God has wrought this marvellous revival. As in another age men spoke of the gesta Dei per Francos, so may we now speak of the gesta Dei per Hibernos. Were it not for Ireland, Catholicism would to-day be feeble and non-progressive in England, America and Australia. Nor is the force of this affirmation weakened by the weight and significance which must be given to what the converts in England, and the Germans and the French in the United States, have done for the Church. The Irish have made the work of the converts possible and effective, and they have given to Catholicism in this country a vigor and cohesiveness which enable it to assimilate the most heterogeneous elements, and without which it is not at all certain that the vast majority of Catholics emigrating hither from other lands would not have been lost to the Church. No other people could have done for the Catholic faith in the United States what the Irish people have done. Their unalterable attachment to their priests; their deep Catholic instincts, which no combination of circumstances has ever been able to bring into conflict with their love of country; the unworldly and spiritual temper of the national character; their indifference to ridicule and contempt, and their unfailing generosity, all fitted them for the work which was to be done, and enabled them, in spite of the strong prejudices against their race, which Americans have inherited from England, to accomplish what could not have been accomplished by Italian, French or German Catholics.

At the breaking out of the war of independence there

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