tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">431.

• Taine’s Notes on England, 719.
• Tondini’s The Pope of Rome, 427.
• Travels in Arabia, 432.
• Tyler’s Life of Roger B. Taney, 853.

• Una and Her Paupers; or, Memorials of Agnes E. Jones, 569.

• Vaughan’s St. Thomas of Aquin: His Life and Labors, 568.
• Veith’s Via Crucis; or, The Way of the Cross, 426.
• Vetromile’s Travels in Europe and the East, 857.
• Virtues and Defects of a Young Girl, 571.

• Warner’s Saunterings, 719.
• Welsh’s Women Helpers in the Church, 572.
• Wiseman’s Witch of Rosenburg, 720.
• Women Helpers in the Church, 572.
• Woodland Cottage, etc., 432.

THE CATHOLIC WORLD.

VOL. XV., No. 85.—APRIL, 1872.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by Rev. I. T. Hecker, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

TAINES ENGLISH LITERATURE.[1]

In so far as we may judge from the notices in periodicals and newspapers, this work appears to have been received, both in England and the United States, not only with general favor, but with enthusiastic admiration.

A history of English literature based on a system new to the great body of English readers, and written with freshness, verve, and certain attractive peculiarities of style, could not fail to fix their attention and engage their interest from the beginning to the end of its two bulky octavo volumes. The author of the work in question is so well known in the world of letters by his essays on the philosophy of art that he needs no introduction to our readers.

M. Taine starts out with the assumption that the literature of any given country is the exponent of its mental life, or, as he states it (p. 20), “I am about to write the history of a literature, and to seek in it for the psychology of a people.” In France and Germany, we are told, history has been revolutionized by the study of their literatures.