l dioceses,
vicariates, prefectures, etc., in the United States, Canada,
British West Indies, Ireland, England and Scotland. Unbound, $1.25.
Bound, $1.50. An edition comprising only the church in the United
States, 50 cents.

This is the fifty-fourth annual publication. It composes a great body of
information interesting to every Catholic. All families should have it
in their houses.

All of the above books may be obtained of Messrs. Noonan and Co., as
well as of the publishers.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THEFT OF A VALUABLE BOOK.--A valuable book has been stolen from the
library of the Minerva, Rome. It is one of the very few copies of the
works of Lactantius, which were printed at the Benedictine monastery of
Santa Scholastica, near Subiaco, in the year 1465. So rare are the
copies of this work, that the price of a single copy has reached 15,000
francs, or L600. The most minute inquiries have been made, but the
missing volume has not been traced.

A Selection of the late Lord O'Hagan's speeches, as revised by himself,
will very shortly be published by Messrs. Longmans & Co. The volume
opens with a speech on the Legislative Union delivered at a meeting of
the Repeal Association in 1843, and closes with Lord O'Hagan's speeches
in the House of Lords in 1881-82 on the Irish Land Laws. The work is
edited by Lord O'Hagan's nephew, Mr. George Teeling, and contains
numerous biographical and historical notes.

THE ANGEL GUARDIAN ANNUAL FOR 1886.--Seventh year. Published by the
House of the Angel Guardian; Boston, Mass. Price 10 cents. Besides the
matter contained in Almanacs generally, this little annual has also a
collection of interesting and instructive articles. There are several
excellent engravings, prominent among which are portraits of Cardinal
McCloskey, Archbishop Williams, Daniel O'Connell, Rev. G. F. Haskins,
and Hon. Hugh O'Brien, Mayor of Boston, accompanying biographical
sketches.

MR. T. P. O'CONNOR'S new book, _Gladstone's House of Commons_, will be
issued by Messrs. Ward and Downey early next week. In the preface the
author says:--"It would be too much to ask the reader to believe that
these sketches betray none of the bias natural to one who took a
somewhat active part in many of the scenes described. But an effort was
made at impartiality." The volume is called _Gladstone's House of
Commons_. The justification of the title is the commanding position held
in the last Parliament