e, le 9 Juin, 1865.

MAGNIFICE RECTOR,

Perquam gratae nobis fuere literae tuae plenissimae illa
humanitate, proximis hisce diebus ad nos datae, in quibus
Dublinensis Academiae nomine moerorem nostrum de obitu Viri
illustrissimi Petri Francisci Xaverii de Ram, tuae doloris
participatione levare voluisti, unaque significasti
Dublinensem Academiam jam nunc hoc quoque curare, ut brevi,
in suo coetu, oblato peculiari Sacrificio, publicis votis
precibusque aeterna requies animae illustrissimi Viri a Deo
expectatur.

Itaque facere non possum, Magnifice Rector, quin nostrae
Academiae nomine tibi gratias quam maximas agam tam ob hoc
germanae caritatis indicium quam ob illam doloris officiosam
significationem.

Immanem profecto jacturam facimus in amissione Viri qui, ut
recte dicis, Magnifice Rector, renascentis Lovaniensis
Academiae quodam modo pater fuit, et diuturno tempore
gubernator prudentissimus, et praecipuum ejus lumen et decus
et ornamentum; quem nos quidem eodem desiderio lugemus quo
filii parentem.

Reliquum est, ut Dublinensi Academiae, quam tu, Magnifice
Rector, sapientissime moderaris et nos praecipuo quodam
amore complectimur, prospera quaevis exoptemus; quod magnam
certe partem praestiterimus, si, quod enixe facimus, Deum
precamur ut te illi Academiae quam diutissime servet.

VICE RECTOR UNIVERSITATIS.

T. A. NAMECHE.

_Viro Eximio ac Reverendissimo Bartholomaeo Woodlock,
Magnifico Rectori Universitatis Catholicae in Hibernia._

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

I.

_History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin since the Reformation._
By Rev. P. F. Moran, D.D. Vol. i. Dublin: James Duffy, 1865.

We are happy to announce the publication of the first volume of the
_History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin since the Reformation_,
by the Rev. Dr. Moran, of the Irish College, Rome, whose past services
to the annals of our religion and country are well known. The first part
of the volume now before us gives an account of the violent and
tyrannical manner by which it was attempted to introduce Protestantism
into Ireland under Henry VIII. and Queen Elizabeth. The arguments by
which the Reformers propagated their opinions were fraud and treachery,
fire and sword, penal laws and the confiscation of property. Dr. Browne
and Dr. Loftus, two Englishmen, who receiv