The
vocation to the ecclesiastical state is the subject of the fifth
chapter, in which is shown that this vocation comes from God in a
special manner, and that it is at once a great honour and a great
benefit. The signs of vocation are detailed in the seventh, and the
signs of non-vocation in the ninth chapters; in the tenth, the motives
and the duty of following this vocation. The religious state, its
origin, its end, its nature, and its properties; the different religious
orders to which a person may be called; the vocation to the religious
state; its principal signs; the deliberation required before adopting it
are the subjects of the next five chapters. The sixteenth and last
chapter discusses the question of vocation to the foreign missions,
considered with respect to its motives, the qualities it demands, and
the precautions which should be taken in carrying it into effect. This
is the substance of the entire treatise; and for accuracy of doctrine,
clearness of style, unction of Catholic spirit, it is worthy of its
important subject and of its author.

IV.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

1. _L'Evangile et la Critique, examen de la Vie de Jesus de M.
Ernest Renan._ Par T. I. Lamy, Professeur a la faculte de
Theologie, et President du College Marie-Therese a l'Universite
Catholique de Louvain. Louvain.

2. _Bernardi Papiensis, Faventini Episcopi, Summa Decretalium
ad Librorum MSS. fidem cum aliis ejusdem scriptoris anecdotis_,
edidit Ern. Ad. Theod. Laspeyres, etc. Ratisbon,
apud Manz, 1861, lxiii.-367.

3. _Memoir of the Abbe Lacordaire._ By the Count de Montalembert,
one of the forty of the French Academy. Authorized
translation. Bentley, 1864, xv.-312.

4. _Importanza della Storia, considerata nelle cose che le servono
di materia._ Par Domenico Solimani, D.C.D.G. Roma:
Tipografia Forense, 1861, pp. 529.

5. _Percy Grange, or the Ocean of Life_, a tale in three books.
By the Rev. Thomas J. Potter, of All Hallows College.
Dublin: Duffy, 1864, pp. 320.

6. _Tavole Cronologiche Critiche della Storia della Chiesa Universale,
illustrate con argomenti d'Archeologia e di Geografia_,
Par Ignazio Mozzoni, etc. Roma: Cromolitografia Pontificia.
1861. Vols. i. to ix.

7. _Notes upon the Errors of Geology illustrated by reference to
facts observed in Ireland._ By John Kelly, Vice-President
of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland. Dublin: John