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xiv condemns, and of a few only of the books which she thus approves, is sufficient to convince a child, that the self-nominated mistress of all churches is unworthy of being a scholar of the meanest. Her worst enemies need not desire more effectual  tracts what looks very much like a deliberate attempt to impose on the poor uneducated persons among whom they are circulated." See, too, Record, April 6, 1840, from the Morning Herald, where it appears, that the word Catholic above Family Library is printed in small German letters—with what effect among the illiterate is plain: the intention may be fairly inferred. The fallacious, and palpably dishonest, as well as nugatory, declaration of the Papal prelates, &c. in 1826, founded on the celebrated Exposition (or rather Imposition) of Bossuet, is pushed into fresh circulation. Every informed Romanist knows that this work does not contain the honest doctrine of his ChuchChurch [sic], and thartthat [sic] it never had the approbation of the head of his Church. A thing was issued meaning to cheat the author and the world with the notion that it was given: but it was plainly eluded. , who wrote the Life of the bishop, is utterly unable, with all his efforts, to stand against palpable fact.—See Hist. i. pp. 172, &c. or Liv. iii. § xiii.—xv. He may satisfy persons, who, like "J. R." in the Gentleman's Magazine, are, or appear to be, satisfied with any thing on their own side. The specimens of dishonesty and artifice united which I have adduced are nothing irregular or abhorrent from the Papal system. In fact they are a natural and almost an essential part. Noble lords are not indeed to be accused of knowing or sanctioning them, till they are so notorious that they cannot be unknown or denied. To treat of and  of all forms, as the subject deserves, would exceed my bounds. Let Lulworth Castle, or Stoke—Alton Towers, Tavistock, and numberless other places, speak. A copy of the entire epistle of Gregory finds an appropriate place in the present work, as emanating from the person who