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passed through more than thirty editions, and the articles which he has contributed to the " Biblioteca Italiana " and the " Indicatore " of Milan, have popularized his name throughout Italy. He belongs to what has been called the Eomantic School, founded by Manzoni and Silvio Pellico. This author has published •' Storia Universale," which has been translated into English, French, and German ; "History of Italian Literature," 1851 ; *' History of the Last Hundred Years," 1852; "History of the Italians," 1859; "Milano, Storia del Popolo e pel Popolo," 1871 ; " Cronistoria della Indepen- denza Italiana," 3 vols., 1873 ; "Commento Storico ai Promessi Sposi [di Alessandro Manzoni], ola Lombardia nel secolo XVII." 1874 ; " Donato ed Ercole Silva, Conti di Biandrate ; cenni biograiici," con- jointly with C. Rovida, 1876 ; and " Caratteri Storici," 1881.

CAPEL, The Bight Reybbbnd MoNsiGNOB Thomas John, D.D., was born Oct. 28, 1836. Having completed his education by six years' private tuition under the Kev. J. M. Glennie, B.A., Oxon., in the autumn of 1860, he was or- dained priest by Cardinal Wise- man. In Jan. 1854, he became co- founder and Vice-principal of St. Mary's Normal College at Hammer- smith. Shortly after ordination he was obliged to go to a southern climate to recruit his strength. When there, at Pau, he establisned the English Catholic mission, and was formally appointed its chap- lain. Subsequently, his health having improved, he returned to London, where his sermons and doc- trinal lectures in various churches, and more especially in the Pro- Cathedral at Kensington, soon raised him to the foremost rank among English preachers. During several visits to Bome he also de- livered courses of English sermons in that city by the express com- mand of the Sovereign Pontiff.

Monsignor Capel, while labouring at Pau in the work of "conver- sions," was named private cham- berlain to Pope Pius IX., in 1868, and after his return to England domestic prelate in 1873. With returning health Monsignor Capel once more took to his work of pre- deliction — education — and in Feb. 1873, established the Catholic Pub- lic School at Kensington. He was appointed Bector of the College of Higher Studies at Kensington — ^the nucleus of the Catholic English University — ^in 1874, by the unani- mous voice of the Boman Catholic Bishops, and he held that appoint- ment until 1878. It is said that the Bight Bev. gentleman intended to avoid publislung till he was forty years of age, but the attack made on the civil allegiance of Catholics led him, as a born Catholic, to write "A Beply to the Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone's Political Expostu- lation," 1874. A passage in this work gave rise to an animated con- troversy between Monsignor Capel and Canon Liddon in the columns of the Times, respecting the alleged dissemination of several distinctive Boman Catholic doctrines by the Bitualistic clergy in the Anglican Church.

CAPEBN, Edwabd, born at Tiverton, Devon, Jan. 29, 1819, is the author of " Poems," published in 1856, and now in the third edition, a work which attracted considerable attention, and pro- cured for the author a pension of je40 per annum (afterwards in- creased to £60) from the civil list. In 1859 he published " Ballads and Songs," which was followed by " The Devonshire Melodist," a col- lection of the author's songs, in some instances accompanied by his own music. Edward Capem, who has long been known to the world as "The Bural Postman of Bide- ford," published "Wayside War- bles," in 1865, a second edition of which work, greatly enlarged, i^ peared in 1870.

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