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 found embedded in a scrap-book of legends, of folklore, of hearsay episodes in relation to that state of expiation, about which the Council is so discreet, and which the great Cardinal Manning was content to refer to as " a waiting among the lilies." The devout author has a zeal that lacks the Council's discretion. He has a nimble mind for conclusions; and a menace even for those who doubt what is at best option, which is not always even a " pious " opinion.

So much — perhaps it is too much — by way of caution seems due. to the reader in issuing this twentieth century edition of Father Schouppe's volume. Moreover, some separate " Notes " have been added at the end of the volume in actual correction or modification of the facts and sentiments appearing in the French edition and in the literal translation into English which it has been thought most candid to make. Readers of approved theological handbooks will not be unaccustomed to the Note which dissents from the Text — a form of disagreement that goes to make the history of that development in the expression of unchanging Christian Truth which is the mark and glory of the living Catholic Church.

The reverend author passed to his rest in the November of 1904.