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xii preaching—so incumbent on me, and on all pastors, and much more on such as are 'overseers' of pastors (episcopos in Greek signifies 'overseer') I have composed the following discourses for the use of my fellow-laborers principally; and next for such as please to make use of them, that they may preach them to their own flocks, since my repeated troubles debar me of the comfort of delivering them in person." The publication of the volume of his Sermons has saved the memory of Dr O'Gallagher from sinking into the sea of forgetfulness. They are the plank on which his name and fame have floated securely over the billows of a stormy social sea.

Valuable information has been gleaned from the volumes published last summer and this present spring (1877), from the pen of Mr. W. Maziere Brady, formerly Vicar of Donaghpatrick, and Rector of Kilberry, diocese of Meath, and at one time Chaplain of several successive Lords Lieutenants of Ireland—the Earls of Clarendon, St. Germans, and Carlisle,—at present a Catholic convert living at Rome. The new work from the pen of Mr. Brady is known as: ", with Appointments to Monasteries, and Extracts from Consistorial Acts, taken from Manuscripts in Public and Private Libraries in Rome, Florence, Bologna, Ravenna and Paris. Rome—Tipografia, della pace, 1876." Of this splendid work the compiler and editor writes:—

"His object was to trace from Roman archives the succession of Archbishops and Bishops in the Sees in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and to collect from authentic sources documentary illustrations of the period when England broke