The Dublin Review (Volume 4; V. 8) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867. Excerpt: ... promoting the Revolution; and on the mistaken narrowness of those, who confine their views of that most anti-Christian movement to its political aspect. And he has been particularly happy in selecting (p. 46) Victor Emmanuel's proclamation of Sept. 11, I860, as the best adducible illustration of that monarch's shameless and unscrupulous policy. Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects. By the late Frederick William Faber, D.D., Priest of the Oratory of S. Philip Neri. Vol. II. "The Faith and the Spiritual Life." London: Richardson & Son. 1866. XN our April number we welcomed the first volume of these Notes. A second has now appeared, and in no way falls short of the first in value or interest. We venture to think this collection will enjoy a popularity as great as that of the author's finished works. The form of notes will make it especially serviceable as a storehouse for meditation and sermons. It has all Father Faber's characteristic variety and richness of thought, and a surprising unity and completeness, when we remember that it consists of detached papers, ranging over a busy period of sixteen years. This merit is due, in great measure, to the careful and excellent arrangement of the Notes. They are classified, according to their subjects, in the order followed by Father Faber in his beautiful volume of hymns. The subjects treated of in the former volume were God, His Attributes, the Most Holy Trinity, the Sacred Humanity of Jesus, the Passion, our Blessed Lady, and the Saints. The present volume is occupied with the Church, the Sacraments, Controversy, the Spiritual Life, Miscellaneous Subjects, the Four Last Things, and Purgatory. From this exhaustive catalogue of subjects it is to be presumed that we have no further papers to hope for; and few r...