Review of reviews and world's work . sas a father in Israel, anIsrael now orphaned and sol-itary, not knowing whereto look for a guide so res-ohite and courageous, andJfcc so tender and true. DEATH AND OLD Catholic Church lostin the .,ame fatal monthFather Anderledy, the Gen-eral of the Jesuits, smitten down at lovely Fiesole, near Florence, and CardinalSimeoni, the chief of the Congregation of the Propaganda, the great missionary society of the Church,the organization under whose control lie all theEnglish-speaking lands. The Church of Rome isofficered chiefly by the aged in its highe


Review of reviews and world's work . sas a father in Israel, anIsrael now orphaned and sol-itary, not knowing whereto look for a guide so res-ohite and courageous, andJfcc so tender and true. DEATH AND OLD Catholic Church lostin the .,ame fatal monthFather Anderledy, the Gen-eral of the Jesuits, smitten down at lovely Fiesole, near Florence, and CardinalSimeoni, the chief of the Congregation of the Propaganda, the great missionary society of the Church,the organization under whose control lie all theEnglish-speaking lands. The Church of Rome isofficered chiefly by the aged in its higher I visited the Vatican I felt as I had neverdone before that I was in the dominion of the whole of the immense machine is driven bymen all of whom are over fifty, most of whom areover sixty, and very many of whom have passedtheir threescore years and ten. The reign of Eldhas its advantages, but it has its disadvantages ;and one of the latter is the extent to which anepidemic that mows down the old tells upon -ts. THE LATE CAKDINAL MANNING. staff. Fortunately, the Pope, although threatened,was spared, but Rome could better have sparedthe Pope than the Catholic Church could have fore-gone the advantages of having Cardinal Manning asits chief representative in the capital of the English-speaking world. STATESMAN AS WELL AS PRELATE. The Cardinal occupied a place unique and unap-proachable. The whole bench of Anglican bishops,with the archbishops at their head, might witherfrom the sees and be no more with us, and theircoml)ined departure Mould make a less palpablevoid in English public life than the death of thisone man. The reason for that is that they are only THREE EMINENT ENGLISHMEN. 183 1)181101)8 of their dioceses in affairs they have great temporal sovereignty andoccupy places in the House of Lords among the peersand legislators of the realm, the national life is forthem, with here and there an exception, a thingapart This is for polit


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