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Nazareth College LibraryMich.Nazareth,NoReceivedClass No..FromSOLO BYTHOMAS BAKER,Newman72 Street,ALITERARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY,ORBIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARYOF THEENGLISH CATHOLICS.1ALITERARY AND BIOGRAPHICALHISTORY,BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARYOF THEENGLISH CATHOLICS.FROMTHE BREACH WITH IN THETOROME, 1534,PRESENT TIME." There is a in all men'shistory lives,the nature of the times deceas'd."FiguringSHAKESPEARE,Hen. Part II. Act iii. Scene i.IV.,BYGILLOW.JOSEPHVOL. II.BURNS & GATES.NEW YORK:LONDON:CATHOLIC PUBLICATIONGRANVILLE MANSIONS,=8 ORCHARD W.STREET, B^STREET.PREFACE.the EditorIN this second volume to the begspublicpresentingthe favourable extendedto warmly receptionacknowledge veryand to return his thanks for the usefulto its manypredecessor,it. Certain defects incriticisms which have been passed uponhad beenthe out in these criticisms,system, pointed alreadyreaderamended in the volume. them thepresent Amongstwill not fail to observe a difference in the use of the antiqueand in the mode of with the lives. In order todealingtype,facilitate a series of catch-letters has been introducedreference,the head of each In the theat page. bibliographical partsdistinction between works under notice and thoseby personsto them is and themore marked ;merely relating clearlybeen treatedhave more and atbiographies carefully greaterSome of with their severalthem,length. bibliographicalwill be found to extend to as much as ...
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Nazareth College Library
Mich.Nazareth,
No
Received
Class No.
.From
SOLO BY
THOMAS BAKER,
Newman72 Street, A
LITERARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY,
OR
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
OF THE
ENGLISH CATHOLICS. 1 A
LITERARY AND BIOGRAPHICAL
HISTORY,
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
OF THE
ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
FROM
THE BREACH WITH IN THETOROME, 1534,
PRESENT TIME.
" There is a in all men'shistory lives,
the nature of the times deceas'd."Figuring
SHAKESPEARE,
Hen. Part II. Act iii. Scene i.IV.,
BY
GILLOW.JOSEPH
VOL. II.
BURNS & GATES.
NEW YORK:LONDON:
CATHOLIC PUBLICATIONGRANVILLE MANSIONS,
=8 ORCHARD W.STREET, B^STREET. PREFACE.
the EditorIN this second volume to the begspublicpresenting
the favourable extendedto warmly receptionacknowledge very
and to return his thanks for the usefulto its manypredecessor,
it. Certain defects incriticisms which have been passed upon
had beenthe out in these criticisms,system, pointed already
readeramended in the volume. them thepresent Amongst
will not fail to observe a difference in the use of the antique
and in the mode of with the lives. In order todealingtype,
facilitate a series of catch-letters has been introducedreference,
the head of each In the theat page. bibliographical parts
distinction between works under notice and thoseby persons
to them is and themore marked ;merely relating clearly
been treatedhave more and atbiographies carefully greater
Some of with their severalthem,length. bibliographical
will be found to extend to as much as nineteenaddenda, pages,
Inas in the case of Gardiner and of theBishop poet Dryden.
instances has been taken to introduce themany opportunity
histories of and miscellaneousmissions, schools, colleges,
Catholic and memoirs areinstitutions, frequently subsidiary
which do not come within the limitsgiven strictly general
laid down for the work. It be mentioned that in the firstmay
the letters A to there are sixvolume, comprising C, nearly
hundred and two thousand notices.biographical bibliographical
In the volume there are about three hundred andpresent thirty
of the former and seventeen of the latter. Thesehundred VI PREFACE.
are exclusive of memoirs and the record offigures subsidiary
later of all distinct workseditions, include, course,though they
mentioned in connection with the
bibliography.
The of the was theCatholics originalliterary history English
idea of the this would have beenbutwork, imperfectlyvery
rendered The lives of eminent andwithout the biographies.
even of obscure men not un throw considerable
frequently light
on the theand without them merecontroversies,great descrip
tion of a work could its This isno true idea ofgive purport.
the case thein to controversies within Catholicnotably regard
at thewhether frombody, arising political intrigue aiming
of occasioned differan ordisorganization oppressed party, by
andence of on of ecclesiasticalopinion questions discipline
doctrine.
There is in a and clear statealways difficulty making just
ment of the in in a work in whichquestion dispute, particularly
it is to be brief and concise. in theStill,imperative opinion
of the it is better not to to hide the fact thatwriter, appear
such have but rather to them witharisen,disputes approach
frankness and It has been the writer's endeavourimpartiality.
to show no in these toparty feeling contests, suppress nothing,
and to confine himself as far as to the statementpossible plain
of with criticisms drawn from the most reliable authorifacts,
ties on each side. If of an nature arequotations aggressive
the motive for their insertion has beenoccasionally introduced,
to make understood the animus of theclearly contending
and the of actions which would be uninparties, bearing many
without to and account for them.telligible something explain
In this a truer of bewriters obtained,way appreciation may
and the reader of the value ofenabled to for himselfjudge
which are when a statement isauthorities, always quoted
advanced.
In a work of this on the writer'sas it doesnature, depending
