"^ IBRARV CaWort»«» ( IRVIN' Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2007 witli funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcliive.org/details/essayscliieflylitOOdeveiala ESSAYS ISHERi*.£ PUB' ESSAYS CHIEFLY LITERARY & ETHICAL ^^ BY AUBREy'^DE VERR LL.D. MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1889 A// rights resenieii TO THOMAS W. ALLIES, K.C.S.G. THESE ESSAYS ARE DEDICATED IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS GREAT WORK •THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM' ADVERTISEMENT volume were, with few exceptions,The Essays in this contributed to the periodicals named in the advertise- preceding Essays. One appeared in thement to my Spectator^ and one in the National Review. " Aspects belongsLiterature in its Social " to a series of lectures on literature delivered at the request Cardinal Newman when Rector of the Catholicof "University of Ireland. Church Property and Secu- "larisation is included because, though it is now too late to recall that secularisation of Ireland's Church Property unhappily preferred to a just distribution of it, which last measure would have laid the foundation for not a destructivea constructive policy in Ireland, yet the arguments used by me against secularisation in this Essay and several Pamphlets—arguments which elicited but slight response in that country—are, for the most part, applicable not less in thecase ofEngland.
"^ IBRARV CaWort»«» ( IRVIN'Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2007 witli funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcliive.org/details/essayscliieflylitOOdeveialaESSAYSISHERi*.£ PUB' ESSAYS CHIEFLY LITERARY & ETHICAL ^^ BY AUBREy'^DE VERR LL.D. MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1889 A// rights resenieii