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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 45, 7 March 1874, Page 13

Irish and Catholic interests have had for some time pasta faithful representative and spirited defender in ' Catholic Opinion,' a small but efficiently worked weekly jour-no I published in London. We now learn that it has changed proprietors, and will henceforth be issued every Wednesday from the office of the • Tablet.' We can only hope that the change will not involve the destruction of those strong L ish and national sympathies which hitherto characterised ' Catholic Opinion.' But the point we Wke to be extremely doubtful.

At the recent Literary Fund dinner in London,- Mr Tom Taylor, the dramatist, said that during his twenty-two years of official life, his literary work was chiefly done in "the invaluable three hours before breakfast." To this we mny add that George Eliott's favorite time fo» composition is from six in fie morning till nine ; and Mr Anthony Trollope " breaks the back of the day," as Sir Walter Scott has it, by improving the same shining hours.