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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 21, 14 September 1883, Page 3

If the young men who attended the Nat onal Convention of Citholic Young Mens' Societies iv Brooklyn, last week, were, in any notable degree, representatives of tbe societies that sent them, the Catholic Church in America has reason to be hopeful and prou i of her young laymen. A more respectable, intelligent, able, and busi-nees-like collection of yoing men we have never met. Their public action and their private walk were alike creditable and impressive. Their sentiments were sound, and their ability to state and defend them was self-evident;. The peers has given them a large share of attention, and they amply deserved it all. Catholics had reason to be pleased with them, but their admirable conduct gave pleasure to all loversof manlike men, no matter what their sympathy for Citaolics may be. It changed that, at the public banquet we sat next Corporal Tanner, a well-known gentleman of high position in Brooklyn, whoss experience of conventions and gatherings of men is unsurpassed. Hia verdict, that it would not |have been possible to get together in America a better class of young men, will be generally accepted as a high, but well-deserved tribute from a non- Catholic observer. — Catholic Eeview, July 7.