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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 27, 3 April 1891, Page 7

Seventy-five women of Pera, Ind., whjss husbands spent their earnings in gambling dens, have warned the professional gamblers they must close their places in twenty-four hours and remove from the city within ten days all their gambhog furniture or it will be burnt d iv the streets.

The name of the new Nationalist daily about to bi started in Dublin will be the National Press. It will appear in M.irch. Mr. John Hooper, the editor of the Cor II 11I 1 Herald, and at one time a member c f the Irish Parliamentary party, has taken temporal editorial charge. The business management is in the hands of Mr. William O'M alley, formerly manager of the Star.

Mgr. I'aul Guern his just completed his " Dictioanaire des Dictionnaires," an encyclopie lie dictionary of the French language. It is in six laige quarto vo.urnes of over 1,200 pa^es each, m king in nearly 24,000 closely-piinted columns. Already 6 000 copies have been sold. It may be recommended as an excellent book of reference for Catholic college libraries, other modern works of tne Bame kind, buch as Little's and Laronb^e's, being written in an anti-Catholic and anti-Christian spirit.

Catholics have often maintained that dissenting congregations are in many c-ises as much social and political as religious societies ; but w have never seen aay Catholic criticism of Nonconformist chapels, which was nearly as bitter aa ihat witfh which Mr. C. H. Spurgeon attacks them in The Sword and l'roiicl. Not only does he say that home Nonconformist churches " mig tit be called clubs for social, p htical. liteiaay, and spoitive put poses," but he goes on to declare that the recreatious connected with those chapels are such as to enourage a taste for gambling and loose hongs of the low music hall type. Our own knowledge of the subject is limited ; but we caunot believe that this picture is not exaggerated. The friendship of the artist may be sincere ; but his candour i 3 a little too sinking. There may be some, we imagine, who would prefer the somewhat mundane air of the Congregational chapel to the close, pride-ata'.ned atmosphere of the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Tbat is a matter of taste ; but when we remember that the dissenting communities represent Protestantism in iisipurest form, Protestantism doubly and trebly refined by repeated secessions of the "unco quid," this judgment from the mouth of Ibe most evangelical popular preacher in England seems all tht more Btartling.— Liverpool Catholic Times.