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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 37, 1 July 1892, Page 20

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Some Lies and Errors of History. By R n v Reaben Parsons, D.D. author of " Studies in Church History." Notre Dams, Ind. Posflibjy no work of greater merit or more likely to be of use has ever issued 1 from the prolific Press of No' re Dame, than that now before us. The essays contained in the vo ume had already appeared in the pag*l of the well-known periodical, the Arc Maria, where they must certainly have won the admiration of every reader of intelligence. Each of those points in history which are the subject of chronic misrepresentation, and of which the great Protestant tradition has especially made its profit, is taken up, examined by the aid of minute and extensive learning, and placed co strikingly in its true light, that no possible doubt can any longer exist about it. Nothing can furnish the Catholic with readier or clearer answers to those who bring forward in opposition to his faith these stock cases to which we allude, those namely of Pope Alexander VI., St Cyril and Hypatia, Galileo, the Inquisition, St Bartholomew, and tbe rest with which we are all familiar. Dr Parsons has done a useful and necessary work, and done it well. Like every volume issued from the office of the Aye Maria, the book is in every respect admirably brought out. It contains in all twenty essays, every one of them of the highest interest and importance.