PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 4, 26 January 1899, Page 20

PUBLICATIONS.

A gifted Catholic lady, Miss Marion Miller is well known as a frequent contributor of poems to both th j Catholic and the secular press of Australia. A selection of jher poems has recently appeared under the title of Sow/^ I run (he lldls. The volume (ip. 221) is handsomely brought out by the publishers Melville, Mullen, and Slade, Melbourne. The poems cover a wide range ot subject — scentry, story, domestic incident, etc. Books bearing the imprint of the Ace J/iiria Office are always welcome visitors to our table. Our brilliant contemporary is helping to fill a void in the Catholic home by the publication of the admirable series of books of history, notion, and controversy which have issued from its pre&s during the past taw year.-. The ino-t recent addition to the series is a pamphlet by Father Gan«s, entitled City of Cii/iffi/im (pp. (H, 1"i cents). It is a reprint of a scries of articles which appeared in the pages of the An 1 Ma no in August and September l.s'.H. It deals with the case of the well-known ll"V. l-)r. Brings, a l'resbyterian clergyman, who was suspended by the General Assembly ot the American Presbyterian Church for heretical doctrine, and was last year received into the ministry ol the Protestant Episcopal Church with the Btmin.i of heresy lresh upon his brow, with his biblical theories unuiodiii<d, and despite an openly professed belief in the Piesbvtenan Confession of Faith. What the author terms 'this strange and bewildering drama' naturally suggested the question : 'Are I'ru&bj terianism and I'rotestant Episcopalianism interchangeable creeds '" Father Ganss proves to the hilt that they were so at the birth of the Reformation. He has brought a vast amount ot historic evidence to bear upon the pomt — his authorities being in every case standard Protestant writers. Father Ganss'b pamphlet is. in luct, a brief anthology upon the subject, a realty valuable contribution to one neglected issue of a great controversy, and is sure to prove highly interesting and instructive to both the Catholic and the Protestant reader.