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The Rev. Edward Arthur Harris, for 13 years Curate and Preoentor at St. Al ban's, Holborn, was received into the Catholic Church on Tuesday, July 24, at Bt. Mary's, Great Yarmouth, by the Rev. Patrick Hassan, S.J. On July 21, at the Church of Holy Rood, Swindon, England, Miss Edith Blake had the happiness to be received into the Church by Dean Lonergan, rector of Swindon. It is annonnced from Paris that the celebrated louiance writer, M. Paul Bourget, has made a complete conversion to Catholicism. To this is attributed his desire to issue a new edition of hi» workb free from faults, both of morals and doctrine. The Rev. A. C. Heurtley, curate in charge of St. Mark's, Jarrow, and grandson of the late Dr. Heurtley, for many years Mayaert Professor of Divinity at Oxford ; and the Rev. J. T. Gorman, curate of St. Clement's, City road ; and Mr. M. G. Dunlop, Chairman of the Bishopsgate Branch of the English Church Union, were received into the Church by Father Va»Ball,C.SS.R.,at Bishop's Stortford, on August 4. Some time ago we (London Tablet) announced the news of the conversion to Catholicism of a third distinguished professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo. We are now enabled to state that the convert in question is Dr. Von Koeber, who, though of German extraction, as his name indicates, is Russian by nationality. Another recent convert of note in the Japanese capital is the Baroness d'Anethan, wife of the Belgian Minister and sister of Mr. Rider Haggard, herself an authoress of some repute. Yet another convert in the diplomatic body is the Hawaiian Minister, and these are only some oat of several remarkable conversions among the European body in Japan. A sensation has been caused by the announcement that Dr. Egbert Muller, the well-known leader and exponent of the spiritistic oause in Germany, has been received into the Catholic Church. Dr. Muller, a highly cultivated and thoughtful man, has for many years played a prominent part in Berlin intellectual and literary life. He has, before an assembly of several thousand persons, expressed it as his conviction that modern Spiritism is ' a bold scheme of Satan for the destruction of the Church of Christ,' and it would seem that this conviction haa been arrived at after many years of careful and apparently unbiassed investigation.