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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 26, 28 June 1906, Page 17

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/ DEATH OF SEDDON.— Much obliged for communication. For many years past we have been' obliged ' owing to our restricted space, to forego poet/ry except by ' way of quotation, etc. INQUIRER.— I han'cs for pamphlet. Will deal with it next issue, and return it to you. For information as to converts, see * Rome's Recruits,' by W. Gordon Gorman, reprinted from the ' Whitehall Review,'- and prefaced by a letter from the late Mr. Gladstone. It gives a name-list, extending to 97 "large and closely printed pages, of the most distinguished converts to the Catholic Church in Great Britain and America, etc. The list deals only with those that were specially eminent by birth, position; learning, etc. It was reprinted by Hobbs, Richmond (Melbourne), under the title « Converts ' to Rome during the Nineteenth Century,' and is obtainable through Catholic ttoaksellers. It contains names and' particulars of several Presbyterian clergymen Of late years the most notable Presbyterian clerical converts ' were the Rev. J. M. M. Charleson and a confrere of his— ' both Scotsmen. They are now priests. Their coriver- : sion excited widespread interest and was recorded in sufficient detail in the ' Tablet ' at the time (iust ever' three yeais ago).