Shea would like to gratify the Committee and mankind generally by such a paper, but Orestes A. Brownson apart, what have American Catholics done in the domain of literature, science or art that can be paraded? None of the great poets, orators, historians, leaders in natural or medical science, in painting, sculpture, architecture, in great inventions have been Catholics. Will it not do more harm than good to get up and parade fifth rate people and extol them as paragons of excellence. If he could only see his way clear he would be happy to go at the paper, but it is like the chapter on the snakes in Ireland or Tagliaferri's chapter on what the Constitution says against the right of a state to secede. Some other topic ought to be selected; there are subjects more safe—Catholic educational work in the century, work of Catholic women during the century many Catholic writers have been women and can be named here, Catholic principles the soundest basis. :: III-3-c A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.