Most of the leisure hours of Shea's life and much of his means have been devoted to studies bearing on the early and actual history of the Church in this country. It has been the purpose of his life to write this history, hoping that the evening of his days would give him the means and leisure. He has maintained himself by literary labor comfortably, but no more; and year by year his leisure has been required by work needed for his support. Recently some of the Archbishops and Bishops, with several of the clergy have debated on the best means of securing him the necessary leisure, and of completing his collections. Shea proposes to follow the plan adopted by the Abbé Migne with his Patrologia. The History will form five large volumes, each to be complete and independent in itself, the whole series forming a consecutive and complete narrative. The volumes are to be issued at intervals, the first on or before May 1, 1886 and the last to appear in not more than five years from May 1, 1885. The plan will be that each subscriber shall pay the subscription price of the first volume on or before May 1, 1885 and that as the subsequent volumes are delivered a similar payment shall be made. Each patron subscribing $50 annually will receive twenty sets of the work. copies of circular :: II-2-o Printed Circular 5pp. 8vo. 4to. 13