McQuaid thanks Wadhams for Father John Talbot Smith's history of the diocese of Ogdensburg. He might have given first place to the Bishop and the second to the secretary, but the preference may have been to beauty and to rank. McQuaid has found the book exceedingly interesting. He did not know that Father Patrick Kelly, the first resident priest of Rochester, went to Wadham's neighborhood after leaving Rochester. He built the first church in Rochester in 1821, having come the year before. He left in 1823. McQuaid was under the impression that he went from there to Michigan where he died in 1856. Rev. Mr. Foley was in Rochester in 1834-5 and tried to establish St. Mary's church but failed. McQuaid is not willing to admit that Bishop John Connolly visited Northern New York. Nor did he ever hear that Father John Hughes accompanied Bishop John Dubois on a missionary tour. They were not friendly. Hughes was not his choice for coadjutor and Hughes was too busy as pastor in Philadelphia to leave for a tour through the wilderness of New York. Of course the defects of priests are passed over with charity, but the people were not always to blame for parochial squabbles as appears in Smith. The book makes an excellent basis for a complex record of those early days. More justice might be done to the pioneers of the faith. Many of the laity did excellent work before the advent of the priest. :: I-1-h Incomplete A.L. 2pp. 12mo.