Toner thanks Hudson for the money for the Casamicola disaster. He has been obliged to return to Dax on the advice of his physcian to continue the baths for his rheumatism. Missionary work in Pennsylvania broke his health. It is unfortunate that so great a number of Catholics have lost their faith since Bishop John Neumann died. Both Neumann and Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick had placed Catholicism in Pennsylvania in a good state and seemed on the way to victory but the public school has been a drawback to the progress of the Church in America. While in Rome, Toner related to Edward Cardinal Howard his experiences with the public school system. Howard stated the Holy Father, Leo XIII was anxious over the public schools. Toner differs with some American priests and bishops, who feel that Catholic schools require money to sustain them and thus are not opposed to the public schools. Howard was scandalized at the conduct of American bishops in tolerating the evil of the public school system. Toner commends the Congregation of Holy Cross for their efforts to educate American Catholic youth, as well as for the volume of Catholic literature published by the Ave Maria and the Scholastic. :: X-2-h A.L.S. 7pp. 12mo.