O'Meara submits a story entitled "Soeur Rosalie" which is 175 pages in length. The price according to the agreement would be forty pounds, but she will not hold Hudson to the agreement unless the Ave Maria is flourishing. She put Hudson's name down for prayers at Notre Dame des Victoires. O'Meara does not like to hear that Hudson is ill so frequently. The Church's canonization of St. Benedict Labre was a glorious stroke of opportunism. The anti-Christians are so sensible to it that they indulge in violent blasphemy and ridicule the life which is a rebuke to modern progress. The Republique Francoise, Leon Gambetta's organ, had four columns of insolent abuse of the Church and Christianity the day after the canonization. She relates an incident of Gambetta's miserliness toward an elderly aunt. The grand ministry that was to have done great wonders is in a mess. It cannot find gentlemen to represent it at the first two Courts of Europe, and its members are quarreling among themselves. The Radicals are alarmed at Prince Otto Von Bismark's change of attitude toward the Church and his confession that he cannot govern the Empire without her. There is considerable serious talk about the King of Italy leaving Rome and establishing his residence either at Turin or Naples. :: X-3-h A.L.S. 4pp. 4to.