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REVIEW OF PUBLICATIONS. ——— CM "CHURCH MUSIC." I Church Music is a neat handbook, 26 pp., giving a discourse delivered in St. Chad's Cathedral, on the half jubilee of its choir, by Bishop Ullathorne. Published by Messrs Burns & Oates, Granville Mansions, 28, Orchard-street, London, W. CATHOLIC BELIEF." This is the title of an excellent publication, con- taining more than 400 page", giving a short and simple exposition of Catholic doctrine," by the Very Rev Joseph Faa Di Bruno, D.D., rector gen- eral of the Pious Society of Missions, Rome and London. The work, which has been issued to meet a popular want, has reached its eighth edition, and is still in great request by inquirers after spiritual and religious truth. The fifth edition was prefaced by a letter from the Cardinal Arch- bishop of Westminster, in which his Eminence testified his appreciation of the work as follows :— Archbishop's House, Westminster, S.W., May 2nd, 1384. My dear Dr Faa di Bruno, The very signal success of your book on Catholic Belief renders all recommendation unnecessary. Nevertheless, I wish to thank you for giving us one of the most complete and useful manuals of doctrine, devotion, and elementary infor- mation for the instruction of those who are seeking the truth and not for them only, but for those who have in- herited it. The immense number already in circulation shows how directly it meets a great need and I hope it will be more and more widely diffused. As you are called away from among us, you have left us a valuable bequest. Believe me always, yours affectionately in Jesus Christ, HENRY E., Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. Publishers, Burns & Oates, Limited, Granville Mansions, Orchard-street,"London, W. "THE GENTLEWOMAN." Last week's Gentleiooman was really a magnificent sixpenny-worth of art and literature. The issue bore the super-title of Autumn Leaves, or the Fashion Double Number," and the artistic richness of its superabundance of fashion pages was quite a marvel. Particular appropriateness is attached to the selection of the sketch for Gentlewomen at Home last week, for a biographical sketch and capital portrait of Mrs Gladstone, together with some of the choicest interior and exterior views of Hawarden Castle, were given. Amongst the other portraits the most prominent are those of Mr LawsonTait, F.R.C.S. (the exceptionally gifted and successful London surgeon), the Baroness Burdett Coutts, Madame Anna Ruppert, and Mrs Spence Watson. The fashion pages, which have been choicely coloured and decorated, embrace sketches and the newest designs in gowns, dresses, furs, millinery, cloaks, frocks, and other autumn novelties by the principal London fashion houses. Every gen- tlewoman ought to possess a copy of last week's Gcntlcwoifuin, published by Mr A. J. Warden, Howard House, Arundel-street, Strand, London, W.C. ANGLICAN ORDERS ARE THEY VALID ? The Rev J. T. Breen, O.S.B., has written an exhaustive treatise on the above subject in the form of a letter to a friend, and it has been published in handbook form for circulation by Messrs Burns and Oates, Paternoster-row, London, and other houses. In the course of a preface to the revised and enlarged edition it is stated that The rapid sale of this little work, and the frequent applications for fresh copies, seem to indicate that it met a want long-felt, and that a second edition would be acceptable. The author has endeavoured, therefore, to make the present edition as complete a handbook of the whole question as possible. The history of Barlow has been entirely recast. It has not been thought worth while to notice the alleged recog- nition of Anglican Orders by the Council of Trent, and by the Popes Pius IV. and Innocent XII. Canon Estcourt and others have exposed the absurdity of such a statement so completely that no one who has any reputation to lose would now care to repeat it. This story has for some time had to be relegated to the limbo of exploded fables. The reference to the action of the Council of Trent in the first edition has also been altered, because, although true, its bearing seems to have been political rather than theological. In the hope that it may help honest and earnest souls in their search after the truth this second edition is offered to the public." "GREAT THOUGHTS." The monthly number of Great Thoughts for October is to hand, and even a glanca through its contents prominently reveals the fact that noble and inspiring thoughts still continue to permeate its pages. The handsome coloured presentation plate this month is entitled "A Rockbound Coast," which is accompanied by Tennyson's beautiful lines- Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea And would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. The late Mr Charles Bradlaugh, M.P., and the Rev Canon Liddon are the subjects of "Tributes to Great Men." The portraits and other illustra- tions are particularly lifelike and realistic and the lengthy biographical sketch of the late Mr Samuel Morley, M.P., should be read with ex- ceptional interest by all who revere the memory of that renowned statesman and Liberal Noncon- formist. Rome, new and old is the title of an article giving impressions of a tour in Italy, by W. J. Dawson, and it will, no doubt, command a large range of readers while a sketch of the Rev Dr Henry Allon-" The Grand Old Man of Con- gregationalism "-together with a view of the interior of Union Chapel, Islington, is equally interesting. Mr Raymond Blathwayt describes an "Interview with Mark Twain," which is one of a series of interviews with Leading Americans now appearing in Great Thoughts. The inter- view took place at the humourist's charming house in Hartford, Connecticut. The theme discussed was, of course, the philosophy of humour. Mr Clemens detests "interviewers" in se; and Mr Blathwayt probably posed in a character less objectionable." Just now Mark Twain is in the south of France among the hills, reading Daudet, 'tis said. He will remain there for two years at least, in order that his children may acquire the language. The interview is accompanied by an excellent portrait of the world known humourist. The Rev R. F. Horton, of Hampstead, is one of the coming men among Nonconformists. He is now thirty-seven, and is described by an inter- viewer of Great Thoughts as "a good-looking, brown-haired and brown-bearded man, wearing spectacles, and with a singularly pleasant voice, and quiet, winning manner. He is tremendously busy, always at work, quite one of the new school, and a very favourable specimen of the rising young Nonconformist minister. Great Thoughts also contains a very good portrait of Mr Horton. Great Thoughts, weekly one penny, monthly sixpence, published by Mr A. W. Hall, 2, Racquet- court, Fleet-street, London, E.C. "THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE." The number for October of this magazine con- cludes the year's series for 1891, and we have no doubt the volume is fully equal, if not superior, to any of its predecessors, and is well worthy a prominent position in libraries of high-class literature. The contents for October are as follow: "Rudyard Kipling" (with full-page portrait), by Edmund Gosse; "My Last Days in Siberia" (illustrated), by George Kennan "Atrial Navigation the Power Required" (illustrated), by Hiram S. Maxim "Besieged by the Utes; the Massacre of 1879," by Colonel E. V. Sumner; "A Water Tournament; Play in Provence" (illustrated by Joseph Pennell), by Elizabeth Robins Pennell; The Press and Public Men," by General H. V. Boynton An Esca- pade in Cordova," by F. Hopkinson Smith "The Story of a Story (decorations by George Whar- ton Edwards), by Brander Matthews; Who was El Dorado?" (illustrated), by Lieutenant Henry Rowan Lemly "Tarrying in Nicaragua Pleasures and Perils of the California Trip in 1849 (illustrated), by Roger S. Baldwin, jun. "Topics of the Time;" "Open Letters;" and "Bric-a-brac." The engravings continue to be excellent, and even for this fact only the magazine is at least worth double its ordinary price. The volume closes with singular appropriateness, for on the last page is given a beautiful eulogy to the late James Russell Lowell, by an anonymous writer. Referring to the New World, to which the lamented laureate was for so long and inti- mately identified, the writer concluded as follows:— Take of thy grief new strength, new life, 0 land! Weep no more he is lost, but rejoice and be glad for ever That thy lover who died was born, for thy pleasure, thy glory- While his love and his fame light ever thy climbing path. A leaflet accompanying the October part contains an announcement from the publishers in the form I 01. a programme for the coming year, which in. clude four attractive serial novels, together with a great variety of fiction work, to be set before the readers of the Century Magazine during the coming year. The scene of the serial novels will be laid in various parts of the world, and the writers will include the following Mrs Burton Harrison, Mrs Mary Hallock Foote, Rudyard Kipling, Woolcot Balestier, Dr S. Weir Mitchell, Archi- bald Forbes, Senor Castelar (the famous Spanish statesman, orator, and writer), Edgar Wilson Nye (" Bill Nye "), Thomas Bailey Aldrich, General Sherman, and Dr Edward Eggleston. The Century Magazine is no doubt the prince of publi- cations of its kind, and is published, at Is 4d, by T. Fisher Unwin, Paternoster-square, London, E.C.

BARRY DISTRICT TRADES COUNCIL AND LOCAL PUBLIC BODIES. At a meeting of the Barry and District Trades Council, held at the Victoria Hotel, Holton-road, Barry Dock, on Friday evening last, the following special circular was ordered to be addressed by the secretary to the members of the Barry and Cadoxton Local Board and the Barry U.D. School Board:- TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS. Resolution re Sub-Letting, &-c., <t;c. GENTLEMEN,—The above Council being under the impression that the remarks of Mr Harrison (one of the deputation) are calculated to cause an erroneous idea as to our requirements in the above resolution of of June 26th last, the said Council think it advis- able to make our demands more explicit, and with that end m view we beg to say That this Coun- cil strongly deprecates sub-letting in cases where labour only is supplied by the sub-contractors," and in support of the view we take, we beg to call your attention to the following resolutions passed by the Trades Congress recently held at Newcastle That this Congress strongly urges upon all sectional trades employed in the erection of buildings to use their utmost endeavours to eradicate sub-letting and scamping in the building trade and that in future the only contracts recognised should be either a whole or a joint contract. In case of a joint con- tract of sectional trades all the sectional contractors' names should appear in the original contract agree- ment, and any contract let by the original contractor, after the signing of the original agreement, should be termed a sub-contract, and should not be recognised by the operatives. Such sub-contractor shall not be recognised as the legal employer." Contracts and Fair Wages. "That, considering the evils recently disclosed by the Sweating Committee, this Congress instructs the Parliamentary Committee to use every means at their disposal to secure the insertion of a clause prohibiting (under penalty) sub-letting in all contracts given out by the Government, by Municipalities, or other public bodies, except where the department or auth- ority specially concerned allows the sub-letting of such special portions of the work as would not be produced or carried out by the contractor in the ordinary course of his business. That no contract shall be given to any firm or firms that do not con- form to the customs, the hours of labour, and the rate of wages laid down by the trades union or trades unions in the particular district where such special portions of the work have to be executed. Also, tnat no contract shall be recognized as valid that is a con- tract for labour only. The Congress also calls on all labour representatives and other friends on all public bodies to insist on these conditions being inserted in in all contracts, and strictly carried out." The other portions embodied in the resolution of June 26th, which, we are of opinion, were explicitly set forth in the wording, are :—That the preference of local contracts should be given to local men, and local appointments likewise—all things being equal to those of strangers. Having thus explained matters as fully as possible we sincerely trust that this will have the serious con- sideration which it deserves at the hands of the rate- payers' representatives at their next meeting. I remain, Gentlemen, yours sincerely, For the Barry and District Trades Council, J. REES, Secretary. 4, Iddesleigh-street, Cadoxton-Barry, September 30th, 1891. LETTER FROM THE SCHOOL BOARD. The following letter has been received by Mr J. Rees, secretary to the Barry District Trades Council, from Mr W. H. Lewis, clerk to the Barry U.D. School Board, in acknowledgment of the receipt of a letter by the School Board Cadoxton, near Cardiff, 1st October, 1891. DEAR SIR,—Your letter of the 15th ultimo and enclosure were duly laid before the Board, and I was directed to forward you the following copy of a resolution passed by the Board at a meeting held on the 14th September, 1891, when your deputation attended, and which the Board think covers all that is contained in the clauses of your circular, with the exception of clause 4 :— "A deputation, consisting of Messrs Harper, Rees, Thomas, and Brock, representing the Barry Dis- trict Trades Council, waited upon the Board, and after hearing the deputation as to the sub-letting of contracts and the payment of wa¡res settled by the Trades Union, the Board informed the depuutation that in the letting of contracts in future the Board would stipulate that the rate of wages authorised by the Trades' Union be paid, and that sub-letting of contracts should not be allowed without the consent of the Board."—Yours faithfully, WILLIAM H. LEWIS, Mr J. Rees, Secretary, Clerk. Barry District Trades Council, Cadoxton.

DEATH OF THE REV. CHARLES H. JENNER, LATE OF WENVOE. A telegram was received at Wenvoe Rectory on Tuesday last announcing the death of the Rev Charles Herbert Jenner, who died that morning at an early hour, at the advanced age of 72 years. He died at his eldest son's house, at Wallington, near London, with whom he had been residing since he resigned the Wenvoe living, under the Benefices Resignation Act, a few years back, when he was succeeded by his youngest sop, the Rev George Herbert Jenner, the present rectoi. The deceased was the second son of the late famous Right Hon. Lee Herbert Jenner-Fust, Judge of the Prerogative Court, Dean of Arches, and Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and brother of the late Mrs Jenner, of YVenvoe Castle. In former years he held Wenvoe and Merthyr Dovan livings, together as locum, tcnens for the Rev Alfred Herbert Jenner, and in those days he was recognised as a "Puseyite, but his discretion and good judgment prevailed, as a rule, and he did not offensively obtrude his views. On the death ot the late Rev Alfred Her- bert Jenner aforesaid, on May 8, 1868, he was apain appointed Rector of Wenvoe. Like his illustrious father, probably no man enjoyed a wider circle of true and genuine friends, and he will be universally regretted. His wife died at Wenvoe Rectory a few years back, and was buried, at her special request, at St. Fagan's, whilst several children are buried at Wenvoe and elsewhere in England. Three sous sur- vive the deceased, viz., Mr Henry Jenner, in her Majesty's Court of Probate, Somerset House; Mr Edwin Jenner, in the Bank of England and the Rev George Herbert Jenner, rector of Wenvoe. The funeral will take place at Wenvoe Parish Churchyard to-morrow (Saturday) at three p.m.

PRESS OPINION OF CADOXTON COMMONERS. The following note appeared in she South Wales Daily News of Saturday last Those persons who have a legal interest in Cadoxton Common should not be backward in ensuring due recognition of their rights, for those rights, now that the neighbourhood is becoming thickly populated, are very valuable. It is astonishing to learn that only half-a-dozen persons—one or two of whom were "doubt- ful commoners"—attended the meeting on Wednes- day, when the important business of considering the Local Board's action was on foot. Even though there was no intention of hampering the Board, the com- moners should have attended and have put things into proper train. How was the meeting summoned ? It is suggestive of deficiency in respect of publicity to learn that so few attended. No complaint can be made at the privacy of the proceedings, but there ought certainly to have been more persons present. Wasn't it j315,000 that Canton and Ely commoners obtained from Cardiff Corporation? There are chances of pickings, and if the commoners are not on the alert, both their share, and his own will fall to the lot of some "over-lord" who has already done very well out of the unearned increment. The commoners might materi- ally aid the local authority in safeguarding what are really public rights.