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Show DEGRADATION OF SCHOLARSHIPS. The ( 'cnadian port and essayist. Dr. Thomas O U::rrr.r. has added very much to his reputation for ! !."".-!!') by his latest publication. "Essays, !.;i;r;: ;. (ritie.-d jukI Historical." Dr. OTIagan is ! :::;ajiau by' birth, ami was educated in ihe '";;HVf ' i'.ii universities of his native land, lie made p -st-graduate course at the Lou vain Uni-versity. Uni-versity. Chrjuni, and crossing south into France, completed a splendid academic training at the University Uni-versity f Grenoble, rnfortuiiatoly for literature, In I?b..rs and his great talents have not sought a whY- field than the Dominion, and, as yet. his publications pub-lications have hern limited to his own country. Dr. O'llagan's latest work, published a few weeks in Toronto. Canada, embodies a series I of rss-vs en vital and very interesting subjects, in- hv!':: "The Study and Interpretation of Lit-e-'ti "The Degradation of Scholarship,'' "The Krnaivan.0 mul the Topes of Avignon"; "A St-:dy of Tennyson's 'Princes,'" etc. In his - :!v'':i "Poetry and J Iistory-Tcaching Falsehood," lnf la"n of his criticism unsparingly, and .vj-l!y. we are satisfied, on the backs of Professors ih-Mchrr and Schwill of the notorious and richly c:m'v.-(,1 Chicago University. "T!i"re is but one Chicago University in the w r.!' writes Dr. OTIagan. "and we might expect its distinguished professors of medieval and modern Ferupean history to understand at least the elementary ele-mentary truths of the Catholic church and some-ilvn-r of its spirit and policy' The essayist then rtt;-eks Thatcher and Schwill's "General History f Europe."' and throws the calcium light of his rilieal acumen on the bigotry and falsehood of the IJ.;io:-y and the men who compiled the intolerant a: : i lying work. "It is enough," the doctor continues, "to say t!mt tli.? professors' work is teeming with historical ur;1,.jf(, .,, p-ross misrepresentations of the C:.t:i-.!ie church and her institutions." The essayist pr've Li- contentions and rules the plaintiffs and ' '.:' r case out of court. While comparatively a young man. Dr. OTIagan h;'- been a vohwninous and facile writer. His "Can-nn::r; "Can-nn::r; Kay." "Studies in Poetry." "In Dream-l-i:I." -Song- of i he Settlement." etc.. have de-sr-rv.-Jly won for him n conspicuous place among the many scholarly and brilliant men. the young D-.'-inion has given to literature. The handsome volume is issue.! from the William Briggs Publishing Publish-ing llouo. Toronto, and sustains the reputation of the linn for accuracy and mechanical excellence. |