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Show Woman Against Woman. Of late the firm of Harper Brothers has given proof of a desire tp make amends for former offenses against the law of justice and charity by publishing, publish-ing, Catholic works of real interest and value. We give the eminent firm the amplest credit for its good intentions in this regard, but at the same time, in duty, object to its putting forward . ' literature bearing upon religious suh- jects without exercising that en re which is essential to the preservation of a reputation that represents monetary mone-tary value, now that "Harper's" has a large circle of Catholic readers. A very bad break it has made in allowing allow-ing a poem on "Margaret of Cortonn." by Editor Wharton, to appear in its pages this month. The subject of tlv rhapsody is a saint of our Church, ranking like Magdalen. She had been a sinner, but repented of her sin as truN.- qo Hirl fa crlal.-n nnd snenr twenty-three years of her later lif-atoning lif-atoning for her early misdeeds by th- mcst bitter self-discipline and devotion to God. She had been deceived by a man she loved, and this was her sole lapse; but Edith Wharton represents her as a common drab, and as oscillating oscillat-ing in her dying hours between love of her Saviour and love of her paramour. How is it that when anything especially especial-ly shocking to our spiritual and moral sense comes to our observation it is a ; woman's hand which generally inflicts the blow at least in modern days? This is a psychological mystery. Catholic Cath-olic Standard and Times. |