our MAGAZINE this month on the life and labors of good Father MacDonald,
lately deceased at Manchester, N. H. The authoress, we learn, is in a
Convent of Mercy in New Orleans.

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Fault has been found with the translation of the late Encyclical letter
of the Pope. Why could not arrangements be made in Rome for an
authentic translation of all such documents for the English-speaking
Catholics throughout the world? We are sure the Vatican would furnish
such a translation if requested by the heads of the Church in America,
Australia, etc. Will the _Catholic Mirror_, who has a correspondent in
the Vatican, see that, in the future, we shall have an authorized
translation for the English-speaking Catholics throughout the world?

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ST. JOSEPH'S ADVOCATE.--The fourth year commences with the January
number, which, we think, is the best issued. The _Advocate_ is devoted
to a record of mission labor among the colored race. The price is only
25 cents a year. Just send 25 cents to Editor _St. Joseph's Advocate_,
51 Courtland St., Baltimore, Md. Here is a notice from the last issue,
which should encourage every Catholic in the country to subscribe not
only for the _Advocate_, but send donations for the conversion of our
colored brethren. "What thoughtfulness and charity, all things
considered, for the Most Rev. Archbishop of Boston to send ten dollars
to this publication! The gift was, indeed, a surprise, total strangers
as we are personally to his Grace and without any application or
reminder, directly or indirectly, beyond the public appeal in our last,
suggested by similar kindness on the part of two esteemed members of the
Hierarchy! Will not others follow suit? What if our every opinion is not
endorsed, so long as faith and morals are safe in our hands, and
promoted in quarters _never reached before_ by the Catholic press. Let
it be remembered that the sphere in which we move is traversed in every
direction by a non-Catholic press, white and colored, the latter alone
claiming from one hundred to one hundred and thirty periodicals edited
and published by colored men who have naturally a monopoly of their own
market. Is the first Catholic voice ever heard in that chorus to be
hushed when those very men welcome us, quote us, thank us, actually
watch the point of the pen lest it wound Catholic feelings, employ the
most emphatic terms to attest our sin