ation of his works, were most active. This enhanced the
value of his sacrifice. Our author thought that Valart had abundantly
proved that Thomas of Kempis was not the author of the Imitation of
Christ; but that he had not proved it to be written by Gersen, the abbot
of Vercelli: he also differed from Valart in his opinion of the general
merit of the works of Thomas of Kempis; his treatises _De Tribus
Tabernaculis_ and _De Vera Compunctione_ (the latter particularly) he
thought excellent.[2]

Footnotes:
1. For this and many other valuable works we naturally look to
Stonyhurst. If the Musae Exulantes,[The title assumed by them, in the
preface to the Latin translation of Cato.] in the swamps of Bruges,
could produce an elegant and nervous translation of Cato, will their
notes be less strong or less sweet in their native land? May we not
expect from Stonyhurst other Petaviuses, other Sirmonds, other
Porees, future Strachans, future Stanleys, future Heskeys, future
Stricklands. If any of them would favor us with a translation of
Father Montreuil's _Vie de Jesus Christ_, he would supply the
English Catholic with the present desideratum of his library, an
interesting and accurate life of Christ. A literary history of the
gospels, showing the state of the text, and the grammatical
peculiarities of their idiom, and containing a short account of the
early versions, would be an invaluable work. The excellent
translation by Mr. Combes, the professor of divinity in St. Edmund's
College, of selected parts of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom,
shows his ability to execute such a work, and leads us to hope it
for him. The mention of these gentlemen naturally makes us reflect
on the singular kindness shown by this country to the foreign
exiles. The editor begs leave to copy what has been said by him on
this subject in a small work entitled _Hors Biblicae_. After
mentioning some of the most splendid of the biblical exertions of
the English, the compiler of that work says, "Yet, useful and
magnificent as these exertions have been, an edition of the New
Testament has lately appeared in this country, which, in one point
of view, eclipses them all. It has been our lot to be witnesses of
the most tremendous revolution that Christian Europe has known: a
new race of enemies to the Christian religion has arisen, and, from
Rome to Hun