t exception. He does the same by
Chateaubriand, and the _Arabian Nights_, and _Don Quixote_--the first as
Protestant, the second as insufficiently Catholic, the third as no
Christian, the fourth as of no religion at all. One unhappy writer of
school-books is condemned because he cites Guizot and Thierry; another
because he blames the massacres of Saint Bartholomew, and thinks they were
caused by "religious fanaticism." But first of all, and more than all, the
bishop condemns "that irreligious" Parisian journal, _La Presse_. "The
number of its subscribers is deplorable; but they are becoming and shall
become less; no priest must subscribe to it. No priest must be seen with
it. No priest must 'ordinarily' read it." This is all very proper,
according to antecedents, but we should not like it if Bishop Hughes
deprived us of the _Tribune_, the _Herald_, or the _Journal of Commerce_,
all of which are as bad, in the same way, as the _Presse_. Another example
of the prohibition of books, we add from the cyclic letter just issued by
Cardinal Lambruschini, condemning Professor Nuytz's works on
ecclesiastical law:

"And further, although we derive great consolation from the
promise of Jesus Christ, that the gates of hell shall never
prevail against the Church, our soul cannot but feel excruciating
pain, upon considering how daring outrages against divine and
sacred things daily flow from the unbridled licentiousness, the
perverse effrontery and impiety of the press. Now in this
pestilence of corrupt books which invades us on all sides, the
work entitled _Institutes of Ecclesiastical Law_, by John Nepomue
Nuytz, Professor in the Royal University of Turin, as also the
work entitled _Essays on Ecclesiastical Law_, by the same author,
claim a conspicuous place, inasmuch as the doctrines contained in
the said nefarious works are so widely disseminated from one of
the chairs of that university, that uncatholic theses selected
from them are proposed as fit subjects for discussion to
candidates aspiring to the doctor's degree. For in the above
mentioned works and essays, such errors are taught under the
semblance of asserting the rights of the priesthood and of the
secular power, that instead of sound doctrines, thoroughly
poisoned cups are offered to youth. For the said author hath not
blushed to reproduce under a new form, in his impious propositions