ON CERTAIN 38012 DIFFICULTIES FELT BY ANGLICANS IN SUBMITTING TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, PRIEST OF THE ORATORY OF ST. PHILIP NERI. "DEFICIENT PUERI ET LABORABUNT, ET JUVENES IN INFIRMI- SECOND EDITION. London: BURNS & LAMBERT, 17, PORTMAN STREET, AND 63, PATERNOSTER ROW. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND WILLIAM BERNARD ULLATHORNE, D.D., O.S.B., BISHOP OF HETALONA, AND VICAR APOSTOLIC OF THE CENTRAL DISTRICT. MY DEAR LORD, In gaining your Lordship's leave to place the following Volume under your patronage, I fear I may seem to the world to have asked what is more gracious in you to grant, than becoming or reasonable in me to have contemplated. For what assignable connexion is there between your Lordship's name, and a work, not didactic, not pastoral, not ascetical, not devotional, but for the most part simply controversial; directed, moreover, against a mere transitory phase in an accidental school of opinion, and for that reason, both in its matter and its argument, only of local interest and ephemeral importance? Such a question may obviously be put to me; nor can I answer it, except by referring to |