Such disinterested charity is, indeed, rare; and the efforts made by these religious--the true centres of civilization in Ireland--to promote the education and to improve the moral and intellectual tone of the lower and middle classes, are beyond all praise, combined, as these efforts are, with never-ceasing labour for the spiritual and temporal good of the poor in their respective districts.

Nor should I omit a word for the friends across the wide Atlantic, to whom the very name of Ireland is so precious, and to whom Irish history is so dear.

The Most Rev.Dr.
Purcell, Archbishop of Cincinnati, has pronounced the work to be the only Irish history worthy of the name.

John Mitchel has proclaimed, in the _Irish Citizen_, that a woman has accomplished what men have failed to do; and Alderman Ternan, at a banquet in New Fork, has uttered the same verdict, and declares that there, at least, no other history can compete with ours, although Moore and D'Arcy Magee have preceded us in their efforts to promote the knowledge of what Ireland has been, and the hope of what Ireland may yet become.
M.F.C.
ST.

CLARE'S CONTENT, KENMARK, CO.