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THE

QUARTERLY
REVIEW

VOL. 247.

COMPRISING Nos. 489, 490.

PUBLISHED IN

JULY & OCTOBER, 1926.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.1.

NEW YORK:

LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY

1926

351860

Printed in Great Britain by WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, Limited, London and Beccles.

THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW

No. 489.-JULY, 1926.

Art. 1.-THE ROMAN INDEX OF PROHIBITED BOOKS.

It is characteristic of the methods of discipline in the Roman Church to determine what books its members. may not read. When a work has been placed upon the Index no Roman Catholic may read it without express permission from Rome. The Holy Office and the Congregation of the Index have authority, when the Pope approves, to pronounce sentence on books referred to them. This method has been in use since the Council of Trent. A new edition of the list of prohibited books was published by Leo XIII, in 1900. And additions have been made to the list at intervals since.

A considerable number of English Bishops since the Reformation are on the Index: chiefly those who approximate most to Catholic ideas. None of the Low Church school are consigned to it, with the exception of Archbishop Ussher. And of Anglo-Catholics, neither Archbishop Laud, nor Bishop Andrewes, nor Archbishop Bramhall is condemned. It is not easy to explain the reasons for this omission, particularly in the case of the last mentioned, considering how influential his controversial writings became. The idealist philosopher, Bishop Berkeley, is on the Index: a distinction which he shares with Immanuel Kant. Spinoza and Voltaire, Strauss, Renan and Taine, and Victor Cousin, are there. So are Comte and Mill. Sir Thomas Browne's 'Religio Medici,' Hallam's historical works, and Ranke's 'History of the Popes,' are all prohibited. So is Rosmini's 'Five Wounds of the Church,' a work which Dr Liddon translated and recommended to the attention of AngliVol. 247.-No. 489.

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