WHAT THE WOULD SAYS.

Kumara Times, Issue 445, 28 February 1878, Page 2

WHAT THE WOULD SAYS.

[By Atlas.] The very latest “ Turkish atrocity” is to he seen in Cheapside, where a peripatetic vendor of penny wares is carrying about a trayful of “ Bulgarian ears” made of flesh-coloured india-rubber* and imitating with frightful fidelity, a human ear severed' from a human head. It is the most horrible penny worth I have ever seen. I have sometimes tried to account for the fact why the Times is called by all the French newspapers the journal of the City. My favourite explanation is this : Printing house-square is what in Paris would »>e called a cite—that is, a little square by itself, generally ending in a cul-de-nae. When the French say the journal de la Cite thejr do not mean, or they did not originally mean, the journal of the City of London, but the journal of Printing-house-square, the little square through which there is no thoroughfare.

Critical literature is likely to lose a great deal in consequence of an agitation which has been progressing for some time in Roman Catholic ecclesiastical circles. The contributions of Cardinal Manning, Father Dalgairns, and other learned Catholtcs to some of the eclectic monthlies have given “scandal,” not because of heretical tendencies displayed by any of the writers, but because they are alleged to aid in the diffusion of irreligious opinion by promoting the circulation of the reviews in which they are published. In future no Roman Catholic ecclesiastics will contribute to the Contemporary Review, even in defence of their own views; and their disappearance from print will be due to the strongly expressed opinion of “ superior authorities.”