N looking through my correspondence files, I find I have received applications by post from various parts of the United Kingdom, every week since I began the delivery of the lectures now printed in Rome in Ireland, asking me if I intended to publish some particular one of them separately in pamphlet form. It is largely, though not entirely, in deference to a public wish so generally expressed that this book now appears.

I had always intended to publish the addresses at some time or other. The delivery of them formed an agreeable recreation amid the continuous labour entailed in writing Priests and People in I reland, and the still more exacting duties imposed by the large work, now approaching completion, upon which I am still engaged.

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