'Mr Hard, What You Want Is To Read Some Books On Catholicism.' And Hard, Who Was On The Point Of Being Received Into The Church As The Final Solution Of Human Difficulties, Thought It Would Be A Very Good Thing To Instruct His Mind Before Baptism.

So he gave the priest a note to a bookseller whom an American friend had told him of; and this American friend had said:

'You will find Mr Fingle (for such was the bookseller's name) a hard-headed, honest, business man. He can say a _plain thing in a plain way.'_

'Here,' said Mr Hard to the priest, 'is ten pounds. Send it to this bookseller Fingle and he shall choose books on Catholicism to that amount, and you shall receive them, and I will come and read them here with you.'

So the priest sent the money, and in four days the books came, and Mr Hard and the priest opened the package, and these were the books inside:

_Auricular Confession:_ a History. By a Brand Saved from the Burning.

_Isabella; or, The Little Female Jesuit._ By 'Hephzibah'.

_Elisha MacNab:_ a Tale of the French Huguenots.

_England and Rome._ By the Rev. Ebenezer Catchpole of Emmanuel, Birmingham.

_Nuns and Nunneries._ By 'Ruth', with a Preface by Miss Carran, lately rescued from a Canadian Convent.

_History of the Inquisition._ By Llorente.

_The Beast with Seven Heads; or, the Apocalyptical Warning._

_No Truce with the Vatican._

_The True Cause of Irish Disaffection._

_Decline of the Latin Nations._

_Anglo-Saxons the Chosen Race,_ and their connexion with the Ten Lost Tribes:

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