CONTENTS. The great Event on Passion Sunday, 1873, Sonnets-On the Consecration of Ireland to the Sacred Heart, Passion Ephesus. By J. S. C., . The Two Muleteers of Mollares. A Spanish Tale. By D. F. Mac Carthy, M.R.I.A. Occasional Sketches of Irish Life. No. II.-The Vagrant, The Human Affections in the Early Christian Time. By Aubrey de Vere, The Island of the Sacred Heart, Jack Hazlitt. By the Author of " Ailey Moore." Chapters II. and III., Lectures by a Certain Professor. I.-About Day-Dreams, Jack Hazlitt. An Irish Tale. By the Author of " Ailey Moore." Chapter IV. Showing how things went on in Covent-Garden Market twenty years ago; how Lowry M'Cabe saw three gentlemen from America at Mr. Grogan's stall, and rather against their will renewed his ac- quaintance with two of them afterwards. Chapter V.-Showing what took Lelia Moran to Mount-street, and how she sang "The Song of Jack Hazlitt. An Irish Tale. By the Author of "Ailey Moore." Chapter VI.-Showing how Jack Hazlitt and his Companions make a Voyage to New York, and how Jack Hazlitt makes some unprofitable acquaint- The Two Muleteers of Mollares. From the Spanish of Fernan Caballero. A Sketch of the Life of the late Father Henry Young, of Dublin. By Lady The Earthly Tabernacle. By Aubrey de Vere, 241 Jack Hazlitt. An Irish Tale. By the Author of "Ailey Moo:e." Chapter VIII.—Showing how Mr. Eardley Wood became acqnainted with The Two Muleteers of Mollares. From the Spanish of Fernan Caballero. By D. F. Mac Carthy, M.R.I.A. Chapters VIII., IX., and X., The Uses of Hope, and the Pleasures of Adversity. By one of the Writers To S. M. S., on receiving from her a Drawing of St. Stanislaus, - . The Two Muleteers of Mollares. From the Spanish of Fernan Caballero. By D. F. Mac Carthy, M.R.I.A. Concluded, The Mother of Grace Divine, A Sketch of the Life of the late Father Henry Young, of Dublin. By Lady Jack Hazlitt. An Irish Tale. By the Author of " Ailey Moore." Chapters X. and XI.-Showing three Important Things—a History, a Dinner CATHOLIC IRELAND. JULY, 1873. OUR AIMS AND HOPES. N the Feast of the Adorable Heart of Jesus, to which sion Sunday of this year of grace 1873, this Irish Monthly Magazine of religious literature enters on the discharge of its holy functions as a memorial and remembrancer of that national Consecration. If a human soul were in the first instant of its existence conscious of that existence and capable of understanding all the momentous issues involved therein for time and for eternity, how sublime and how awful would be for such a soul that first thrill of life! To-day "CATHOLIC IRELAND" begins what we hope and pray may prove a long and useful life devoted to the service of the Faith and the Fatherland after which it is named; and those who are responsible for its career feel deeply and intensely the importance, nay the holiness and solemnity, of the work before it. It begins its work, however, with great confidence in the sacred power of the name it has dared to assume, and of the objects it aspires to promote; with great confidence, also, in the rich, unused resources of many kinds which Catholic Ireland can devote to such an enterprise. Catholic Ireland! The phrase has been used often, and will (if God bless our endeavours) be henceforth still more "familiar in our mouths." It is a glorious boast, but, thanks be to God, it is not a false or an empty boast—it is a boast put forward now in no vain or idle spirit—that no |