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THE CONTENTS

Letters of Lord Acton

1.	Lord Acton associated with Mr Richard Simpson in the management of the Rambler—Not to be the organ of any one school of thought The true notion of a Christian State Reviewing	Page 1
2.	Acton's attitude towards "converts"— Manning and Hope—Need of saying new and startling things Foreign politics and English journals	Page 8
3.	Buckle's History of Civilization Newman and the Rambler	Page 11
4.	Wiseman's Last Four Popes—Rambler article a special gratification to the Cardinal Buckle's History superficial	Page 12
5.	Meeting of writers at Aldenham—Buckle to be "thoroughly shown up—"Dalgairns' pamphlet on Mystics	Page 14
6.	Desires a series of critical articles Some subjects suggested	Page 15
7.	A journey to Paris—Buckle and the Quarterly—A French translation of Döllinger—Simpson's paper on Brownson—Gladstone on Homer—Meynell and his Bishop—Origen against Celsus	Page 17
8.	Simpson's article on Buckle—English philosophic systems—Carlyle—The Simancas papers about Mary Stuart	Page 20
9.	Donoso Cortes—Theology not a stationary science—New materials for the life of St Charles Borromeo—Healy Thompson's life of the saint	Page 23
10.	Dr Maguire on the Analecta—Merits of Jaffe's great work	Page 26
11.	Danger of dislike of prayer—A warning against intellectual contempt of fellow-Catholics—Döllinger's commonsense exposition of doctrine	Page 29
12.	Acton's paper on "Buckle"—Proposed union of the Dublin with the Rambler—The Atlantis	Page 30
13.	The editing and publishing of the Dublin Review—Rambler and Dublin to run together—Döllinger's visit to England	Page 32
14.	More negotiations for the Dublin—Dutch pamphlets at the Hague—A passage "likely to offend"	Page 33
15.	Dollinger in London—St Augustine—Simpson on Original Sin	Page 34
16.	Eckstein's paper on Guizot—"Combe's Phrenology" and "William Harrington"—Carlyle's Frederick II of Prussia	Page 36
17.	Döllinger on "The Paternity of Jansenism"—State of theological studies in England Newman's approval	Page 37
18.	Union of the Dublin and the Rambler still discussed—Proposal that Newman shall have the direction—Simpson's letter to the Cardinal	Page 38
19.	Montalembert—Simpson's philosophy—A review of Carlyle	Page 40
20.	Montalembert's condemnation—Simpson on Whewell—Plan of uniting with the Dublin abandoned—Proposed "quartering" of the Atlantis	Page 42

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