Note 442 — Chapter VII · The Educational Work of the Jesuits in the Nineteenth Century.

The best recommendation for this work is the fact that the French Ministry of Marine had it immediately translated into French. In 1900 there appeared an English and a German work (Bremen and Shanghai) on the same subject, “based on that of J. Algué,” as the preface has it. But as the name of the author is given that of Professor Bergholz. Now this work—it sounds almost incredible—is nothing but an abridged translation of Father Algué’s work. This has quite recently been pointed out by Professor Nippoldt of the Magnetical Observatory of Potsdam, in Petermann’s Mittheilungen, September 1902. (Kölnische Volkszeitung, Wochenausgabe, Oct. 23, 1902, p. 3.) This is evidently a proof of what we said above, p. 154, note 307.