Note 1 — THE MAN OF FORTY CROWNS.

Victor Hugo in his poem, Christ at the Vatican, (translated by G.B. Burleigh,) rebukes this inhuman spirit of monkish greed and avarice, which always receives but neves gives in return. In the poem, Christ is represented as saying:

"——I have said, 'I will have mercy and not sacrifice;'— Have said, 'Give freely what, without a price, Was given to you.' To my redeemed, instead, You sell baptism upon their natal bed; Sell to the sinner void indulgences; To lovers sell the natural right to wed; Sell to the dying the privilege of decease, And sell your funeral masses to the dead! Your prayers and masses and communions sell; Beads, benedictions, crosses; in your eyes Nothing is sacred,—all is merchandise."—E.