Introduction.

The following pages are re-printed from the Whitehall Review, and give the better-known Names of those who have returned to the Catholic Church; and likewise a series of Aiticles bearing on the question of these Conversions The publication has attracted a good deal of attention in England and has been the subject of a considerable amount of newspaper correspondence. Amongst other writers, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone says, "I "am glad they are to be published in the form of a Pamphlet; for "good, according to some, or for evil according to others, they "form as a group an event of much interest and significance."

It has been thought that the re-publication here in a complete form would not be without interest even to those who are not of the Catholic Church, inasmuch as it marks an important phase of that great intellectual movement that has taken place in England during the past forty years, and which has given Catholicism some of the most profound Scholars and sincere Christians of modern times.

To the Catholic reader the perusal of the list must be attended with special interest, as in it are to be found the names of many who now hold the most exalted positions in the Hierarchy of the Church, and who have been won over to her side by the steady light of truth, which has been in all ages and is the triumphant witness of her divine origin.