tell them how we now, more than ever, stand in need of their assistance. We are exiled from our Monastery by the men who have assumed the reins of government; they have thought fit to discover a social danger in the life and labours of Monks who celebrate the divine mysteries of the year, and spend their time in endeavouring to sanctify their own souls and those of others: in all this, our rulers have seen such peril for our country, that they have violently torn us from our cells and our choir. Thanks to a generous hospitality accorded us by friends, we are enabled to write these lines from Solesmes, but not from our dear Abbey, where resides alone, in his tomb, under the shadow of his own loved Library and Church, the venerated Author of the LITURGICAL YEAR.