CHAPTER XXXI.

THE LEGENDS, THE POPES, AND THE PASQUINADES.

The Manufacture of St. Philomena.--The Canonization of Buddha.--The Courteous Spaniard.--The Miracles of St. Dominic.--Miracles Wrought by Other Saints and Images.--How the Papal Treasury was Filled, and How it was Emptied.--Some Ugly Passages in Papal History.--Pasquino's View of the Pope.--What the Italians Now Think About it.--Few Men and Many Women at the Confessional.--Lord Macaulay, Charles Dickens, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. McCarthy and Nathaniel Hawthorne on the Influence of Romanism.--The New Pope a Good Man, 293