BOOK REviEWS 851 tion what parts of the text were only restored. In 1959 Van Hoesen and I republished the Greek text, dated the horoscope to A. D. 858, and showed that one essential restoration was wrong.7 Now, in 1971 we have a new version in Fig. 80 (p. 871): the direction of the inscriptions are all placed radial, the letters N (inverted) and H are interchanged at random, restorations are not indicated, and Jupiter is back at the wrong place. BroW'f/, University Providence, Rhode Ialand 0. NEUGEBAUER Oreatea A. Brownaon'a Road to Catholicism. By PER SVEINO. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget and New York: Humanities Press, 1970. Pp. 889. $II.50. Per Sveino's book, which had its genesis in 195~-58 at Harvard University with the advice and encouragement of Professor Kenneth Murdock and the late Perry Miller, is in many ways a useful and valuable study. Yet it also has deficiencies in organization and exposition that in tum contribute to its inconclusiveness on issues that seem to me central to Sveino's whole enterprise. One reason for the book's importance is that its topic remains one of the fascinating and challenging aspects of Orestes Brownson's career-the intellectual odyssey that led to his conversion, at age 41, to the Catholic Faith. The very fact that as a Protestant clergyman, journalist, and editor in the 1880's and early 1840's he was one of the leading spokesmen for liberal Christian thought and for Transcendentalism made his conversion on October ~0, 1844, one of the most significant-along with Newman'sin the 19th century. It can also be said that in view of Brownson's emphasis for so many years on Christianity as primarily a gospel of social progress, his conversion in the reign of the very pope, Gregory XVI, who condemned Lammenais, seemed to many a surprising volte-face. Granted that much has already been written on Brownson's conversion, a further value in the book arises from Sveino's diligent research in many of Brownson's essays and reviews, especially those of the late ~O's and the SO's that were not included in Brownson's collected works, and have not, to my knowledge, been previously used by scholars in so full a way. While the evidence Sveino gathers from these sources does not lead to important revisions of what we already know, it does help to establish confidence in ' Jupiter in Gemini instead of in Can~er. 85~ BOOK REVIEWS the thoroughness of his research of primary materials. In short, while Brownson's son Henry, in the three-volume biography, and more recently Schlesinger and Maynard, have all dealt in some detail with the intellectual foundations of Brownson's conversion, no one, except Brownson himself in The Convert (1857) , has devoted an entire book to the subject and no one has previously dealt with the subject in such detail. The organization of the book is chronological, covering the period from Brownson's birth in Stockbridge, Vermont, to his conversion in Boston in 1844, with only brief treatment at the end of some aspects of his subsequent career. In his first six chapters Sveino traces Brownson's development from his earliest years up to the year 1834 when he accepted an invitation to become preacher and minister to the Unitarian congregation in Canton, Mass., a few miles from Boston, a move which brought him into association with the group of writers and religious leaders who were developing the movement soon to be known as Transcendentalism. While there is little that is new in these chapters, they do serve to place in sharper focus Brownson's early religious history as he successively turns from Presbyterianism, to Universalism, then, abandoning Universalism, becomes for a brief period an independent minister before accepting a call to the Unitarian pulpit in Walpole, New Hampshire, where he remains from 1832-1834. This is a period in which Brownson combines a career as editor and journalist with that of preacher and Protestant minister. It is also a time when his interpretation of Christianity takes on an ever stronger social dimension until he finally acknowledges that his main concern is with...