Rise and Progress of Universities and Benedictine Essays: Benedictine EssaysRise and Progress of Universities and Benedictine Essays contains a selection of publications from the middle (1854 56) and late (1858 59) periods of John Henry Newman's association with the Catholic University of Ireland. The Rise and Progress of Universities consists of the twenty articles first published in the Catholic University Gazette from 1854 56. The last two essays of this volume, the Benedictine Essays, originally appeared in The Atlantis.