2483 Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany, by Jonathan Sperler (read 17 Jan 1993) This book did not live up to my expectations. It did talk some about missions, pilgrimages, and processions, but most of its time is spent on political events, or elections involving Catholics. The time is mainly from 1830 to 1880, and shows that in Westphalia and the north Rhineland the Catholics became better Catholics during that time. But not one word in the book about my great-great-uncle Franz Hitze, or about emigration to America (my maternal grandparents emigrated from Westphalia in 1874 and 1885). ( )