the Roman Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, 6 March 1858. Under the leadership of Father Hecker all of these priests immediately formed the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle (Paulist Fathers) in New York, with a rule enjoining poverty and obedience with the obligations of the vows. Hewit took the name in religion of "Augustine Francis". Hewit was chosen to draft the first constitution and laws of this new institute, which aimed to satisfy the aspirations of clerics who desire to lead an apostolic and religious life in community without assuming the canonical responsibilities of the religious state, strictly so called. "Hewit's great scholarship, his balance of judgment, and his intellectual keenness gave to his counsels a weight and maturity that had no little influence in pruning the spirit and traditions of the community." As a Paulist, Father Hewit preferred teaching to giving parish missions, and taught for thirty years in the Paulist scholasticate. He was a frequent contributor to Hecker's Catholic World magazine. On the death of Father Hecker (1888), Hewit was almost unanimously chosen superior general of the institute and held this office until his death. One of his first acts as superior was to pledge the Paulist community to support the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. St. Thomas College for the education of candidates of the institute was accordingly opened in one of the university buildings in 1889. Under his direction, Rev. Walter Elliott, C.S.P., gave the first regular missions to non-Catholics in the United States, and a new foundation of the institute was established in San Francisco. Pope Leo XIII conferred upon him the degree of D.D. as did his alma mater, Amherst College. Hewit died in New York, 3 July 1897 at the age of 76. Works A prolific writer, he was for twenty years one of the foremost Catholic apologists in the United States. In this field he was orthodox, noted for his loyalties to the magisterium of the Church and his agreement with the opinions of the most approved theologians. He wrote nothing that could be styled original; he simply aimed to explain and popularize the teaching of the doctors and saints of the Church. Most of his articles were published in "The Catholic World" and "The American Catholic Quarterly Review"; a few of them are in a volume entitled "Problems of the Age with Studies in St. Augustine on