Forebear of the Home and Foreign Review and beacon for enlightened Catholics, the Rambler displayed devotion to its church's journalism.

1. [?Capes, J. M]. “Preface.” 3 (1848–49): iii–vi.

Recommitted the Rambler to political impartiality, the “strictest decorum of language,” and a resistance to “offensive” personalization.

2. Our Own Correspondent [J. S. Northcote]. “Roman Intelligence: Agitation in the City – Attempted Assassination of Father Hearne, of Manchester.” 3 (1848–49): 39–41.

Selected the Epoca, Contemporaneo, and Giornale Romano as the “radical journals” of Rome.

3. [Capes, J. M.]. “The Duties of Journalists – Catholic and Protestant Education.” 3 (1848–49): 325–31.

Confessed that no periodical was always accurate in its facts, judgments, taste, and even “positive morality.”

4. “Barham's Life of Theodore Hook.” 3 (1848–49): 365–67.

Review of R. H. Barham's book recollected that Hook's “daring and witty personalities in the John Bull newspaper made even its hopeless Toryism brilliant and entertaining.” John Bull was “a phenomenon in the annals of newspapers.” It was selling 10,000 copies weekly by its sixth number and in its first year realized a profit of 4,000 pounds.

5. [?Capes, J. M.]. “Macaulay's History of England.” 3 (1848–49): 420–33.

Paralleled T. B. Macaulay's style in the captioned work and his Edinburgh Review essays.

6. [Capes, J. M.]. “The Fourth Estate.” 3 (1848–49): 471–77.

Maintained that the nineteenth-century press, notably in England, France, Germany, and the United States, was the “supreme authority” because it had the “practical power to control every other authority in a state.”