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Show Our Eiterary Cable. OUR MOTHER'S JUP.IL.E. ' ,r,v-c world, deep-wrapped in cloud mistis dark, saw naught to light its gloomy night: en lo! from out the darkness gleamed . star that thrilled the earth with light. Thou herald star of purity. Foreshadowing the glorious sun. Thy splendor.' uneclir.ed. foretells The advent of the Promised One. O Mary, bright star. All pure and serene. Thy ri-diance caught From divinity's gleam Thrilled heavenly courts Ere thy marvelous birth. And with heaven-born joys Has gladdened old earth. High 0 er the shadows -gloom, thy rays Revealed the noontide's splendor bright; fJeneath thy gently-throbbing beams Earth's fairest flowers re-oned to light. But thou, the fairest of them all. Doest ehine a peerless lily white. AVithin whose stainless chalice pure Reposed the world's redeeming light. O hope-laden flower! Fair mystical rose. Whose heart's crystal depths All treasures enclose. With joyanee innired, ' ' Thy children proclaim. In glad, swelling hymns Thy Immaculate fame. Lot fifty golden years have flown Since heaven and earth in unison Proelaimed our Mother's title rrand: Conceived alone the stainless one. Today thy children o'er the world , Their prayerful homage watt to tflc-e. On wings of love. glad paean rw To sound thy golden jubilee. O Mother, all fair. Immaculate Queen! Our life's guiding star ' . WIiopo radiance Ferene Shines bright 'mid the gloom Of earth's darkened ways; All heaven joins earth In sounding thy praise. MARY DONAOHYR. Clares '04, Si?red Heart Academy. Ogden. Utah. "A Comprehensive Catalogue of Catholics Rooks in the English and German Language " has just been issued by the Volksfreund Press. Buffalo. N. Y. "To get CathoMcs to read Catholic book, and thus to en-couragt en-couragt Cathoiic writers and publishers i. the purpose of thtf catalogue." says Bishop Colton in a neat preface. In the flood of calendars and annuals pouring in for 1905. we catch one peculiarly appropriate for the children. chil-dren. Every day has its saint, to remind the young of the communion of saints in heaven with the militant mili-tant church on earth. Pretty pictures and pretty rtories about "The King iihd the Geese," and Such like tales. Benztger Bros., New York, Cincinnati. Chicago, Price 10 cents. "The Ruler of the Kingdom" appears to be a collection collec-tion of stories written by a woman for other women, in which the girl turned 14 and getting her first taste of fiction would also take an interest. Grace Keon is the author. The book is dedicated to her mother. That act of filial love indicates that the author's literary liter-ary strength lie in the elucidation of affection. Ben-ziger Ben-ziger Bros., New York, Cincinnati, Chicago. Price 51.23. The feast of the Immaculate Conception brings out ! a little book appropriate as to time and instructive in all particulars of a dogma of faith defined fifty years ago and removed from the realm of speculative doubt. "The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary" is the able work of Rev. A. A. Lambing, Lam-bing, LL. D.. author of several other books in the teaching style of discourse.'. Chapter vii is interesting, as it is a review of the importunities and urgent appeals ap-peals for a dogmatic definition from many Catholic rulers, prelates and communities, besides giving information in-formation of the old controversy between the Franciscans Fran-ciscans and Dominicans. Benziger Bros., New York. Cincinnati, Chicago. Price. 3," cents. f "The Carthusians in England" opens up the first chapter , in the Rosary Magazine for December. The Counters de Comson writes entertainingly of a visit to the monastery of these French exiles in the fairest part of Sussex. The Parkminster property upon v.-hich the Carthusians have built their monastery was i bought thirty years ago by "La Grande Chartruse" to provide a refuge for themselves and their conti- nental brethren in case of emergency. Evidently these thrifty monks had an interior revelation of what was to take place in Masonic France of today. Illustration.? Illustra-tion.? of ecclesiastical buildings upon the English property go along with the story. - The other articles of the Rosary'Magazine appear to turn up with seasonable fitness, for instance "The Coming of the Magi." suggesting Christmastide. The article of chief value, however, is on "The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception." by Rev. D. G. Kennedy. O. P., master of Sacred Theology. |