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Show The Book That Most Influenced Him. rii- uanu Lurnand, the Catholic editor of Punch, who was lecently knighted, is, of course, a professional joker. While not a controversialist, he has, in his own genial way, done much to dissipate anti-Catholic prejudice preju-dice in England. The Ave Maria relates, re-lates, as an instance, that he once wrote a short article on "Books that Have Most Influenced Me," in which he gravely set forth that the book that had most influenced him was one that he had nfer reaL It was a treatise on the Blessed Virgin, purchased by young Burnand without any special purpose An iriate college official ap-Pioriatd ap-Pioriatd it as an evil Popish thing, and' sent the young man to a learned .Anglican bishop t; be set right in his f.-;th The good man expounded the I -. -.i vipi ;r.fr finished, said:; "Now I will explain the Roman ..ii uu: replied Burnand. . "I will g to a Roman for that" He called on Cardinal Manning Man-ning and was shortly after received into 'the church. And so it was really no juke when Burnand said that the book which had most influenced him . was one he had never read. |