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Show BOOK EE VIEWS. I Catholic colleges and convents ought to feel obliged to promote interest in j writers with whom most non-Catholic critics are perforce not in sympathy. We say "most," because the best of the critics have not been insensible of the beauty of the work of such writ-ars writ-ars at Adelaide Procter. Edmund Clarence Clar-ence Stedman, for instance, says that "it is like telling one's beads or reading read-ing a prayer book to turn over her pure pages." Like reading the Psalms, we should say. The Ave Maria. Three or four years ago, when presenting pre-senting to our readers the substance of a pamphlet printed in Manila, en titled "The Civilizers of the Philippines" Philip-pines" we remarked that nowhere else could so much reliable and at that .time greatly demanded information concerning the Church in the islands be found as in this anonymous brochure. bro-chure. But, unfortunately, every means of bringing it into the hands of the general reader had been neglected. neg-lected. Though issued with "the full approbation of the ecclesiastical authority," au-thority," it bore no date or name, not even that of the printer. We urged the immediate publication of a revised edition of thi3 welcome work as the most important service that could be rendered to the cause of truth and religion re-ligion in the archipelaeo. At lone last we have the gratification of announcing announc-ing a reprint of "The Civilizers of the Philippine Islands," which is afforded by Thomas J. Flynn & Co., Boston. It is a much-bleated publication, still a welcome one and deserving of the widest circulation. The Ave Maria. The Rev. J. T. Roche of Fairbury, I Neb., has published an interesting and thought-provoking booklet on "Our Lady of Guadalupe." Our readers are familiar with the details of Mexican devotion at this eminent American shrine of the Blessed Virgin; but all of them will enjoy Father Roche's narrative nar-rative and his incidental criticism of that class of Catholics who are inclined to discredit "everything that pertains to the miraculous.' The Ave Maria. From the Art & Book Co. comes a scholarly pamphlet by the Rev. W. A. Bulbeck, O. S. B., "The Date of the Crucifixion." The general reader will be interested, not so much in Father Bulbeck's process of calculation from the Egyptian Kalendar, as In his .conclusion .con-clusion that "we may honestly take for sra.ni.ea mat cnrist was crucified on April 7, A. D. 30." It may be noted, j however, that the date as computed by Father Matthew Power, S. J., for his recently published "Anglo-Jewish Calendar" is April 27. g Vizetelly, who translated Zola's books into English, has written few-sentiments few-sentiments that we could quote with approval; but some words of his that accompany the French scavenger's last novel furnish another warning against mixed marriages: "Experience "Experi-ence has taught me what, may happen w-hen man and woman do not share me same iaitn; ana how over the most passionate love, the sincerest affection, there may for that reason fall a blighting blight-ing shadow, difficult Indeed to dispel. It is certain that a difference of religious belief fs . a most serious danger" for all who enter tire married state, and that it leads to the greatest misery, the absolute wrecking of many homes." J:t us not scorn the lesson, les-son, eve from one like Vizetelly. Ave Maria. Unless the probabilities fail hopless-ly, hopless-ly, the memoirs of the late M. de Blowitz will be one of the most enjoyable en-joyable volumes of our times. The inner in-ner history of diplomacy is an appe-I appe-I tizing subject, and De Blivitz knew I it better than any man of his genera-I genera-I tion. M. Stephane Lausanne, editor of the Paris Matin, was the adopted son of the great Journalist, and he has written an introductory chapter deal- ! ing with the childhood and youth of De Blowitz. Other interesting chapter chap-ter headings are: "Alphonse XII proclaimed pro-claimed King," "The French 1S75," "The Berlin Congress," "Gam- i betta and Bismarck," "What the Sul- ! tan Told Me," "The Exile of the French Princes ' and "How Eismarck Retired." The Ave Maria. In what is known as the "Pere- nJPrlnter3' BibIe" the Psalmists made to say: "Printers have persecuted perse-cuted me without cause." Few authors who do not employ the typewriter could Jutly make the same complaint s a hieT,lhfe Yho, suffer Persecution at the hands of printers have themselves Iru ame r their reprehensible hahd-JL hahd-JL , w many Persns fail to dot their is and cross their fs! And how few could distinguish their own rZ from Vs or n's from u's! In . many cases, of course, the fault lies with the I compositor orthTproof poet who wrote an "He placed 'mid Dunn-- . mond true," " a'3 a t had reason to romph.j., - k cuted by the print.-,-. wV"5 read: th. "He placed 'mi l D4nr.vn . f mond true." ' BoJ's a t He was an iiri.,:.;.. - '' and instead of i-rav,,. 1")-,Va..a laughed when his .o-' '.',' ;,,,n he j he was asked to ,.'". , " 'Jf'ar I to Dante's boys.-Th'- '.Vo yi'"' 1 |
