BOOK NOTICES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 28 January 1898, Page 20

BOOK NOTICE S.

The Statutes of New Zealand. This book, which is handsomely printed, gives the various Acts passed by the New Zealand Parliament during the year 181)7. We find that 'M public Acts were passed during the two sessions, 14 local and personal Acts, and one private Act (.the Hawera Gasworks and Electric Lighting). Our Alma Mat/ r. This has grown into a handsome and interesting publication, containing a page for every week of the year, without counting the full-page illustrations, of which there are several. It is brought out by the boys of St. Ignatius' College, lliverview, Sydney, and abounds in illustrations, and in topics which will be found interesting not merely to the present students and the '• old boys," but likewise to the general reader. The editoi-3 and the printer have alike done their work well, i>nd Our Aiwa Muti r rcllects credit on everyone concerned in its publication. Such publications as issue from the Wellington and ltiverview Catholic colleges should go far to cultivate among their students that literary taste and that habit of reading which should count among the best safeguards of young men in their after careers in the world. The Wunder-Worlier of Padua. By Cuaui.es Wauhen Stoddahd. A vc Maria Press. We have learned to expect much of a book when we find on its title-page the imprint of the Ayr Ma via. Also do we look for every grace and charm of style when we find that our old favourite, Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard, is the author. The book before us is creditable alike to author and publisher. It is a reprint of a seiies of charming papers which appeared in the pages ot that brightest and most captivating of all our exchanges, the Art Maria, and its publication in more permanent form is sure to effect much good ■unong its readers. We have seldom read such a happy presentment of the lile of a saint in such brief compass, for the book runs into only 11>1 page«. Arid yet Mr. Warren Stoddard has contrived, within that space, to delineate, with his usual charm of stjlc, pnut-.cally e% cry varied phase of the many-sided lite of his sainted hero. He shows us St. Anthony in his sorrows, in his joys, and glory ; Anthony as the novice, the Augustinian canon, the preacht r, the lictcr. the mystic, the wonder-worker, the upholder ot Catholic truth against heretical error. We have nothing but words of prai c tor the Efforts made by the Are Maria to supply Catholics with pure and wholesome and elevating literature, and cordially commend this unpretentious but interesting little volume to every Catholic hou-e-hold. Mr. Warren won his literary spurs in his fascinating but terrible book on the len< rs of Molokai. V\ c hope to see further is ue from his prolific pen.