PUBLICATIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 19, 11 May 1899, Page 20

PUBLICATIONS.

THE CATHOLIC TEUTH SOCIETY. «, . I Chesterfield wrote to his son : 'We should choose an 'antler as we would a friend. - Books are, indeed, our friends or f >es. They do us either good or har.n. They improve or corrupt. They either waste our time or enable us to employ it to advantage.' With the multitude of mere time-wusters.and of the books that are real foes ot the household, it is always refreshing to be able to drop across a series ot publications which can be recommended almost blindfold, so to speak, as safe, instructive, and entertaining reading for the Catholic home, buck are the publications of the Catholic Truth boeiety. They embrace so wide and diversified a range of subjects as nuti-m, biography, history, Scripture. "theology,- and up-to-date exposition and deienoe of every phasa of Catholic thought and principle that are brougnt into prominence by the current of passing political or religious controversy. Th«se publications represent t c bram-work of the foremost ifia-lish Casholio writers- of the day, and are, sold at prices which place them within reach of r he- poorest household. - The bound volumes of the series— which are very numerous— should find an honoured place in every Catholic home, on every school-prize list, and' on the shelves of our parochial and boarding-school libraries. They are procurable through all the booksellers that advertise in our columns. The latest batch of the C.T.S. publications which we have received includes nos. 21-25 • of the fifth series of Lady Herbert's Wayside Tales. Each number contains onevcomplete tale (32 pp Id) L fl ad y Herbert's Wa V side TaUt fulfil the'grand desideratum of works .of fiction suitable for the home and the parochial library : they are sufficiently moral to elevate, and sufficiently clever to be read with intellectual profit. The same remark applies to the Catholic's library of. Tales, issued by the same Society, of which no. 29 (Aunt Marcia s Conversion, 32 pp., Id) is to hand. The fifth and previous series of both these publications are also to be had handsomely bound m cloth. (Is). For Catholic parents and teachers they should afford a pleasant relief from the ephemeral rubbish with which children are so often permitted to choke their minds. Two kindred lives have been added to the Sooiety's Biographical Series. One of these is The Priest of the Eucharist, a sketch of the life of the Very Rev. Peter J. Bymard, founder of the Society of the Moss Holy Sacrament. Lady Herbert is the author of this compactsketch (96 pp., 6d). It is a very tender and appreciative sketch of the character, teaching, and work of the venerable French ecclesiastic who passed to his reward in 1868, after having realised the ideal of his life m leaving behind him a religious congregation of- men banded together tpexalt the Eucharistic reign of our Lord on earth. The life-work of Mother Mary Teresa Dubouche", foundress of the Congregation of Expiatory Adoration, had a somewhat similar scope. .Her simple life-story of love of the Blessed Lord is sweetly told by Bdith Ranouf.(24 pp., Id). Although only 36 years have" passed away since Mother Mary's death, her little cqngregation keeps spreading in France; and is expected to soon make its appearance in England. _ We have also received VOI3. xxxviii and xxxix of the C.T.S. publications, handsomely bound in blue cloth, gold-lettered (Is). They are, as usual, full of meat, and contain a great variety of suitable reading for the domestic fireside, and even for the priest's library desk. Vol. xxxviii contains, among other capers already noticed in our columns, U complete rxtksu'e of the fclattery noPopery lecturers who are now preaching their gospel of filth in Australia. ~ .

A number of charming little waistcoat-pocket booklets (Id) have also been issued, including a Treatise on Meditation, admirably suited for the hurried bubiness man, the Maxims of ' Messed Sebastian Valfre, &c. IVhat -is Benediction, and 1 60 Straight to Christ, will be found very useful both to' Catholic and Pfbteaian^. The late Fanner Bridged* jLrt of -Lying '(16 pp., Id) is a scathing reply to the familiar eets ofmanip'ulated quotations which the cheap and nasty kind of Protestant' controversialist is in the habit of flingiujf at Catholics on the supposed authority of St. Liguori'a Glories of Mary. " After reading Father Sydney Smith's Dr. Horton on Catholic Truthfulness (5.> p., 3>l) one is inclined to.regard Dr. Horton's coarse sla:."der as alnio«c afelUculpa, bince it has produced such an admirable v exp(Mitioi)'(»f Catholic iJoutrine regarding lying, equivocation menial reservation, fc.j. Mr. Britten's Method* of a Protestant Controcer^i'iliat (Df-Hurton)^ one of the most complete and thoroughgoing exposure-* we have seen for many a day ot the wretched- and dishonourable subterfuges resorted to by even a man of Dr. Horton's standing, when ho casts in/his lot with the -noisy fraternity of- the no-Popei-y party. ' ' ■> . , .