SOME CATHOLIC NOVELISTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 44, 1 November 1900, Page 19

SOME CATHOLIC NOVELISTS.

As many of the works of fiction published nowadays are not by any any means suitable reading for young people, it will interest our readers to know that there are plenty ot Catholic writers from whose works a selection can be made. The London lablit has taken the following from a single page of a by no means exhaustive libt — Mi. F. Marion Crawford, with his ' Marzio'a Crucifix ' ; Mr. Bernard Capes, with 'Our Lady of Darkness' ard Miss Dorothea Gerard, with 'Angela's Lover.' Later on Jlitp Ell *I) Aruy supplies ' i'he Bishop's Dilemma'; Mr. W. C. Scully ' Between Sun and Sand'; Mrs. E M L-,noh, 'The Hoy God '; Mrs. Parr, ' Can this be Love?' Mr. Frank Mithew, "The Spanish Wine"; Mi-s Adeline Sergeant, •The Common Lot'; Miss Katharine Tynan, 'The Dear Irish Girl'; Mrs. de la Pasture, " Deborah of Tods'; Dr. Conan Doyle, ' A Duet';' Mrs. M. E. Francis (known to her Iricnds as Mrs. Francis Blundell)'

'The Duenna of a Genius'; Mr. Dziewicki (a Polish author who writei in English), ' Entombed in Flesh '; Mr. F. C. Burnand, ' My Time and What I've Done with it'; Lady Gilbert, ' The Wicked Woods'; Mihs Clara Mulholland, 'The Miser of King's Court ' ; Mrs. Craigie ('John Oliver Hobbes '), ' The School for Saints'; Mr. Fitzgerald Molloy, 'His Wife's Soul'; 'George Egerton,' 'Keynotes'; Mr. George Moore, ' Evelyn Innes ' ; Miss Jean Middleuiass, lln Storm nnd Strife ' ; Mr. Max Pemberton, ' Kronstadt ' ; Mrs. Clement Shorter, ' The Father Confessor ' : Mr. Edmund Downey, ' The Land Smeller " ; Mr. Clement Scott. ' Madonna Mia ' . Mr. J. S. Fletcher, < T»i« Making of Matthias' ; Mr. A. a'Beckett, 'The Modern Adam ' ; Sir Hubert Jerningham, ' Monsieur Paulot ' ; Mis« Forbes Kobert«or, ' Odd Stories' • Miss Ida Taylor. ' Vice Valentine ' ; Mrs. Ward, ' One Poor Scruple ' ; Miss Florence Marryat. ' A Passing Madness ' ; Mrs. Charlotte Anne, 'A Woman of Moods'; Mr. Hugh Clifford, ' Since the Beginning ' ; Mr. Justin M Carthy, ' The Three Disgraces ' ; Mrs. Colson Kernahan, ' Trewinnot of Guy's ' ; Father William Barry, 'The Two Standards' ; Miss Ethel Coxon, ' Within Bounds ' ; and Mr. Ignatius Donnelly, ' The Golden Bottle.' One pauses breathless at the end of this recital from a list of merely recent books. The influence of Catholic training is over many of these pages; but from others it is strangely absent 1 In most of them the ethic* common to all religions are illustrated, often with admirable force ; but Mrs. Craigie, in the book here attached to her name, is perhaps the most definite and persistent controversialist, on the Catholic side, of all the authors upon this roll-call of, for the most part, honorable and respected names.