NEW BOOKS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 4, 24 January 1901, Page 10

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Wr. have received from Young and Co., publishers, 27 Barclay HtiM't, New York (per Gille and Co., Sydney), two recent school diaiuas — Tarn (2."> cents) and < t >uccn Floradine (25 cents). Tara is rui/zlingly described on the title-page as ' A drama from the opera •' Fmola," by Charles Dawson and Moore's Melodies.' The drama it united for the upper classes in convent schools. Queen Floradine is of the usual type of fairy drama, and is intended for the little ones. Neither of these publications will do much to relieve the almost uniform dulness of the dramatic exhibitions that usually bring the convent scholastic year to such a melancholy close. A real service would be rendered to our educational institutes if some Catholic dramatic writer of real ability set himself the task of providing a series of live plays for our conventual and collegiate establishments. The An- Maria has republi?hed, in its usual attractive form, that exquisite reuit.il of the experiences of a convert on his way to the Church — A Tnmhhd Heart, and How it was Comforted at Zatt. We now learn that its author is the distinguished American Catholic writer, Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard. It is an exquisite little gem of autobiography, and tells with refined delicacy and with the charm of style for which its author is, so distinguished, the inmost story of the religious doubts and yearnings which sent him forth on the long and weary pilgrimage that brought rest at last to his troubled heart in the bosom of the Catholic Church. Our copy of the early edition of this fascinating little volume has helped on his or her toilful journey many a pilgrim similarly circumstanoed. The reprint of this little work should be in every Catholic home and on the prize lis-t of every Catholic school. Procurable from Aye Maria, Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S.A., and all Catholic booksellers advertising in our columns. (Pp. 192, cloth, 75 cents ) Like an old and welcome friend, The Xaverian, the school annual of St Francis Xavier's College, Kew, Melbourne, turns up regularly at this season of the year brimming over with good things, in addition to the more sedate articles dealing directly with school work. Unlike our old friends, The Xarerian grows more lusty and verile year by year. It run* into 40 pages of reading matter made up of contributions fro.n the students and records of school doings. The editors — Masters Charles Gavan Duffy, William Keane, and Bertie Jackson — have performed their work well, and have turned out an annual which is creditable alike to themselves and the institution.