GENERAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 20, 14 May 1903, Page 10

GENERAL.

A Monumental Work.

Canon O'Hanlon, IT . Rand* mount (sa>s the I recman's Journal '), is to be cangratulated on the recont issue, Part K>2, of his monumental ' Li\es ot tho Irish Saints ' bringing the work down to October 12th. Jhe present instalment deals with the lr\es of those Irish servants of God whose feasts are commemorated on October 10th, 11th, and 12th, whose names will be new save to the few scholars who ha\e made a study of Irish hagiology Much the greater part of the work under notice Is filled with a critical memoir of St. Canice (Cannoach or Kenny), patron saint of Kilkenny, adequately illustrated wherein tho venerable Canon has utilised tho latest researches for the purpose of elucidating all that is Kenuinelv known of this groat saint, who died on October 11th .r>9B. r >9B at Aghaboe. Queen's County. 1 hree moio carts will complete Volume X., completing the month of October and it is to bo hoped that the aged pastor of SnndMiiounl will bo spared to finish the two remaining ,olumcs~ Canon O'TTanlon has been 35 years laboring at the compilation of the Irish ' Acta Sanctorum, surely a stupendous monument of unwearied labor, as may be evidenced in the 6528 pages in royal octavo now printed by Messrs. Scaly, Dryers, and Walker.