NEW BOOKS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 40, 7 December 1905, Page 20

NEW BOOKS

One of the very best books of religious instruction that we know of is Father de Zulueta's recently published ' Letters on Christian Doctrine.' The letters were originally penned for seamen, and appeared in a supplement to the English ' Messenger of the Sacred Heart.' The gratifying success of the earlier letters of the series led to their being remodelled and rewritten, so that they, and those that followed, weie adapted to the needs of a wider and more miscellaneous audience. The instructions cover the whole giuund of the Ten Commandments and the Precepts of the Church. Useful appendices are added on the grace of the Sacraments, the age of exemption from fasting for women, and the •New Testament and divorce. The instructions are full, luminously clear, eminently practical, and written in an interesting and attractive style. We commend in a special way the author's treatment of the superstitions of our time, and strongly recommend the work to our clergy, our educational institutions, and the faithful generally as an admirable book of instructions on the Commandments of God and of the Church. In regard to paper, type, binding, marginal headings, index, etc., the publishers have done their part of the work in a manner that leaves nothing to be desired. (R. and T. Washbourne, 4 Paternoster Row, London, and all booksellers. Pp. viii.— 4l4, demy Bvo. ; cloth, 2s '6d nett). The same firm has brought out a large-type edition of the Epistles and Gospels for all Sundays, holydays of obligation, and other important feasts of the ecclesiastical year. The book is well printed and neatly bound, and will prove very serviceable both for preachers and for the private devotion of the faithful. (Pp. 264 ; cloth, Is Gd).