Dr. O'Riordan's Book

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 25, 21 June 1906, Page 1

Dr. O'Riordan's Book

Once more, and for the second time, we absolutely decline an invitation to ' show up ' anti-Catholic fellies and falsehoods excerpted from the envenomed pages of Misther McCarthy, Esquire. There was a time when the columns of the ' Tablet ' furnished practically the only means in New Zealand of exposing the McCarthyPlunkett calumnies, that were so frequently transferred to oar secular press. But with the publication of Dr. O'Riordan's masterly work, that need has passed by. 1 Catholicity and Progress in Ireland ' is obtainable in New Zealand. It is| dynamite to McCarthy and his kind. But it is more than this : it is a gold-mine of lore upon a score of subjects of current anti-Catholic controversy. As an antidote, a copy of it should be in every public, parochiah, school and college library, and on the shelves of every Young Men's Ciub in Australasia. Personally,

■we have done something in this direction. And we should gladly see this valuable work replace the cumbersome, costly, -and (in too many cases') useless agglomerates of binding and printed paper . that have been introduced into so many Catholic homes in New Zealand by oily knaves from ever-sea: