New Books

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 7 February 1907, Page 24

New Books

From Louis dille and Co., (Liverpool Sydney) we have received the following publications :—: — .. ■•— ' Innisfail,. or Distant Days in Tipperary ', by $$VP. Hickey.. The author is a New South Wales priest who ,is deeply versed in literature.' In the book before us he. gives a narrative of .^distant days in Tipperary' —a thin \ein of story., running through the whole book and keeping lip the reader's interest to the close. His Father Tom is -an ideal Irish' sogart. arun '. An excellent and instructive moral tone marks -'the book throughout, , and It is very suitable for school prizes and general reajdi'ng. (Cloth, gilt, 284 pages ; 3s 6d).

The fifth volume- of " the ' Library of St. Francis de Sales is v a ,very excellent new translation of, that great Saint's;' Spiritual. Conferences.' The translation jvyas, made from the Ahnecy text of 1895, and the best guarantee of the fidelity and " excellence of the work *is the fact' that it was done under the supervision of two such eminent scholars as Abbot Gasquet and. the late Canon Mackey, -O-.5.8. No word of ours is needed to extol the merits of these' beautiful familiar spiritual conferences which St. "" Francis de Sales addressed to the Sisters of the Visitation. The new translation will 'be found ", to - be a great improvement upon that of 1862. We recommend the work to religious and to;- all who aspire to the higher life, whether .in the, world 6i in the cloister.. (Oloth, gilt; pp. lxxii-406 ; 6s). ' v ■

1 Mary in the Gospels ', by,- the Very Rev. J. Spencer Northcote, D.D. (new edition,- revised.). . This work consists of a" series of seventeen lectures on the history - of - the Blessed Virgin as' lecorded by the Evangelists. The author deals with devotion to the, Blessed Virgin from the Scriptural standpoint, as Newman did^from the patriotic point of view. The work lias enjoyesi ; considerable popularity and removed many a prejudice in its •day, and in its new and improved dress deserves a place in every Catholic home (Cloth, gilt ; 310 pages ;3s Gd).

' Tyburn Conferences : Oxford, Douay, Tyburn \ by Dom Bede - Camm, OrS.B. The learned Benedictine author of "Lives of the English Martyrs' and other works has given us in these conferences a 'series of discourses that go straight to the heart. It_is the story of the English martyrs— of thi>lr -training at. 'pouay, their calling at Oxford, and the 'consummation of "their sacrifice at Tyburn, the Coliseum, and Montmartre-(Mons Marty rum) of the Catholic Church in- England. The whole story is admirably told. Crashaw's beautjful devotional poem to- ' the Name above every Name ' is used as a dedication. The book is brought out in Quaint and attractive'style." (Cloth, gilt ; pp. .xxiH24 ;^3s 6d).

• ' Our Alma Mater, 1 the organ of --the students of St.Ignatius' College, Iliverview, Sydney, has' attained its twenty-first year. In the "leading article in' the current issue we are told that -in its" infancy friendly criticsforetold a successful career for the magazine/ and so far that prophecy has been fulfilled.- -The greater part, of the number ' is taken- up with a record -of -the wprk of the students in the class rooms and athletic field during the past year, consequently the space devoted' to original contributions is limited, but what there is of these is up to the usually high standard of the magazine. The illustrations are numerous and well done, especially the frontispicce-r-a portrait of Father Wernz; the recently elected General of the Society 'pi Jesus. , On the whole the magazine is accredit "to "the college; and in an'especial manner to the; editors..