BOOK ’NOTICE

New Zealand Tablet, 5 July 1917, Page 25

BOOK ’NOTICE

Breviarium Roman 4 vols. (M. 11. Gill and Son, Limited, Dublin 305.).

We have much pleasure in recommending this new edition of the Breviary to the clergy of New Zealand. It is not a large-type publication, but the printing on thin opaque paper leaves little to be desired. The format is larger than in the first edition, but it is still a convenient pocket size, admirably suited for missionary priests. The arrangement of the offices is the best we have seen. The Ordinarium has been arranged in the Psalter so that for Matins, Lauds, and each of the Hours we find the appropriate hymns, antiphons, and prayers in their places, thus obviating the necessity of constantly turning back to the beginning of the book. Whenever proper offices occur they are given in full, except when the psalms are taken from one of the Commons, and after the Common of Apostles all the Sunday psalms for the Hours are repeated, so that, for example on to-day, the feast of St. Paul, one can read straight on from Matins to Vespers and Compline without turning back to the beginning of the book. The volumes are well bound in flexible morocco and altogether the Breviary is marvellously cheap and convenient.