BOOK NOTICES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 14, 12 April 1923, Page 21

BOOK NOTICES

Marist Brothers' First Booh, Burns, Oates, 'Washbourne, London. Price 1/6. To comply with a widely expressed request the Marist

Brothers are issuing a new series of Reading Books which will aim at cultivating the child’s golden gift of imagination by making it acquainted with some of the best stories of the world’s imaginative literature. The compilers avail themselves largely of Catholic legends and the lives of the heroes of God, knowing that nothing is better calculated to maintain a Catholic atmosphere. The present volume is the first book of the series, and it is in every way all that the aims of the compilers foreshadowed. Particularly notable are the illustrations in color, usually reproductions of masterpieces.

Catholic Truth, Vol. 1., No. 1. Catholic Truth Society, London. Price Threepence. This is the first number of a new journal intended to

forward the aims and interests of the 0.T.5., and it is bound to be welcome to all educated Catholic readers. A glance at the contents of the first issue is sufficient to make its scope plain. There is an article on "The Title Catholic Truth ” by Hilaire Belloc, one on “Bad Popes” by Herbert Thurston, and a section named “The Antidote” dealing with Pope Joan, Galileo, and Married Priestsfables new and old about the Church.

Catholic Medical Guardian, the Quarterly Journal of the Guild of SS. Luke, Cosmas, and Damian. Edited by

Lieut. Col. P. W. O’Gorman, C.M.G., M.D., etc. Burns, Oates, Washbourne, London. Price 1/4 (post free). Here is another first number of a first volume of a

Catholic journal with high aims, restricted however in its space. It cannot fail to bo of great interest to Catholic doctors even outside the guilds of which it is the official journal.

Roisin Ththh, The Annual of the Cumann na n’Gaedhael, Wellington. Vol 1., No. 1. Last but not least we welcome a third first number

in Baric Rosalecn which comes to charm us with its attractive cover, its proud record of a year’s achievement, and its kindly, spirit of brotherhood. There are articles and stories and poems (jo Icor in this first number. Among them wo note a characteristically beautiful verse from "E.D.”, a brilliant sketch from the pen of Jessie Mackay, a fine address on John Mitchel from M. O’Leary, a sonorous poem by Ua Nuallain, a good article by J. Robinson, a bright story by Carol Mangan, and a tiresome paper on Irish Literature by Seamus Ua Ceallaigh. To the young Annual we say Slainte agus saoghail Fada\

C.T.S. Publications London: The English Pope, by G. R. Snell; The Resurrection of. the Body, by Vincent McNabb, 0.P.; The White Pearl and the Blade Peril, 2d each. Melbourne: Annual Report; The Church and Prosperity, Parts 1 and 2. Price 2d each.

The America Press Publications Evolution and Science, by Rev. Francis P. Lebuffe, S. J.; God and Caesar, by Rev. Joseph Husslein, S.J. Ten Cents each. The Ecclesiastical Review, February, 1923. Linehan,

Melbourne. 20/- yearly.

The -February number of this valuable ecclesiastical periodical contains many articles of interest and importance. Father Cornelius Cremin contributes a scholarly paper on the Petrine Confession Father Herbert Parker writes a practical and timely article on Socialism and the Catholic Pulpit. All the recent Roman documents are given and the more important Catholic publications are noticed. - . 1 - ' :

Another Steamship Co. Makes Arrangements for Mass A complete Mass outfit, manufactured by a Catholic Montreal firm, with a blessed altar stone, has been installed on. each of the Canadian Pacific Steamships sailing I from Vancouver to Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila.. The same facilities are provided on the White Star Atlantic service. '■'■■'.' ■>>; '":'-■.• /;';.. ? : 'C '-:;" :; : '\,