BOOK NOTICES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 16, 26 April 1923, Page 23

BOOK NOTICES

London C.T.S. Publications; His Further Greetings ; Simple Meditations for Easter; Anglo-Catholics, by Rev. P. H. Malden; Father Tom Burke on the Confessional; Spiritual Reading, by Bishop Vaughan; Extreme li notion, by J. B. Jaggar, S.J. Twopence each. Melbourne C.T.S. Publications: The Lady Evelyn, by Miriam Agatha; Christmas Mass at Sea, by Father Lockington; Bare Suicide, by M P. Dowling, S.J.; Some Noted Catholic Men of Science, by Sir Bertram W indie. Twopence each. John , Henry 111., and Later Medieval Period (History of England Series), by Ernest Hull, S.J. Examiner Press, Bombay. Price 12 annas net. In addition to his controversial work on general topics, Father Hull has undertaken the strenuous labor of providing Catholics with an antidote to British history as it is usually found in standard works and in school manuals. I he Protestant tradition has distorted and colored so many important events that history has almost to be re-written in order to give readers the plain truth. Father Hull has already published three volumes which supply the antidote to the vitiated treatment of the periods and topics with which they deal. That Arch-Liar Frcude, The British and Anglo-Saxon Period, and The Norman and Early Medieval Period, are books that have been received with high praise all over the Catholic world already. We now welcome another volume of this invaluable series: John, Henry 111., and Later Medieval Period. It deals with the period which perhaps gives occasion to most historical controversies and provides much. ammunition for the attacks on Rome. The fights between Church and State were all between Catholics and Catholics, but in the cause of Protestantsm the truculence of Catholic kings and lords is made to appear as a. revolt against the authority of the Pope and a. proof of the independence of England of Roman supremacy. Students of controversy readily recognise what a field for research the author had when dealing with the subject of King John and the Interdict, with the Magna Charta, with Bishop Grosseteste, with the AntiPalpal Legislation before and after the end of the thirteenth century. All these topics and many others com© within Father Hull’s scope in the present volume, and all are treated in his usual masterly manner. It is a hook for all Catholic students of English History. No Catholic teacher ought to be without it if he wants to do his work conscientiously. Grcen-and-Gcld: Jubilee Record of the Hibernian Society in Dunedin. Compiled and written by J. J. Wilson.. N.Z. Tablet Office; 2/6 net. - We congratulate the Dunedin Hbiernians on this Jubilee Souvenir of the Society in Dunedin. It is well done, printed on good paper, tastefully illustrated with numerous plates of prelates, priests, officials of the Society, and other subjects having some historical connection with the flourishing Dunedin branch. ■ ' -