Book notices

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 5, 31 January 1924, Page 26

Book notices

The Green Door.

Selected Poems of Kendall.

These two new volumes of the Platypus Series , have just come to hand from the publishers, Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Their style is uniform with that of the Platypus volumes already noticed in the Tablet. The Green Door is an entertaining story, full of the flavor of old romance. Kendal, perhaps the greatest Australian poet, was the son of one of New Zealand’s pioneers, and consequently has a special claim on our attention. This handy and neat edition of his poems will be universally welcomed. AVe note that several other volumes of Australian poetry aie to be published in the series during the present year. The publishers of these cheap and attractive volumes deserve the admiration and support of all readers. Three Stories, by Alice Dease,

Mrs. Alice Chichester, who is well known to Irish and English readers of Catholic fiction as “Alice Dease,” has, we are delighted to notice, joined the contributors to the Australian Catholic Truth Society, and this month’s issue of the Society’s publications comprise a pamphlet containing three stories written with all the distinguished author’s accustomed charm and grace of diction. The Sanity of Catholicism, by Very Rev. A. Power, S.J. The thoughtful layman must often have wondered at the extraordinary devotion which the Church bestows upon the souls of her children from the day of the baptism of the little child until as an old man he is laid in his grave. The old English ecclesiastical lawyers were so . used to this idea, that they always spoke of a parish priest as one having the care of souls, and this phraseology long survived the Reformation.: We arc so accustomed to think of a medical man as having the care of, the body, that we forget too often that the priest has the care of the soul, and in this duty he is ready to spend himself with a zeal and devotion never equalled by him who looks after the body merely. Father A. Power, S.J., develops this viewpoint very happily m his Sanity of' Catholicism, Part 11., London O.T.S.—Thc Christmas Card, M. E. Francis; At ,Clinstmastide, Eleanor Kelly. V ' -0..--, ' .

A Reverend Father was recently under treatment in a Welhngton , dental surgery; and was greatly impressed with the soothing effect of Q-tol, which the dentist rubbed into his inflamed- gums. "