BOOK NOTICES

New Zealand Tablet, 17 April 1924, Page 21

BOO K NOTICES

The Angel of the Eucharist. By Sister Marie Bernard, St. Mary’s, N.Y. Talbot Press, Dublin. 2/6 net. Sister Bernard tells in glowing words the story of the life and works, of Marie Eustelle H'arpain (1814-1842) who has well been called “the saint of the Eucharist.” These edifying chapters have already appeared in the Catholic {reside from which they are now reprinted and published in one of the Talbot Press’s neat volumes.

Saint Gregory the Great. By a Sister of Notre Dame. Talbot Press, Dublin. 5/-. This book is a really modern and interesting life of the great Pope who was among the most distinguished of the builders of the Church. It makes the reader know St. Gregorythe man, the monk, the writer, the firm ruler, and the saint. “This great Pope,” says Bossuet, “subdued the Lombards, saved Rome and Italy though the emperors gave him no help, repressed the upstart pride of the patriarchs of Constantinople, enlightened the whole Church by his teaching, governed both East and West with vigor and humility, and gave to the world a perfect pattern of pastoral rule.” Biographies of this kind ought to be widely road. They fulfil all the ends that a good book ought they instruct, interest, and elevate the mind., , On Miracles and Some Other Matters. By' Sir Bertram Windle. Burns, Oates,, Washbourne, London. Price ■6/- net. '*• • • ’ r , . The' educated Catholic public, will welcome this new book of Sir Bertram Windle’s. : This clear writer and profound thinker always speaks with first-rate authority .on the subject of science and religion, • and his books are a valu-

able mine of information oil' questions raised by modem unbelievers who pretend that the Church shrinks from the light of Progress. New Zealand readers often need an antidote against the vaporings of Stouts and Bells, and in works like the present, written by a man who does know what he is tailing about, they get it. The present volume deals with smch interesting and actual topics as ‘‘Some Plain Facts about Miracles and Healing,” “The Religion of Prehistoric Man,” “Astrology,” “Some Early Incidents in English Medicine.”