BOOK NOTICES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 43, 15 October 1924, Page 25

BOOK NOTICES

Rumour. The latest copy of this bright periodical contains details of a £SO competition in which readers are invited to vote on- a series of clever covers. In picture, paragraph, and'story, Humour maintains its cheery record. The Bound Tabic. The September issue of this sound quarterly contains a series of important articles of universal interest. The paper which traces the growth of autonomy in the Dominions is.particularly appropriate. The' American Presidential campaign is ably dealt with. The article on the Ulster Boundary Question supplies us with a great deal of valuable information and comment concerning that vexed problem.. Judith's Garden. Platypus Series. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. Post Free, 2/8. ........... This publication of Mary E. Basset's story is one of the best of the brilliant series now being issued in Australia. Readers of The Little Green Door will expect . a delightful tale, and they will not he disappointed in this book for garden-lovers. Old Bush Songs. Platypus Series. Edited by A. B. Paterson. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. It was a wise idea to include this collection of old-time Australian songs in the Platypus Series. There is history as well as poetry and rollicking fun in the ballads and it is well to preserve them. The Squatter's Dream. By Rolf Boldrewood. Platypus Series. '. '"'.'■' " : . Not as successful as the immortal Bobbery Under Arms, by the same author, this Australian novel is, however, well worthy of inclusion in the series. .• . The True Story of Margaret Catchpole, by G. B. Barton. Platypus Series. '"---■• There is an amount of old Sydney history in this story of the life of a humble heroine.of the dark penal days. The story is told with great ability and it reads like a novel. My New Curate, by Canon Sheehan. (Tablet Office.) ' We are: pleased to see among the recent Tablet stock a hew edition of Canon Sheehan's masterpiece, the story which has .been translated into half the modern languages". It is the most delightful picture of .Irish life ever written. From Tolstoi to the critic of Punch, all reviewers and readers were, at; one in the praise of it. '"''_' Miniature fives of the Saints, by Father BoAyden, O.C. (Tablet). - r .;ln two handy'; volumes we have here a life of a saint ■and' some pious thoughts for each ..day of the year.-r No

better book for the, spiritual reading of busy people could be rccommended% - _ ~ - Th& Prymer, Edited by -Father.. Martindale. ■ Price 7/ 6 " (Tablet.) •- T ■;■''•'.":..; .- \ ' - ;: - ' - : .' . The scholarly introduction to this admirable prayerbook shows us that the Catholic laity of England, in bygone days,-loved the prayers of the Ritual and 'used them daily. The prayers and exercises collected in this neat little volume are all the expression of true Catholic piety. The Latin and English of several are given side by side. The neat binding and the characteristically excellent ' printing of Burns and Oates go to make up a booklet most suitable for presentation. "'■■'■'.<.■. .... "-:!;-..