somewhat apologetic use of the Irish proverb, "It is enough for a person to do his best." By the way, when one compares the Irish and English of this phrase, it is a little astonishing to find that the charge of circumlocution must be laid at the door of the English. Yet one hears, ad nauseam, concerning the 'circumlocution' of Irish. An imaginary fault, as learners soon find out for themselves. "Go mairid ár nGaedilg slán !

4. The Greek Fathers. By Adrian Fortescue. London : Catholic Truth Society, 69 Southwark Bridge Road. (Price 2s. 6d.)

This is one of the largest and best books published by this admirable Society. Dr. Fortescue is an authority on all questions connected with the history and literature of the Greek Church; and he has condensed into this volume a great deal of learning with not a little originality and quiet humour. Priests especially would be very well advised to place this book on their shelves beside the more dignified tome recommended to them in a previous paragraph. The Catholic Truth Society has also published for sixpence, The Divine Liturgy of Our Father among the Saints, John Chrysostom, done into English with an Introduction and Notes by Adrian Fortescue, Clerk of the Latin Rite"under which last phrase some may be unable to recognize "a Roman Catholic Priest."

5. The Catholic Truth Society has also added to its inexhaustible catalogue several excellent penny books, such as Holy Mass, by Mother Mary Loyola of the Bar Convent, York; A Dialogue on Socialism, by the Rev. J. B. M'Laughlin, O.S.B., one of the wisest discussions of this burning question that we have seen; The Making of a Saint, not marked by the author's name or initials; Ven. George Haydock (1556-1584), by John B. Wainewright; The Use of Reason, by the Rev. P. M. Northcote; A Study in Bigotry, by the Rev. Joseph Keating, S.J., who discusses Dr. Horton's recent book, My Belief; Pastor Chiniquy, an Examination of his "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome," by the Rev. Sydney F. Smith, S.J.; Rome and Constantinople, by Adrian Fortescue; The Great Supper: a Homiletic Commentary on Luke xiv., 16, by the Rev. Edmund English; Working-men as Evangelists: a Basis for Social Reform, by the Rev. Charles Plater, S.J.; which is mainly an appeal for the retreats for

*We are indebted for this notice to Miss Alice Furlong, 5, Lebass Terrace, Leinster Road, Rathmines, who has devoted herself to the old language with such earnestness and perseverance that she is now a certificated teacher of Gaelic. Her Roses and Rue is a book of exquisite English poetry; and competent judges testify to her brilliant success as a writer of Irish verse also.

working-men begun of late in Belgium and England. Our Lady of Lourdes is an excellent summary of the wonderful history that is familiar to all of us. The last pennyworths to be mentioned are two numbers of the Catholic Truth Society Lectures on the History of Religions, namely, The Religion of Early Rome, by Cyril Martindale, S.J., and The Religion of Modern Judaism, by George S. Hitchcock, S.J. These last two learned essays are instalments of a work in four volumes which will furnish similar accounts of thirty-two religions. This is one of the most important literary projects as yet undertaken by the indefatigable Catholic Truth Society of England. Its latest shilling volume, The Catholic Church and Science, contains four of Father Gerard's admirable papers, three by the Rev. P. M. Northcote, two by Dr. Windle, President of Queen's College, Cork, and two others. Our Faith, Part II., by Cecil Lylburn (price 3d.), gives a good summary of Catholic doctrine regarding indulgences, the Blessed Virgin, Eternal Punishment, the Communion of Saints, the Mass, and Salvation for all.

6. The Irish Dames of Ypres. By the Rev. Dom Patrick Nolan, Priest and Monk of the Order of St. Benedict. Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Waterford: Browne and Nolan, Limited. (Price IOS. 6d. net.)

It is impossible, within our confined limits, to give anything approaching to an adequate review of a massive and erudite work like the present. We have even abridged its title, which goes on to describe it as a history of the Royal Irish Abbey of Ypres, founded A.D. 1665 and still flourishing, and also as giving some account of Irish Jacobitism, with a portrait of James II, and Stuart Letters hitherto unpublished." Dom Nolan has amassed his materials with immense industry, and has made excellent use of them, though of course a great part of the work can only hope to interest a special class of readers. But there is much of value for the general reader. This stately volume reflects credit on all who in different capacities have taken part in its production. By the way, on French soil we found that "Ypres " rhymes with "sleeper." When we first met it in Thomas Davis's "Flower of Finae," we pronounced it eepray. In old French books the founder of the Jansenists is spoken of as "Monsieur d'Ypres." This book links the quaint old Flemish town with more edifying associations.

7. The fifth of these paragraphs purported to give a complete inventory of the recent publications of the Catholic Truth Society. But two items were overlooked, one in prose and one in verse. and both drawn from the inexhaustible treasury of Father Bearne, S.J. A delicious little quarto, price sixpence, contains

Cantate Puero: Verses on the Holy Childhood, which is touchingly appropriate for Christmastide. The title emphasizes the fact that it is a companion volume to one published a year or two ago, Cantate Mariae: Meditations in Song. This new booklet is made up of a score of very musical canticles, chiefly regarding the Divine Infancy. The other Catholic Truth Society publication is No. 5 of the Claud Denvil Series, namely, Howard Wiltan, Wanderer, price one penny-the latest sample of Father Bearne's infinite inventions and power of interesting realization.

8. For a special class of our readers it will be quite enough to announce the publication by Benziger of New York, of the second volume of A Manual of Moral Theology for Englishspeaking Countries, by the Rev. Thomas Slater, S.J., St. Beuno's College, St. Asaph; with Notes on American Legislation by the Rev. Michael Martin, S.J., Professor of Moral Theology in St. Louis University. The first volume has already been very widely circulated; but the work may be considered as issued now for the first time, as it is now complete. The last pages give a good working index to both the volumes. The publishers have produced the book in the best manner.

9. The Life of St. Melania. By His Eminence Cardinal Rampolla. Translated by E. Leahy and edited by Herbert Thurston, S.J. London: Burns and Oates. (Price 4s. 6d. net.)

Father Thurston's prefaces are always worth reading, and his name as editor would be a guarantee for the worth of this volume if it had a less illustrious author than Cardinal Rampolla. His Eminence uses his vast stores of erudition to show us St. Melania in her surroundings in the Roman world of that period. The English translation is excellent, and the price is very modest for a volume so worthily produced.

10. In the Gates of the North. By Standish O'Grady. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers, and Walker. (Price 3s. 6d.)

This is a new edition of an Irish romance of the time of Cuculain, one of a series of historical tales which have gained considerable popularity. It is not everyone who can be interested in the doings of Queen Maeve: some have the bad taste to take more interest in Queen Victoria of Spain. But there can be no doubt about Mr. O'Grady's skill as a story-teller, or the freshness and vigour of his style. We prefer those tales of his which approach nearer to our own time, like Ulric the Ready, which we noticed in our September Number.

II. A Study in American Freemasonry. Edited by Arthur Preuss. St. Louis and Freiburg: B. Herder.

(Price 6s.)

This solid book is not a vague denunciation of Freemasonry in general, but a calm examination of Freemasonry as practised

in the United States; and this study is founded on authorized treatises written by men who are proved to have a right to speak for Freemasons. It proves clearly what indeed no candid Freemason will dispute, that there is no room for a sincere Catholic in such an organization, even if it had not been formally condemned by the Church.

12. Here are three books of tales which have this in common, that they do not pretend to belong to our present day, but look back to the far past. The one that pleases us far the best is Sanctity's Romance, by the Rev. David Bearne, S.J. (London : Burns and Oates, price 2s.) This consists of Stories of the Bright Ages-sometimes called the Dark Ages-twenty-three sketches of saints from St. Simon Stylites to St. John Gualbert, with two or three ballads interspersed. They are written with the well-known literary skill of the author of The Ridingdale Boys. The reader is advised to look at the opinions of critics given in the last pages of this second volume of Sanctity's Romance. Some, however, will prefer Captain Harry, a Tale of the Parliamentary Wars, by J. M. Lepper (Dublin: Sealy, Bryers, and Walker, price sixpence). Sir Charles Coote and other real persons figure in the tale. We do not know how far Mr. Lepper follows real history. A few words of preface would have prepared one for the reading of the book from this point of view. The Shadow of Eversleigh by Jane Lansdowne (New York Benziger, price 4s.) is a much more ambitious historical romance, written in somewhat archaic English, such as might have been used by the person who is supposed to tell the story which belongs to England in the persecution days that followed the blessed Reformation. The tale will be relished by many more than by the present writer who shrinks from this antiquarian sort of story-telling, even when the story-teller is Lady Georgiana Fullerton.

13. The Josephian has just begun its course as the organ of St. Joseph's Boys' Industrial School, Longsight, Manchester. It has begun well. The Bishop of Salford, Dr. Casartelli, contributes one bright page, and Father Bearne another. When it reaches those that the school has sent out to various parts of the world, they are sure to send back interesting contributions. The Boston College Stylus and the Fordham Monthly are as lively and varied as ever. But, appearing every month, they cannot rival Our Alma Mater (Riverside, Sydney, Australia). An interesting item is Father Robert Hugh Benson's good-humoured replies to some juvenile critics of his Light of the World in the preceding Number of Our Alma Mater.

14. Cary and Co., Oxford Circus Avenue, 231 Oxford Street,

London, W., have just published Mass of St. Benedict for Voices in Unison, by Richard B. Mason (price Is. net), and Missa Fidelium, the Common of the Holy Mass set to Music for two Unison Choirs and Organ or Harmonium, by Samuel Gregory Ould, Monk of Fort Augustus (price 1s. 6d.) The dedication of the latter work to Dr. Casartelli, Bishop of Salford, is a guarantee of what may be called its musical orthodoxy.

15. Selections from the Poems of Lionel Johnson. London : Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, London W. (Price IS.)

Those who continue to love poetry, even in those prosaic days, are bound to be grateful for Mr. Mathews for publishing such precious volumes as this. A dainty little quarto contains some thirty of his best poems, prefaced by Mr. Clement Shorter in a few sympathetic pages. Those of us who had the happiness of knowing Lionel Johnson know that the poet was more poetic than any of his poems. Irish readers in particular should be drawn to him were it only for his enthusiastic devotion to Ireland. Those whose expenditure in verse cannot go beyond a florin would be well advised in choosing out of the Vigo Cabinet Series this volume and Frances Wynne's Whisper !

16. Half-a-crown is very moderate as the net price of a wellbound volume of 410 pages, containing the second part of A Manual of Bible History, by C. Hart, B.A. London: Washbourne. The first volume was devoted to the Old Testament, and this to the New Testament. The work is admirably done. It is helped by two good maps and an excellent index.

17. The Story of the Congress (London: Burns and Oates, price Is. net), has run through six editions. It is a pleasantly written account of the London Eucharistic Congress of September, 1908, brightened by a good picture of Cardinal Vannutelli, and other photographs not so good. Some interesting pages are devoted to "Pulpit and Platform Echoes," striking phrases from preachers and speakers, beginning with Father Lucas, S.J., and ending with the Hon. Frank Russell, K.C., and between these Cardinal Mercier, Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Healy, Hilaire Belloc, M.P., and others.

18. We have to welcome eight new publications from the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland, the first that have come to us from its new headquarters, 24 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin. The recent beatification of the Foundress of the Religious of the Sacred Heart (known to us chiefly through Mount Anville, Co. Dublin), was the occasion of the excellent biography, The Blessed Madeleine Sophie Barat, by Miss M. T. Kelly. Why not as we once were? is the admirable Inaugural Lecture delivered by General Sir William Butler at the Catholic Truth Conference