The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-12-17
HEw PUBLICATIONS..

many beautiful works on the same aubjectno,
| in use among Catholics. The great American
| writer, Brownson, WAS once reproached for thu
| sameness of the articles in his Reviep, al, :,
them having the Church in some one of her M.
| pects, as the centre around which every word
| and sentence was made to revolve. In his replv
| to his critic, Mr.. Brownson said: "We mich.
retort that the world sings but one cong, tb,.
it knows and can know no other; it is the Con,
sung to it by the Devil in Paradise, which Il
caught up and has repeated ever since, with . Z
persistence not to be shaken by the discover
continually made, that it is q lying song. IA
degree of suffering, no amount of experisaos.
could or can teach ancient or modern heathm.
| that the world is not a thing to be sought a,
loved for its own sake"
| These words recall to mind the innumerab,o
works on science, as understood by the philoso
piers of to day, which are being continuallv
published in this country and in England, and
which have but one song upon their pages. This
one refrain of so-called scientists refers every
| thing to this world or to man, and repsrds
nothing as good which does not end in self.
| celebrated French writer states that as the
Church never doubts, she is therefore not pos.
sessed of that disputative restlessness which
|
she write who never doubts I" are the wordsof
| De Mastre but there is one reason why she
writes, and it is this reason which produces
such books as the one now before us.
The one burden of the Church's song is to
teach men how to save their souls; !; and as God
and His infinite perfections are her text, che
cannot help accommodating books upon subjects
SO inexhaustible and so varied. Besides she
has to meet the endless changes in that oss
song sung by deceiving world to souls easily
charmed by such melody /; and it is this watch.
fnl care which prompts her to give us "fhs
Voice of Jesus Suffering" that it may speat-
as the title expressly statee-not only to thA
heart but to the mind of every Christian.
The pleasing novelty of this work is that it
makes our Divine Lord Himself relate all the
incidents of His Passion, and thus the reader ID
associated directly with his Divine Master and
is brought, as it were, alone into His presence
hearing only His voice, and listening only to
His teachings.
The style Of the book Is simple yet mos.
scholarly, and thus makes it interesting as .
literary work apart from it's great value as .
devotional one.
We think it is a book to please all classes d
readers, the Indifferent as we'll as the devout
the illiterate as well as the learned, the younl
, as we'll as the old. Compiled by q PASSIONS
Father whose erudition is revealed on ever
page, but whose humility has made him con
ceal his name, the work, like all those writer
, by the members of the Order, is instructive,
edifying and eminently practical.
1t is indeed a song sung by Mother Church to
her restless children in order to bring them
into peace and happiness. 1t reverses all the
, propositions heard in the one song of the
world, for it teaches that God alone is our fEEs
, beginning and last end, that true hsppineGsb Is
to be found in self-denial instead Of self-in
dulgence, that this earth is an exile and not sn
Eden, and that creatures and comforts and all
. that belongs to Time must be used as stepping
= stones towards that happy Eternity where the
Voice of Jesus, ne longer sufering but rejoicing
. shall speak to our souls Of endless rest and
blessedness.
Q The Catholic Family almanac. New York: Co
tholic Publication Society. New Orleans:
c. D. Elder.
This excellent annual for the year 1877 B
already before us, with its usual fund OF gen
eral information, valuable statistics, and agree
able literary matter.
The illustrations, letter-press and Olndifs
= display great care and attention on the pA''i
'' the publishers, and make the present nunOct'
like it's predecessors, a household treasure !"
every Catholic family.
I. We are glad to see beautiful tribute in 10
. pages to DR.. Brownson, the one illusflOI !,
- champion furnished by the Catholic laity Z"
q the United States.
y good likeness of the great writer is CS''
l. tainly no small attraction to American resOs''
'r while the sketch of his life is an instruoS''
:. lesson to every Catholic.
At The catalogue of Ancient Irish King
% curious and interesting article, and Prov.
IN the warlike chRracter of that race, since ~
to greater number of them perished by the sTOu :.
10 The history of the "old Cathedral " OIL =
&c Louis, Mo-, is replete with information toE ~
O. readers, and shows the wonderful growth 0i
n- village of 1764 into the Rome of America
1g St. Louis is called to-day, in 1876. 49,,