The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-05-06
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Heroic Women Of the Btble cad the CAMrck. With
Art illustrations. New Yofk;sJ. Ford g.
116 Carondelet street, General Agents for the
South.
This beautiful book, which we noticed in a
previous issue, comes to us at present with the
additional claim of our Very Rev. Arohb;shopA
appreciation.
He Gays: 81 think this work is excellent for
theological accuracy, extensive science and
truly Catholic spirit" This enlogy is iuster
and more comprehensive than any we can pro.
pose, and gives the reader clear insight into
the great and varied merits of the work. It ia
indeed q tribute to Religion and Art beautifed
by Science and Faith.
The Rev. Bernard O'Reilly, with the skill of
a scholar and the piety of q Christian, has
woven into a literary tapestry the grand events
of the Bible aud the Church, setting, at regu.
lar intervals along the shining web, the livss
of those heroic women who best illustrate the
power of God and the dependence Of His crea-
lures; but while laying the warp with the
golden threads of Faith, he has thro wn into the
wool rich CLEANS of history, science and erudi-
ton.
The chief aim of Catholic writer is always
to inculcate virtue rather than to entertain
careful in pointing out the good and evil in
the lives of the heroines, in order to excite our
admiration for the one and our detestation Of
the other. The weakness Of Sarah, the deceit
of Rebecca, the bitter jealousy of Rachel, are
not overlooked in the light of their more glo-
rious virtues, and the lesson thus conveyed is
we'll calculated to instruct and console the
heart of every woman.
nply aiv of ia fin r hay faa
handed to subscribers, but these we have read,
from cover to cover, and can we'll understand
Archbishop Purcelps warm eulogium when he
declares that the perusal of them " effectualy
banished sleep from his weary old eyes,"
The Bishop of Montreal expresses himself
DESTROYS of seeing the work in every Christian
family, because he feels that it will be pro-
ductive of much good This, then, is the great
ambition of tho pious and learned writer, to do
good but our readers will also perceive that
he seeks his object by making his work attrac-
tive as we'll as solid, entertaining as well %
religious. The richly colored plates which
illustrate the book, are all foo smiles Of oele-
| brated oil paintings. The frat number 10 orna-
mented with o copy of Domeniehino's "Visita
| tion," in which accuracy extends to every de-
| tail of color and form. The faces Of the two
Virgin, full of gracious tenderness, bends
above the kpeeling Saint Elizabeth, while the
latter, with q rapt, prophetic gaze that won
ders and adores, seems to be asking the loving
question: "Whence is it that the Mother of
my Lord should come to visit mep
Words which reveal to the Christian world
the high dignity of Mary, and which inculcate
it's duty towards her, of leve and veneration.
The other Eve chrome paintings are also in
teresting, and will become additionally SO as
the numbers are issued which contain the
mastery sketches of the lives and chief events
connected with them.
We are earnest in describing the merits of
this work, because, with Bishop Foley, of
Chicago, we believe it to be among "what We
need most-solid attractive. religious books, to
counteraot the food of irreligious books and
papers deluging the land"
When the work is completed it will consist
of twenty-five numbers, illustrated with as
many plates in oil colors, and containing twice
as many narrative biographies of the grand
female characters of the Old and New Tesla
ments, and of many of the Saints Of the Christ
ian Church, both in earlier and later times.
Certainly Catholic readers and lovers Of
divine Scriptures and true history,"-to quote
Bishop Foley's words,-ought to patronize this
truly Christian publication, and, as in olden
times, rich folds of pictured tapestry adorned
the walls and informed the minds of Christ"
ians, so in our age such books this Of the
Rev. Bernard O'Reilly will serve to embellsh
by their presence and instruct by their teach
ings, the homes and hearts of all Catholics who
appreciate Art and reverence Religion.
cit is surprising to find" says the St. Louis
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