The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-12-13
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Sermons For All the Sundays of the
Ecclesiastical Year. and the P1,in-
! cipal Festivals BY Rev. George
Deshon of the Paulist Fathers, New
York: Catholic Book Exchange, PIP
500. $1.00.
The "downrightness" which seems
to characterize the missionary meth
DDS of the Paulists is the quality
which chiefly impresses itself upon a
reader of this collection of sermons
by a Paulist Father. The sentences
go straight to the point. They are
like hammer beats, depending for
their effectiveness upon force and di-
rectness rather than upon the subtle
appeals to the ear or the emotions
which many preachers employ with
success. Father Deshon's homely
Anglo-Saxon has all the charm of the
common used uncommonly. He is
| quaint, simple, familiar. However
we'll he may know the fathers, one is
sure he also knows those old writer's
of English who did not make such
ado as their modern followers about
saying what they had to say.
| Father Deshon breaches as if to
| children. There is patience as well
as simplicity in his eXpositions. IF he
| had not spent long life in preaching
and directing souls, it might be OBJ
jected that he talks down" to his
hearers somewhat more than is neces
sary. But this missionary experience
has probably taught him the needs of
his audiences as well as the most
effective way of supplying them. 1t
is easy to believe him when he says
in his preface that he has endeavored
to forget himself and has aimed only
at the good of his hearers.
The quality of self-forgetfulpess is
the most important, perhaps, in the
equipment of preacher, and it is
quality luminous in Father Deshon's
sermons. The message is everything;
he has put aside self, put aside all
the ordinary graces and artificialities
of pulpit oratory put aside every SUI
perfuity of expression, that he may
send the word home with the utmost
directness. The sermons, for this rea-
son alone, should be suggestive to
priests and helpful to laymen.
ST Francis Manual, Containing: The
Rule and Ceremonial of the Third
Order Secular of st. Francis, with
Explanations and Instructions, and
Complete Prayer Book for General
Use, by Rev Clementfne Deymann,
O. F. NJ, New York: FIR. Pustet &
Co., 50 Barclay street.
For twenty years st. Francis Man
ual for the Third order Secular, was
regarded with favor and extensively
used by the reverend directors and
members of the tertiary fraternities.
Yet there were some objections to the
size and arrangement of the book. In
this edition the publishers have aimed
to reduce the size without emitting
essential, and to make the ar
rangement more convenient for use.
Little Manual of the Third Order of
st. Francis Translated, adapted and
Enlarged from the German of Rev.
Cassian Thaler, o. M. Cap, by Rev.
Bonaventure Hammer, o. F. M. FIR.
Pustet & Co., New York, 81 Barclay
street.
This little manual for the use of di-
rectors and members of the Third Or
der Secular of ST. Francis, is one of the |
most explicit and comprehensive ex-
tant, and enjoys, in the original, the |
of the Sacred Congregation |
of Indulgences, of the authors ordinary |
and of the Most Rev. Minister-General |
of the Capauchin branch of the OrdA'
of st. Francis.
Onward and Upward. A year book.
by Archbishop .Keane. John Murphy !
company. publishers, Baltimore, A
West Baltimore street.
Few men are better known in Ameri-
ca and Europe than Archbishop Keane.
AS preacher and lecturer he has been
heard with interest, as a
leading exponent of the religious
thought of our times. His ideal is the
ion-the div inc living and act
ing in the perfect human. The en-
bodiment of this ideal in the life of to-
lay has been his constant aim.
There has long been a demand for a
book that would present the quintes-
sence of his thoughts, This is now Of
tered to the public. 1t is sure to have
4 wide and hearty welcome.
In 400 pages-a page for each day of
he year-he unfolds in daily thoughts
he depth and beauty of the sublime
and the familiar things which make up
ife. Each month develops a new
heme, in the following order: Right
Living. Religion. Home. Education.
The Ideal Woman. The Ideal Man.
Social Ideals; America.
Progress. Art. Brotherhood. Death
md Resurrection.
Professor Egan is to be congratulated
IN his work as compiler and editor.
.
There will shortly be issued from the
,ress of the John Murphy company,
Baltimore, a book entitled 1.-The Lords
Baltimore and the Maryland Palatin-
Lte," being six lectures on Maryland
colonial history delivered before the ,
ohns Hopkins university during Feb
uary and March, 1902, by Clayton c.
Hall, Esq, of Baltimore.
AS the title implies, the lectures give
lot only some. personal accounts of the
everal barons of Baltimore, proprie- !
aries of the Maryland province, but
iso a review of the history of the
rovince itself, and the relations be-
ween it and the proprietaries. BY rea- f
on of the palatinate character of it's
overnment, the colonial history of
faryland presents many features of
pecial interest to the student of polit-
al institutions in this country.
The study of Maryland's colonial his \
Dry has been greatly stimulated and
acilitated in recent years, by the adj I
lirable publication of the early MS.
-rchives by the Maryland Historical +
ociety. under the auspices of the state
Maryland, which has been in prog r
ess since 1882 Twenty-Five years ago,
he only important printed books avail +
BILE on this subject were Bozman's 4
history of Maryland. published in 1887,
hich brings the history of the province I
own to the year 1900 only; and McMa-
on's Historical View of the Govern n
lent of Maryland, which appeared in G
81. But these books were practically e
ut of print, and copies were not al
avs easily obtained. During the last [ II