The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-03-14
BOOK REVIEWS.

Catholic colleges and converts ought
to feel obliged to promote interest in
writer's with whom most non Catholic
critics are perforce not in sympathy
! We say most" because the best of
! the critics have not been insensible of
| the beauty of the work of such writ
ars at Adelaide Proctor. Edmund Clar-
ence Stedman, for instance, says that
lit is like telling ones beads or read
ing a prayer book to turn over her
pure pages" Like reading the Psalms,
we should say.-The Ave Maria.
o
Three or four years ago, when pre-
senting to our readers the substance
of pamphlet printed in Manila, en-
titled 1.-The Civilizers of the Philip
pines" we remarked that nowhere else
could so much reliable and-at that
| time-greatly demanded information
concerning the Church in the islands
be found as in this anonymous bro
chure. But, unfortunately, every
means of bringing it into the hands
of the general reader had been neg
lected. Though issued with 1.-THE full
appreciation of the ecclesiastical au-
thority," it bore no date or name. not
even that of the printer. We urged
the immediate publication of a revised
edition of this welcome work as the
most important service that could be
rendered to the cause of truth and re-
Hgion in the archipelago. At long last
we have the qualification of announc-
ing a reprint of THE Civilizers of the
Philippine Islands, which is afforded
by Thomas j. Flynn & Co., Boston.
1t is much-bleated publication, still
a welcome one and deserving of the
widest circulation.-The Ave Maria.
o
The Rev. j. T. Roche of Fairbury.
Neb., has published an interesting and
thought-provoking booklet on Our
Lady of Guadalupe" Our readers are
familiar with the details of Mexican
devotion at this eminent American
shrine of the Blessed Virgin: but all
of them will enjoy Father Roche's mar
rattve and his incidental criticism of
that class of Catholics who are inclined
to discredit everything that pertains
to the miraculous. The Ave Maria.
70
From the Art & Book Co. comes a
scholarly pamphlet by the Rev. W. A. |
Bullock, o. S. B., THE Date of the
Crucifixion." The general reader will |
be interested, not so much in Father |
Bulbeck's process of calculation from |
the Egyptian Kalendar, as in his con- |
elusion that I'VE may honestly take for /
granted that Christ was crucified on
April Z, A. D. 30" 1t may be noted. |
however, that the date as computed /
oy Father Matthew Power, S. j., for
MS recently published "Anglo-Jewish
Calendar" is April q.
o.
Vizetelly who translated Zola's
books into English, has written few
sentiments that we could quote with
approval; but some words of his that
accompany the French scavenger's
asst novel furnish another warning
against mixed marriages.: Expert
nee has taught me what may happen
when man and woman do not share
he same faith; and how over the most
,assionate love, the sincerest affection.
here may for that reaSOn fall blight
ng shadow, difficult indeed to dispeI.
1t is certain that a difference
f religious belize Is a most serious
anger for all who enter the married
tate, and that it leads to the greatest
Misery, the absolute wrecking of many
omes." LET us not scorn the les
on, eve1 from one like VizeteIly.-
I'VE Maria.
Unless the probabilities fail HOPELESS
7, the memoirs of the late NJ de ,
-OHANH VII NC OHC VI tue ulOSL en- Z
oyable volumes Of our times. The in
er history of diplomacy is an appe- /.
zlng subject, and De BSvitz knew !
better than any man of his genera
on. M. Stephane Lausanne, editor of
ne Paris Matin, was the adopted son
the great journalist, and he has }
rtten an Introductory chapter deal )
lg with the childhood and youth of
e Blowitz. Other interesting chap
r headings are: "AIphonse XII pro
aimed King, The French Scare of
10, The Berlin Congress- Cam :
eta and Bismarck What the Sui
m Told Me- THE Exile of the French :
rinces" and How Bismarck Retired - :
The Ave Maria.
In what is known as the "Perse- ;
ltlng Printers Bible" the PsaIn7fst is =
ade to say: Printers have perse- Y
tied me without cause" Few antbors
no DO not employ the typewriter couId
silly make the same complaint. AsS p
lie those who suffer persecution Of :,
e hands of printers have Themselves W
blame for their reprehensible hand h
rltlng. How many. persons fail to dot
cir is and cross their is! And how NJ
W could distinguish their own RS ri
ON VS. or ms from us! In manI,
SEES, OF course, the fault lies with the w