The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-07
BOOK REVIEWS.

Exits and Entrances is the title
of new book by Charles Warren
Stoddard, to be published Immediately
by the Lothrop company. The author
presents "reminiscences of interesting
literary figures like Robert Louis Ste
venson, Bret Harte and George Eliot;
some sketches of travel and personal
experiences. 1t is a volume of gar
nered memories of the kind Mr.. Stod-
dard delights to dwell upon and of
which his readers never tire.
The latest of the Cornhill booklets
must be of interest to all who have
studied bookmaking and "Old Time
Printers Marks" Mr.. George Burwel1
Utley's handling of this last named
subject is especially good both as to
matter and presentation. The illus
trations are full of charm to the book
lover, and it is worthy of note that
church symbols were very generally
used by designers of printers marks,
showing that the association between
learning and religion was not broken
by the invention of printing.
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News comes from Shanghai of the
death in his seventy-seventh year of
Father Zotteli, S. J., famed for his
knowledge of the Chinese language and
literature, which is said to have been
more broal and accurate than that OF
any other European. Despite his al
vanced age, this greet missionary was
almost up to the day of his death hard
at work on dictionary (to be pub
lishel in ten or twelve volumes) of the
Chinese language, covering almost all
the vast field of it's difficult literature.
A set of Father Zottoli's Latin trans
| lations of the Chinese classics, which
holds an honorel place in our library,
is perhaps the only one in the United
! States.
A. reviewer who has gone carefully
| through eX-President Kruger's Me-
moirs" finds the rugged personality
| of the author reflected on every page
mot pretty to look lat, mark you, nor
thing to be set to music; a man
more apt to take off his coat to an
affront than his hat to a coat farms"
A description altogether consistent
with the character of the 'old Lion of
the Transvaal," who, when an Eng
lish lord was being prestned to him,
| interrupted his long account of his
lordship's imposing pedigree with the
remark: Il was a cowherd AMI my
| father a farmer
The first of a new series of Catholic
catechisms edited by the Rev. Francis
j. Butler of the archdiocese of Boston
| has made its appearance. 1t is intend
ed for the use of first confession and
| first communion classes. The purpose
of this Holy Family series, as it is
| called, is to render the catechism of
/ the third plenary council of Baltimore
more serviceable for beginners and to
supply what seems lacking in it for
advanced classes of Christian doctrine.
o.
! st. Augustine and His Age. By To-
| seph McCabe. New York: G.. P. Put
| nam's Sons, $500 net.
| Like the earlier monograph on Abe
lard, this Life of st. Augustine" is
not volume of series made to order.
but is written from the authors heart
and from fullness of knowledge. 1t has
: not quite the unique interest of the
| Abelard for several reasons. above all
for the reason that it's subject is not
| 80 perfectly sympathetic to the writer.
| Ihere is, too, some confusion here and
there In his plan, notably where in
balancing the good and evil of the age
(, ne leaves the reader in bewildered nm
certainty as to whether morals had
! grown purer or more corrupt under the
caesars. In his account of Manicheism
ne mas let Slip the opportunity of evok
ing picture of strange and fascinat
1 ing interest such as might easily have
peen drawn. from the controversial
WORKS OF st. Augustine. Nevertheless
the book as a whole, the portraiture
OF the Bishop of Hippo himself and the
description of the times, is a brilliant
ana mastery piece of work 1t is bet
| ter realing by far than most novels