The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-08-12
OUR LITERARY TABLE

we have received from the publishers (Society of
the Divine Word Shermervle, Ill.) ST. Michaels
almanac for 1906 One edition is printed in English
ana another in the German language Along with
astronomical information usually found in calendars
there are useful tables of weights and measures nos
tage etc. Tables of feasts and fasts, saints caen-
dar, and well selected amount of fiction and descrip
tive knowledge to entertain the family
The first number of the Catholic Pioneer pub
hshed at Albuquerque, n. NJ, has reached US It is
a monthly of twenty-four pages with an engraved
cover, and announced literary. political and re-
hgous review" For the past thirty-one wears tba
Pioneer says the Spanishspeaking Catholics of New
Mexico have had admirable organ in the Reyista
Catolica edited by the Jesuit Father of Las Vegas
win the changes in the population, necessity has
arisen for an English journal Hence the establish
ment of the Catholic Pioneer The object of the Cath
Ole Pioneer will be to unite the Catholics in the fer
ritory that they may feel less isolated and may in
spre each other by their efforts and further to in
form non-Catholcs with regard to the work of the
cnurch that sympathy may be engendered and preju-
dice dissipated" We wish our neighbor all the sue
cess 1t is able to achieve in New Mexico
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The Cenacle" is the title to spiritual volume
containing fifty medtatons on the Holy Spirit
These were collected in 1885, and presented in this
form by the Discalced Carmeites for their spritra1
exercise For years the Carmetes of the United
States have made of the "Cenace in preparation
for Pentecost and at other times and they have long
desired its publication in English knowing well the
grace it would bring forth in religious souls At last
through the kind interest manifested in the under
taking by priests and religious to whom it has
been preached, the little volume sent forth upon
its mission.
1t is issued from the CarmeIite convent and print
ed from the Angel Guardian Press, Boston.
Race Suicide in France" is the title of the initial
paper in the August number of the Catholic World
The compilation of facts and conclusions derived is
the production of j. C. Monaghan chief of the di-
VISION Oh manufactures department of commerce and
labor According to Mr. Monaghan neither frenzied
hnance nor the question of labor is critical prob
lem for our statesmen those now confront the
French republic And the difficulties in France due
to the expulsion of religious orders and to the epo
tation OF monks and nuns nothing to the prob
lens connected with the depopulation of the
country.
Catholicism, and the japanese" by r. F. OCon-
nor, is another article. timely and comprehensive
This is followed by 1.-THE Poetry of Francis Thomn-
son. by Katherine Breezy; "Servia and Russian Di-
plomacy," by Ben Hurst; Tobias Green Tonsoria Ar
tist, by Jeanne Drake; Her Ladyship' bv Katherine
lyman; Professor Sterrett on The Freedom of An
thority,' by Rev. James j. Fox DID; "rhe Teach
ing of Christian Doctrine" by Rev. John F. Brady
NJ D.; Current Events, New Books, Foreign Peri
odicals.
Marie Donegsn Walsh contributes an interesting
article descriptive of the tomb of St Dominic at Bo
logna in the August number of the Rosary Magazine
Other articles are short enough to win the readers
interest this hot weather being finely illustrated
like The French Stage written by Thomas OLA
gan. Pho.
St Johns Quarterly is magazine of more than
ordinary merit edited by Rev. John F. Nulany LID
Literature and the Church the opening paper is a
pen picture of philosophers holding views agonstic
to Catholic and Christian teaching. Around the