The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-08-17
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
Fourteenth Volume Contains Many
Valuable Articles of interest to Cath
oIics and on-Catholics-One More
Volume Completes the Set.

The Fourteenth Volume of The
Catholic Encyclopedia teens with
numbers of articles of more than usual
interest and evidences perhaps more
than any preceding volume the wide
range and great variety of it's subject
matter.
Under the titles Sociology, Social
ism, Socialistic Communities and
Syndicalism is to be found broad and
comprehensive treatment of series
of topics of peculiar and momentous
interest now that the world is in a
sense weltering in the ferment of
radical and socialistic agitation. There
| is nothing newer or more up-to-date
than the articles touching upon this
question in the Fourteenth Volume of
The Catholic Encyclopedia.
The theological composition of the
present volume may be best seen in
the great article on Theology with it's
five headings Dogmatic, Moral, Pas
toral, Ascetical and Mystical The
article is of over $4,000 words and
constitutes a veritable treatise on the
entire science of theology in all it's
parts. Also of theological interest are
the articles Simony, Sin, federation,
Syllabus, Symbolism, Thomas More,
Thomas Kempis, author of the Imi-
tation of Christ, and Thomas Aquinas,
the great medieval doctor of the
Church.; besides being an admirable
biography of the latter, the article on
st. Thomas gives a lucid exposition Of
his principal works, chart of the
Summa Theological and a sample Of
the great theologian's method in treat
| ing a subject, all of which constitute
a novelty in encyclopedia writing as
well as valuable information not
easily accessible to the general reader.
Following the unique plan of the
editors to give articles on all the
foreign nationalities in the United
States, we have in Volume XIV an
| excellent article by Andrew J. Ship
man on Slavs in America, besides a
general treatment of the Slavs by
Leopold Leonard. Sioux Indians and
Sipebo Indians are elaborately done
| by James Mooney of the Bureau of
American Ethnology at Washington.
Mr.. MONEYS articles On the American
aborigines throughout the Encyclo-
pedia have elected universal en-
comium. The article on Superstition
will be effective in clearing away many
cobwebs in the minds both of Catho-
lies and nom Catholics, whose notions
are often very hazy upon this subject.
The States of the Church, that Is,
the territories once subject to the
temporal jurisdiction of the popes, is
given twenty columns accompanied by
an admirable map showing the extend
Of the papal possessions at different
periods of history in the eighth,
twelfth, sixteenth and eighteenth
centuries respectively. Ecclesiastical
Statistics and the Statistics of Relig-
ions are treated by Paul Maria Baum
garten and III. A. Krose, the latter
article containing valuable tables CIV
ing comparative religious statistics
throughout the world.
The editors announce that the last
volume, the fifteenth, of this remark
able encyclopedia will be issued by
next October, thus completing one of
the greatest literary achievements in
the history of publication in the short
time of eight years, monument to
the enterprise and industry of those
who have devoted themselves to this
work.