The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-05-22
TWO NEW CANADIAN WORKS

the book too is much enhanced by it's
unique illustrations.
Of different but no less interest
ing character is book of travels re-
Gently published by the learned Cath
olic Bishop of Victoria, British Co
lumbla, Right Reverend Alexander
Macdonald, D. D. 1t bears the title,
Stray Leaves or Traces of Travel Z
and is published by the Christian
Press Association of New York for the
benefit of the Indian missions of Bish-
OPP MacDonald's diocese
confess that l have found exceed
ing great pleasure in reading Bishop
MacDonald's Traces of Travel as
they mark the good Bishops pilgrim
age at large through England, France,
Switzerland, Scotland, Italy, Egypt and
Spain. In all you observe the scholar
as well as the word painter and mar
rator. In truth, in this volume you
discern Bishop MacDonald's genius Of
observation and Celtic insight, for I'M
less you see things as, you travel with
Wordsworths inner eye' your OBJ
servations will be bald and of little
value. AS one reads Traces of
Travel it is clearly evident that the
good Bishop of Victoria sees things
with this timer eye" and this it is
which lifts his travel papers from the
plane and way. of the usual tourist
to the Sightseeing and real discern
ment of the world around us.
Bishop Macdonald is well known as
one of the most learned of the Cath
olic Bishops of Canada. He was bred
in that little corner of Nova Scotia
known as Antagonist, which has in
tellectually sailed the Catholic Church
in Eastern Canada and made it really
savory to scholars and savants. Long
extended studies at the Propaganda
Rome, have impaired to the Bishop Of
Victoria surety and breadth of scholar-
ship as well as the highest ideals, and
now whether Bishop Macdonald dis
cusses profoundly the Apostolic auth
orship of the Greed or the Symbol in.
the New Testament or deals trench
antly with Religious Questions of the
Day or as a pilgrim at large gives us
his impressions of the Arab, or the
Spaniard, or the Italian in his social
or artistic relation, We are sure to get
the judgments of deep thinker and
the breadth and sympathy of true
scholar
Traces of Travel has in it too
lightness of touch which adds charm
to it. Some travel raconteurs knock
you down with mere commonplace
facts which have no literary value and
little interest for the multitude. Such
writer's have no knowledge of human
nature nor it's plays and interludes
I have followed Bishop Macdonald
perhaps with deepest interest through
Spain, for it is but two years since |
had myself the pleasure of visiting
the land of the Don. Perhaps, how
ever, it is when the author touches
Scotland, the land of his fathers, that
he reveals his finest gifts as he visits
village, harbor and glen made pic
turesque and memorable by the his
tory of great strong race who still
preserve the sweet Gaelic accents of
their heroic ancestors upon their
tongue and its warm hospitality in
their hearts.
The price of both Travel Talks"
by Rev. Dean Harris, and traces of
Travel" by Bishop Macdonald, is one
dollar. The former may be obtained
direct from Dean Harris, East Toron-
to, Ontario, and the latter from the
publisher, "The Christian Press Asso-
ciation,' 26 Barclay Street, New York.
The binding and letter press of both
volumes is most creditable.