South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-19

was level, blOssoming clover fields
lay still IN the lap Of the MINDLESS
day, and wide ridges Of potatoes
were covered with stalks that stood
matted together over the black soil
and glimmering through the
bushes that grew on its banks. or
smooth and shining as silver in the
open spaces, the stream where the
boys had been fishing went songless
10 the river"
Descriptions Given.
In the sketch. "A Glimpse OF the
Sea" you have this: 1T was so
calm, every green leaf on the naples
back in the chapel yard lay motion
less in the heat; the smoke from the
mill chimney climbed straight up till
IL vanished near the blue heavens;
the court house clock rang nine ana
every stroke came 20 Us unmixed
with any other sound"
Memory Sketches" is the story OF
a priest, Father John: or better il
is a picture OF Irish life, with Father
John unobstrusiyely apr caring
throughout. He must be there. for
Irish life is parish life, and in the
parish the priest is the comforter
and guide and Judge and protector
Of all. We may say OF him, as the
returned wanderer in the chapter
called THE Stranger" says Of Father
Clancy, "Ah, he was a man with a
heart more like the heart OF Christ
than any other man I ever knew.
'Tis TO wonder we Irish at home and
overseas love the priest. for I tell
you they have stood between us and
annihilation."
Throughout the sketches, we see
a Tntz 20.
the picture He is at the Sick-b bed,
he instructs the half-witted boy in
the things Of God. he corrects the
somewhat wayward. he sympathizes
with the Borrowing, helps the poor,
chides the superstitious. reasons
with their failings, rejOices in their
victories and their loves. He Is all
for his people. His whole attitude
is crystaliZed in the chatter "Choos-
ing the People"
Erin's Smile and Fear.
On laying down this little volume
one will say 20 oneself, ''Wiu ireland
always be this way?" II Is not ex-
actly a bright question, but there
are sad parts in this book. one is
taken far away from the hustle of
American life, like into eternity.
And far-away things and eternity
aA = HdAAs 40 It dAAAtl IOlll says dAAtI
visiting the turf toilers near Knock
anara by the Sea, Brilliant essay
lists and phrase making orators
call you the people Of etenity; God
knows you deserve to be! You have
little OF the things of the time" They
are the people Of eternity. In the
new era there will be change q?
I'VE talk about a new day and a
new dawn" muses. Father John.
but in the light OF the new day,
shall we have the sweetness and the
ratience and cheerfulness and the
dear faith that has set our race
apart along the trying years? How
will the new wine set in the old
cask ?"
The answed to this question is in
the fact that this people is "a people
of eternity" and so their spirit can
not ole. The answer il in the fact
that we have so delightful a book as
this latest from the pen of Father
Carroll.
To anyone who loves leisured and
orderly writing, who has fondness
for restrained, Lensive description.
who appreciates humor that is in
simulated rather than emphasized,
who has ear for the sweet. low
notes. 20 such a one we promise a
JOY when he comes upon Memory
Sketches"