The New York herald., 1922-02-19

the C0mPGiiid de JeSiis, evidently
n reminiscence of Loyola's early
military life. and meant to him a
battalion OF light infantry, ever
ready for service in any part of the
world" 1t is another OF the curiosi-
ties of literature connected with
Loyola's life that the college ways
OF his time in Paris should be de-
scribed in the pages of Rabelais,
! passages that once were regarded
as caricatures, but which are now
known 70 be almost photographically
correct.
Loyola's chief purpose was to have
his order convert the Turk, and only
the failure TO get a ship at Venice
prevented him from carrying out
that plan. Thus it was that another
accidental happening changed his
life's work.
But, of course, the career of Ig-
natius Loyola was comparatively
brief out Of the nearly four hundred
years Of his orders history. And il
is with the larger. outlines, the out
standing events, that Father Camp
bells narrative is concerned. He
describes the initial activities of the
Jesuits in Portugal. Spain, France,
Germany and italy; the first op-
position TO the order that arose in
| Spain; the first missions to America;
the founding of colleges; the ro-
mantle story OF Francis Xavier's
missions TO the Far East; the Eng
lish missions; the famous battle
of the Books" in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries; the chief per-
sonages and events leading up to
the suppression of the society by
Clement XIV. on August 16, 1913.
How the Jesuits lived on in Rus
| sia, because Catherine refused 20
| have the brief published in her coun-
try (and by canon law this made it
nOn-existent) is told, as are the e1-
traordinary services to their re-
spective countries that we're per-
| formed by many OF the Jesuits who
were Jesuits no longer.
After describing the restoration Of
| the society by Plus VII. on August
z, 1914, the narrative tells of the
troubled career of the Jesuits for the
next 100 years and its gradual re-
covery to q fiourishing condition be-
| fore the outbreak OF the world war
in which 2,014 Jesuits served either
as soldiers, chaplains, stretcher bear
ers or volunteers, S55 of the French
Jesuits alone receiving 1,056 distinc-
tons. Several chapters are devoted
to modern missions, colleges and
| literature, this last one being an
amazing record and one eminently
fitting an organization that sprung
from the reading of n book. Som
mervogefs "Bibliotheca," which con-
tains the records of Jesuit literary
activities, includes mention of such
A
languages. my ballets written for
Jesuit college students to dance,
| dramas in profusion, South American
Indian dictionaries, "The Longitudc
of Milan," the "Orinoco," written
| in 1883; the "Polynesians" in 1867,
an abstract of the Chinese annals
published in 15S5 and complete
course OF Chinese literature in five
volumes. The famous Jesuit Rela-
tions," in seventy-two volumes, is
| not overlooked, nor is the Catholic
| Encyclopedia, a work produced in
our own city. And it probably win
be surprise TO many readers to
learn that the Jesuits publish n
monthly hero that has a circulation
OF $4,000 copies.
Although there is much that is
romantic and tragic in this narrative.
Father Campbell does not press in
this last phase with undue emphasis.
His style is colloquial and touched
with light hunor on many of these
pages. And he does not fail To omit
the tale Of an old Jesuit, who. while
on his way to Rome to attend the
election of a General of the society,
died in little French village. Mis-
understanding the use of the title
Of the head OF his order, the good
people OF the village gave him such