importance, is well known to us all. The portrayal of the eager strivings for worldly advancement, the various vicissitudes of fortune, the love-making of the grown children, the influence of a deep religious spirit, as embodied in the admonitions of the church-all these come so close to our own experiences that there is a positive interest when we find them in print.

So true to life are Miss Conway's characters that we often think that if they should cast aside the thin disguise, we would recognize them and call them by their real names. Bishop McQuaid will find his double in the Bishop of Baychester, and no one will fail to recognize old Father De Regge in his counterpart, "the courtly Father Desjardins." The situations that are developed are dramatic in their interest, and are carried through with all the skill of a trained writer It is pleasing to know that the story is meeting with a deserved success, already has it run through several editions.

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38.-Father Mack is another effort to delineate "real life," but it fails to get at motives or to touch the depths of sacerdotal living. It is very light as It is very light as a story, totally vapid in its conversations, and extremely superficial in its estimate and delineation of character.

39. The present volume † is complementary of the Vie de Mgr. Dupont des Loges, by Abbé Félix Klein, which appeared some time ago, and contains some selected writings of that distinguished French prelate. Among them may be found pastoral instructions, synodic allocutions, retreat conferences, and letters of consolation and condolence-all breathing the deep spirituality, the charity and zeal, of the apostolic bishop. He was among the most loved and revered of the nineteenth century prelates, always alive to the dangers of the times and ever ready to spend himself in checking them, and whether addressing his clergy or laity, one who preached by example as well as word.

40. We have found Mr. Stephen Gwynn's The Old Knowledge one of the most entertaining stories that has come to our

*Father Mack; or, A Story from Real Life. By Leo Gregory. New York: Christian Press Association Publishing Company.

+ Euvres Choisies de Mgr. Dupont des Loges, Evêque de Metz. Précédées d'une lettre de Cardinal Langenieux.

notice for some time. The scene is in Ireland, although the story does not deal with any national problem. Millicent Cartaret, a young English artist visiting Donegal, captivates Frank Norman, one of the "gentry," and Owen Conroy of the peasantry, by whose queer "other-worldliness" she in turn is captivated. Which will she wed?

Accuracy of detail, delicate finish, and skilful craftsmanship combine to make this an artistic work. The descriptions, especially those of Millicent's landing the salmon and of the agrarian meeting, are splendid.

41. These short stories by Dr. Paul Carus are nicely written, and being the fruit of a vivid imagination, make entertaining reading. Their value from a religious point of view is marred, however, by the author's unwarranted views, which they are designed to inculcate.

The Chief's Daughter is a legend of the last sacrifice of the Oniahgahrah Indians at Niagara. The final chapter has a pantheistic tincture.

The Crown of Thorns is a story of the time of Christ founded on the canonical Scriptures and apocryphal writings. In the last two pages the author tells us that Christianity has lost many of its essential doctrines, and has incorporated thoughts, institutions, and festivals from other religions and philosophies. He should say "false" Christianity.

Both of the little volumes are well gotten up and illustrated.

42. When we know that Homer was a wandering poet, a poet of the people, we naturally look to his works for the common beliefs and practices of the times. With such a thought Dr. Keller, of Yale, undertook his sociological study † of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." Odyssey." He considers Homer as the most direct and accurate exponent of the Homeric age. The ethnic environment of the people, their industrial organization, their religious and ethical ideas; their concepts of marriage, of the family, of property, of government, etc., are all carefully considered in the way of a running commentary on the "Iliad" and the Odyssey." The references and indices are most complete. The

*The Chiey's Daughter. A Legend of Niagara. By Dr. Paul Carus.-The Crown of Thorns. A Story of the Time of Christ. By Dr. Paul Carus. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company.

Homeric Society. By Albert Galloway Keller, Ph.D. New York: Longmans, Green &

work will be of great utility to the college student who is just reading the master poet of the Greeks. It will give him a living interest in what might otherwise be dead pages, and a wider and more profitable view in looking upon the problems of his own day. The student of sociology and of economics will also find a perusal of its pages to be not without profit.

43. The author of St. Augustine, Philosopher, has placed us under new obligations by a little work on the spiritual doctrine of the great doctor of Hippo.* No man ever had a more marvellous spiritual history than St. Augustine. From a sinner and heretic to a saint and theologian, he gives us in his life as complete a development of soul as it is possible for a human being to present. So it is cause for joy that we are let into intimacy with such a soul, by this study of M. Martin. One of the best features of the little work is its copious reference to treatise and chapter of St. Augustine himself. If this will induce us to go back to the profound pages of the Soliloquies, the Confessions, or the City of God, and draw from the living spring itself the refreshing thoughts of the great saint, we shall bless the day that brought M. Martin's brochure to our notice. Let a man spend only a month in the study of St. Augustine, and he will have undergone an intellectual and spiritual influence which will affect him while he lives. In the hope that the Doctrine Spirituelle will thus bring this influence to bear on many of our readers, we heartily recommend the book to American Catholics.

44.-The latest volume of the International Theological Library is an effort to compress into five hundred pages the history, both external and internal, of the Christian Church between the years 98-451 A. D. The author has held the chair of history for forty years in the New College, Edinburgh, and has previously written Three Lectures on the Church of Scotland in reply to Dean Stanley, and The Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine. As a rapid sketch Professor Rainy's book has many merits. He tries to embody all he can of modern learning in his pages, and to be fair in questions of controversy. But it is inevitable that in so short a space the treatment

*Doctrine Spirituelle de Saint Augustin. Par l'Abbé J. Martin. Paris: P. Lethielleux.

+ The Ancient Catholic Church. By Robert Rainy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

notice for some time. The scene is in Ireland, although the story does not deal with any national problem. Millicent Cartaret, 'a young English artist visiting Donegal, captivates Frank Norman, one of the "gentry," and Owen Conroy of the peasantry, by whose queer "other-worldliness" she in turn is captivated. Which will she wed?

Accuracy of detail, delicate finish, and skilful craftsmanship combine to make this an artistic work. The descriptions, especially those of Millicent's landing the salmon and of the agrarian meeting, are splendid.

41. These short stories by Dr. Paul Carus are nicely. written, and being the fruit of a vivid imagination, make entertaining reading. Their value from a religious point of view is marred, however, by the author's unwarranted views, which they are designed to inculcate.

The Chief's Daughter is a legend of the last sacrifice of the Oniahgahrah Indians at Niagara. The final chapter has a pantheistic tincture.

The Crown of Thorns is a story of the time of Christ founded on the canonical Scriptures and apocryphal writings. In the last two pages the author tells us that Christianity has lost many of its essential doctrines, and has incorporated thoughts, institutions, and festivals from other religions and philosophies. He should say "false" Christianity.

Both of the little volumes are well gotten up and illustrated.

42. When we know that Homer was a wandering poet, a poet of the people, we naturally look to his works for the common beliefs and practices of the times. With such a thought Dr. Keller, of Yale, undertook his sociological study of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." He considers Homer as the most direct and accurate exponent of the Homeric age. The ethnic environment of the people, their industrial organization, their religious and ethical ideas; their concepts of marriage, of the family, of property, of government, etc., are all carefully considered in the way of a running commentary on the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." The references and indices are most complete. The

*The Chiey's Daughter. A Legend of Niagara. By Dr. Paul Carus.- -The Crown of Thorns. A Story of the Time of Christ. By Dr. Paul Carus. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company.

Homeric Society. By Albert Galloway Keller, Ph.D. New York: Longmans, Green &

work will be of great utility to the college student who is just reading the master poet of the Greeks. It will give him a living interest in what might otherwise be dead pages, and a wider and more profitable view in looking upon the problems of his own day. The student of sociology and of economics will also find a perusal of its pages to be not without profit.

43. The author of St. Augustine, Philosopher, has placed us under new obligations by a little work on the spiritual doctrine of the great doctor of Hippo.* No man ever had a more marvellous spiritual history than St. Augustine. From a sinner and heretic to a saint and theologian, he gives us in his life as complete a development of soul as it is possible for a human being to present. So it is cause for joy that we are let into intimacy with such a soul, by this study of M. Martin. One of the best features of the little work is its copious reference to treatise and chapter of St. Augustine himself. If this will induce us to go back to the profound pages of the Soliloquies, the Confessions, or the City of God, and draw from the living spring itself the refreshing thoughts of the great saint, we shall bless the day that brought M. Martin's brochure to our notice. Let a man spend only a month in the study of St. Augustine, and he will have undergone an intellectual and spiritual influence which will affect him while he lives. In the hope that the Doctrine Spirituelle will thus bring this influence to bear on many of our readers, we heartily recommend the book to American Catholics.

44.-The latest volume of volume of the International Theological Library † is an effort to compress into five hundred pages the history, both external and internal, of the Christian Church between the years 98-451 A. D. The author has held the chair of history for forty years in the New College, Edinburgh, and has previously written Three Lectures on the Church of Scotland in reply to Dean Stanley, and The Delivery and Development of Christian Doctrine. As a rapid sketch Professor Rainy's book has many merits. He tries to embody all he can of modern learning in his pages, and to be fair in questions of controversy. But it is inevitable that in so short a space the treatment

*Doctrine Spirituelle de Saint Augustin. Par l'Abbé J. Martin. Paris: P. Lethielleux. The Ancient Catholic Church. By Robert Rainy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.