New Publications

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 3 January 1907, Page 17

New Publications

The A.C.T.S.— The latest batch of the publications of the Australian Catholic Truth Society (nos. 37 and 38) easily maintain the high standard of their predecessors. ' The Lost Child ' is a touching and beautiful story, which has been well translated from the German. The SSciety and tho Catholic reading public have been aliKe fortunate in the publication of the able and at limes highly eloquent lectures of the Rev. Father G'Dwyer, S.J. The first of these is entitled, ' Religion and Human Liberty ; Or,- The Bible the Charter of Men's Rights '. It traces with a masterly touch the great moial revolution wrought in old pagandom by Christianity, and disposes of the pretensions of rival claimants to the ciedit of the transformation. (Pp. 32, Id each.. A.C.T.S., St. Francis' Lodge, • Melbourne, and oi all Catholic booksellers). We have before us two leeent publications of the Re\\ Fa/ther Hull, &. J., the brilliant and scholarly editor of the 'Examiner', Bombay. One of these is -on freemasonry. It deals with principles chiefly in the concise -anid luminous way that makes Father Hull's articles and pamphlets a joy for ever, and, fox its compass, is easily the best* thing on Freemasonry that we have yet come across. ('Examiner' Office, Bombay, India-).— Another important brochure, of 100 pages, by the same author figures among the latest publicaV,°"f °L the Catholic Truth Society (69 South wark B i lflg ?.,^ oad ' : Lond O", S.E 1 ., 6d net). It is entitled Fortifying the Layman '. The able little work went wnh a rush into its second edition. It is an eminently ohoughtful and practical effort to find a means for fortifying the layman against the influences that tend to undermine his faith in our day. We can do no better service to piicst and layman than to recommend them warmly to ' take and read Father Hull's DOQK ,

A pleasing tribute to the memory of a great Catholic statesman, Sir John -S. D. Thompson, late Prime Minister of Canada, has appeared in the shape of a reprint of the noble funeral oration Ihat was preached over his remains" by the late Archbishop P'Brien in St. Maiys Cathedral, Halifax,, on January. 3, 1895. me neat fcfctie Hochurc is published by E. P Meagner, Halifax, Canada. It is prefaced by Sir Lewis <2f°sS? fine , ele S5 / 1° U" memory of the decked statesman,- and an appendix contains the tributes paid to his memory by Sir Wilfrid Laurier and others 'in 3 +?. On Ii mOn ai lament in 1895. We join in the hope of the eloquent panegyrist that Canada • may be the TTnnnr Wmoo^W mo o^° r r >f ma " 7 SUCh SOIIS aS &* Right Honorable Sir John Thompson ' - Matel C C a ' S acM f™ s + #"* us in • Na-bby Harren's riavs f 'mJ a l°- St ° f - hIS S6ries of sevenpenny i^argymoie . While perhaps it is as droll as these last mentioned, it has more < body ' -to it It natural Ms fn°t e f " 9t $ m aL the |/athos and *he realism of of his ;p? IKratl °, n ■ Play> ' The WaVd-hearted Man ', nor but it his a "h- nITn 1T R , ucce « s ( f » l ' Or^ and Green', climax. S y dramatic an ' d laughter-moving Stdnev? J;°",i'L Gille a . ml , Co - <73-7S- Liverpool Street, met with fl Z% rcce "f e f a of a work that has Sffi-Honw. ™ ?■ COT V rcce P«on from the press in rue Home countries. We refer to 'The Church anrf

tion of Pope S.t -Prths V., against ' the baiting of bulls and other beasts '. This is followed by the pastorals, etc., of" the Bishops of Niines, Uzes, and Alais against bull-fights. Then follows a lengthy of quaint animal stories and legends from the -lives of the saints. The volume concludes wilh the testimony of ' a cloud of modern witnesses ' (chielly members of ZooplAle Societies) in regard to "the work of the Church in discountenancing cruelty to animals. --We cordially recommend, this work to Catholic households' ''and .parochial, "school, convent, and college libraries.. . In ' A Holiday Canter Round the Globe ', Mr. R. Chisholm (Dunediu) gives us a chatty and interesting book of travel embracing Australia, Ceylon, Suez>, Italy, France, England, Scotland, Canada^ -the- United States, and the Hawaiian Islands. The book is- packed with interesting traivel-facts and v/ith the-" views and comments of a keen, observant, and successful man of business. It is well printed and illustrated. (New Zealand Bible and Tract Society, Princes Street, Dunedin, 190 pp.).