NEW BOOKS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 18 June 1908, Page 24

NEW BOOKS

We have received from the publishers (the Catholic Deaf and Dumb Institute, Waratah, New South Wales) the new ' Manual of the Children of Mary '. We can hardly b,estow higher praise on this excellent Manual than to say that it has been compiled and adapted to parish societies by one of the ablest»members of the Australasian Catholic Hierarchy,' the Right Rev. Dr. Dwyer, Coadjutor-Bishop of Maitland. Bishop Dwyer s new Manual is the thing for which sodalities of the Children of Mary have been waiting. So far as our knowledge and experience go, it is the best that has yet appeared. It is compact in form, neat in appearance, moderate in price (one shilling), and (so to speak) full of just the sort of meat that is wanted It contains a history of the sodality, a list of indulgences granted to it, chapters on direction and admission, a complete set of rules in accordance with those of the Roman Congregation known as the ' Prima Pmnaria ', special counsels of piety, v directions for the annual election, ceremonies for reception, the Little Office of the Immaculate, a preparation for death, 20 pageb of well-selected prayers and hymns, and a useful index. The new Manual has the approval and recommendation of most of -the Archbishops and Bishops of the Commonwealth and New Zealand, and a noble work of Catholic charity benefits by its sale. We cordially commend it to Children of Mary among our readers in the Dominion and in Australia. ' Socialism from a Catholic Point of View.' This is an able and timely paper recently read by the Rev Father Maples at a meeting of the Petone Catholic Club's Debating Society. Some members of the Hutt Valley Socialist Society were present at the reading of the paper, and the Society paid the author the. high compliment of a request to issue it in printed form. Father Maples follows the sound lead of Catholic writers of recognised ability in the -statement ofhis theme, and modestly disclaims any idea of originality. But he has evidently given much thought, to his subject, and. he has succeeded in giving a clear, timely, and able presentation of the Catholic view of • a movement which has of late almost jumped into prominence in New Zealand , and is apparently destined to play a still more active part in the political life of the Dominion. There is, both for Catholics . and rion-Cath-olics, a present need for cheap and popular literature setting forth and defending in a clear and reasonable . and temperate way the Christian view of Socialism ; ; and Father Maples' pamphlet is a useful sequel to that which was some time ago published 'on the same theme as a pastoral letter by the Archbishop of Wei-' lington.