INNISFAIL! INNISFAIL! INNISFAIL!

New Zealand Tablet, 29 October 1908, Page 15

INNISFAIL! INNISFAIL! INNISFAIL!

An interesting Prize Book. I trust your meritorious labor may be attended with complete success. CARDINAL MORAN.

It contains a large amount of useful, instructive, and interesting matter, an elevating moral tone, some genuinely thrilling chapters, and a high standard of literary merit throughout. I will recommend it as a fine type of Prize Book for our schools, primary and select, throughout the diocese. . . « Innisfail ,' is a really good book, and has come to stay. JOHN GALLAGHER, Bishop of GoulburnT"

Your sketches arc very graphic and lifelike, and I could^bless you for the kind old Irish way in which you speak of the old land and people. ' CANON SHEEHAN, Author of 'My New Curate,' etc."

I am highly pleased with your book. Apart from my personal knowledge of some of the actors, especially the chief, there are touches of descriptive power on ordinary household affairs which do you infinite credit. PATRICK PHELAN, V.G., St. Patrick's, Melbourne.

The book has genuine, eloquent, and dramatic power, and a force which makes the nerves occasionally tingle. DUBLIN FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. Father Hickey writes in an unconventional, virile style, and his book bears the impress of a strong and distinct individuality. THE AUSTRAL LIGHT.

The pictures of priests and people are drawn from life, ,and it is cheering and edifying to be introduced to the company of worthies py so genial a guide as the Reverend Author. IRISH INDEPENDENT. The characters are faithfully drawn, and are not unworthy to be placed beside some of the portraits of Irish clerics in Canon Sheehan's inimitable gallery. 7HE SOUTHERN CROSS. , The conversations are teeming with interest. . . There -is not a part of ' Innisfail ' but will interest any reader who can " appreciate such natural sensations as one finds in ' My New Curate,' conveyed with the quiet force begotten of a lingering love of places and persons which time and distance seem only to have strengthened. SYDNEY FREEMAN'S JOURNAL. An admirable tale ! , " M. J. MURPHY, D.D., V.G., Maryborough, Ireland. Price, 4s- per copy, post free; 3s 6d post free to Catholic .Colleges, Convents, and Catholic Schools throughout Australia.