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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIX, Issue 39, 5 October 1922, Page 17

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The Hound Table, September, 1922. Five shillings. MacMillan, London. • As usual this British Commonwealth review contains interesting articles and an ample survey of the events, of the various countries concerned. While recognising its general value and fairness we are compelled, to object to its bias in certain matters. For instance, it does not give a true account of the troubles in Ulster, and it is even more misleading still when dealing with the prosecution of Dr. Liston. Darwinism amd Catholic Thought, by Canon Dorlodot, D.D., D.Sc., Louvain University. . Translated by Rev. Ernest Messenger, St. Edmund’s College, Ware. Burns and , Oates, London. Price six shillings,' In this book we have the first volume of a study of Darwinism, examined in the light ,of Catholic teaching, by a master-hand, whose scholarship and qualification for dealing with his subject leave nothing to be desired. There is no better work on the subject. The Confessions of Father Baker, 0.5.8., edited by Dom Justin McCann, Monk of Ampleforth. Burns, Oates, Washbourne, London. Price 3/6. Father Baker’s great work, Sancta Sophia, is well known to educated Catholics, and he has for centuries been recognised as a master of the spiritual life. In the present ■ volume we have set before us an account of his mystical experiences. • Catechism of thcSumma Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas. ■ By R. P. Thomas Pegues, 0.P., Member of the Roman Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. Done into English by Aelred Whitacre, O.P. Burns, Oates, Washbourne, London. Price six shillings. Pope Leo XIII. did nothing more likely to bear lasting fruit than when ho decreed that the writings of Aquinas should be made the basis of theological and'philosophical study in Catholic colleges and universities. The world has ; gone astray because it has lost hold of the right principles of religion, of conduct, of politics, and nowhere more soundly and eloquently have these principles been laid down than in the works of the great Dominican teacher, the Angel of, the Schools. Hence it was a true inspiration that : moved Father Pegues to supply the laity with a volume ' in which in clear catechetical form they might have ready access to the wisdom of the master-mind of . medieval Europe. For laity and for clergy it is a helpful and valu.able book. ' vw ■; <xX> — • Maintain mutual'concord with other servants; of Christ. —St.' Cuthbert.