BOOK N0TICES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 49, 9 December 1925, Page 17

BOOK NOTICES

g Catholic Principles for Present Day Needs , 1 by Very Rev. T. Walsh, M.A., C.SS.R. r Dwyer, Sydney. f /The learned Provincial of the Redemptorist Id fathers is so well known in New Zealand v that it is almost superfluous for us to point out his qualifications to write such a book |> as we have before us. He understands the J needs of the present day; his long experi ence and his ability have peculiarly fitted him to deal with them; and the traditions of patience and kindness of his Congregation, together with his native broadmindedness and charity contribute to make bis treatment of the thorny subjects of oentroversy acceptable to all. It is a book to bo read by Catholics and non-Catholics wi'U profit and we augur for it a large sale. Piggy in the Looking Glass, or Doggeral Doses for Delicious Doodies. Burns and Oates. Price; One shilling. A delightful book for the very little ones. A Great Mystery of Inheritance, by Constance M. Symonds. Burns, Oates, Washbourne. Price: 2/- net. Here is a delightfully written treatise on the Incarnation and the Virgin Birth, by an author who has the happy gift of combining the unction of piety with true scientific education. A Short Life of Pope Pius X, by F. A. Forbes. Burns, Oates, Washbourne. Price: One shilling net. ; Now that there is such a universal def, mand for the promotion of the cause of canonisation of Pius X, this biography of the / Pope of the Blessed Eucharist is timely iny deed. It is an extremely interesting Life, and we recommend it to our readers who want to know more about the saintly Pontiff. Back to Morality, by T. Slater, S.J. Burns, Oates, Washbourne. Price: 5/- net. In this, the latest publication from the I;-. pen of the learned Jesuit theologian, we have set before us the Catholic teaching on topics of actual interest and importance. The chapters on Communist Sunday Schools, Justice, Prices Moralised, Catholicism and Anglo-Catholicism, Freemasonry, and the Catholic Family are all worthy of study. The unifying idea underlying the series is that the greatest danger of our time is the lack of morality, and the author’s aim is to lead people back to the moral principles of Jesus Christ. j: Manual of the Children of Mary. Burns, Oates, Washbourne, Ltd. Price: 2/-. A new edition of this well known manual. It contains everything that was in the older : editions, but is only one-fourth the size. This should be a consideration with the young ladies at the present time who seem to have to carry everything with them in . their hands. Honor Thy Mother. By Father Alexander, v i O.F.M. Burns, Oates, Washbourne, Ltd. I , Price: 1/6. \ k 4pommences with some beautiful thoughts Hot/ Motherhood, and on our obligations to ?. our mothers, and proceeds to treat of the W Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin, first, as

the Mother of Christ, and secondly as the Mother of Men.

The Life and Work of Blessed Michael Garicoits. By John F. Makepeace, M.A. Burns, Oates, Washbourne, Ltd., London. Price: 2/-. A small volume of seventy-odd pages written, as the author says, for ordinary people, and as an attempt to portray a modern Saint in such a way that we too may know him and love him as his companions knew and loved him.