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The typographical setting of the work deserves all praise. One picks up the book fearing that its weight will make it unmanageable, but finds, to his surprise, that it is lighter than many a smaller book. The printing is large and clean cut.

HUMILITY OF HEART. From the Italian of Father Cajetan Mary Da Bergamo, Capuchin. By Herbert Cardinal Vaughan. Pp. 211. Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago. 1905.

The preface, by Bernard Vaughan, S. J., best tells the story: "The "Thought and Sentiments of Humility' were written by Cardinal Vaughan during the last months of his life. Being ordered by his medical advisers out of London, the Cardinal went to Derwent, where, as the guest of Lord and Lady Edmund Talbot, he found that perfect freedom and multitude of peace of which he had long felt the need.

"It was while reposing his soul in quiet prayer and feasting his sight on the fine scenery of this ideal spot among the moorlands of Derbyshire that the thought came to him of translating, while yet there was time, Father Cajetan's treatise on humility.

"For more than thirty years Cardinal Vaughan had known and studied that work, and it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that he made it during the last fourteen years of his life his constant companion, his vade mecum.

"What lessons it had taught him, what sights it had shown him, what stories it had told him, those only know to whom he revealed his inmost soul. However, even those who knew the Cardinal less intimately could scarcely fail to realize in their dealings with him that they were treating with a man whose growing characteristic was humility of heart. A more truly humble man I have seldom, if ever, come across. It was the humility of a child, it was so sweet and simple, and yet so strong and saint-like-may I not even venture to say, Christ-like?

"It was the sort of humility that could not go wrong, for it was founded on truth. Does not St. Bernard remind us that 'humility is truth?' It is a truth which, inasmuch as it is a home-thrusting truth, none of us can afford to ignore. It is the truth all about oneself in one's triple alliance with God, with one's neighbor, with one's own soul.

"To his own soul Cardinal Vaughan found so much benefit from the cultivation in it of humility, that he resolved at no small cost to himself, in the feeble state in which he then was, to gird himself and to go forth sowing broadcast, into the soil of the hearts of the laity as well as of clergy, this despised little mustard seed of which men speak so much, but know so little.

"It was Padre Gaetano's work on humility that had been the instrument in God's hand of helping the Cardinal. Accordingly in his zeal for souls he proposed to put it into English, so as to bring the work within the reach of all such as care for the health, growth and strength of their own individual souls in solid virtue.

"That the Cardinal has left us a precious legacy in this treatise on humility will, I feel sure, be the verdict of all who study or who only peruse these pages, done into English from the Italian of the devout Minor Capuchin whose death occurred two centuries ago.

"This treatise is a sort of last will and testament of Cardinal Vaughan, bequeathed to those with whom he was most intimately associated in the work for the good of souls. It is a legacy from one who made humility a life-long study, and who had more opportunities than most of us know for making tremendous strides in it, through the humiliations which he welcomed as most precious opportunities offered him by God for the salvation and sanctification of his soul. May he rest in peace."

PRAYER. By L'Abbe Henry Bolo, Vicar General of Beauvais. Translated by Madam Cecilia, religious of St. Andrew's Convent, Streatham. Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago.

We always prefer to let some one more competent than ourselves take the reviewing chair, and therefore on this occasion we yield. the pen to the Bishop of the author, who thus wrote to him of the book before us:

"My Dear Vicar General: Although I have rarely had the privilege of hearing your eloquent sermons, I have, nevertheless, had some compensation in reading your book on 'The Sublimity of Prayer,' a work of great doctrinal and literary merit. Those same qualities which have made your fame as an orator are noticeable in your writings. You excel in drawing from the Sacred Scriptures the very substance of their poetical style and of their divine inspirations. I find united in your works Scriptural knowledge and personal inspiration woven with consummate art. You grasp so clearly the meaning and the words of Holy Scripture that by your writings your readers are reminded of those old commentaries in which it is difficult to discern where the interpretation begins or where the sacred text ends. While your book contains the authorized Scriptural doctrines, it is also both modern and original. It is clear that, writing on such a subject as prayer, an author need seek no new theories; the essential has been said, and there is nothing important which can be added to the teachings of the fathers and of the doctors of the Church. While wisely avoid

ing new doctrines as regard the matter, you have admirably succeeded in presenting them under a new form. To a blameless orthodoxy you have added an agreeable and varied mode of expression, fresh comparisons and the attractions of a sympathetic tone. Believe me, I have no intention to address you with mere congratulations, but I venture to add to them my earnest wish that you will continue your literary labors. Heaven has endowed you with a precious gift, the 'gratia sermonis.' I beg of you not to allow this sublime talent to remain sterile. Continue to utilize it for the glory of God and the good of your brethren.

"Accept, my dear Vicar General, the assurance of my affection. and devotedness. FREDERICK, Bishop of Beauvais."

We shall not add one word to this, except to quote the author's preface, which we think proves the words of the Bishop and compels attention to what follows:

"When a man's last hour approaches the lips are silent, the intelligence wanes and finally the heart ceases to beat and the cold rigidity of death sets in. In the human soul the progress of spiritual death follows a like course; for if so many who have received the grace of baptism had not neglected prayer, their intelligence would not have lost the divine light, nor would their heart have been chilled by indifference and neglect of God."

ADDRESSES TO CARDINAL NEWMAN, WITH HIS REPLIES, etc. 1879-81. Edited by the Rev. W. P. Neville (cong. orat.). With two illustrations. Longmans, Green & Co., 91 and 93 Fifth avenue, New York; London and Bombay.

Everything from the pen of Cardinal Newman has a charm all its own, which is irresistible. Probably we shall not receive much more, and the wonder is that there has been so much to receive, and all so rich. The letters in the present book have a special charm, because they show us the mind of the great man in his moment of triumph. Like all great men, he was misunderstood, and misinterpreted, and misquoted, and doubted, and questioned, but finally the Holy Father elevated him to the Cardinalate, and the atmosphere was cleared. A small man at such a time would have tried to make himself large, but a truly great man is humbled by dignity and honors. Cardinal Newman was a truly great man, and he shows it in these letters.

"This volume is given to the public as material actually printed from Fr. Neville's MS., the staple of it almost ready for press at the time of his death. It virtually comes from him.

"It has been deemed best to issue, with as little delay as may be,

what stands complete in itself and forms not an unimportant part of the Cardinal's work. Indeed, some few portions are, perhaps, equal to anything he has written, and deal occasionally with subjects of special interest to the religious world at the present day.

"A prefatory narrative introduces the various replies made by His Eminence to addresses received in 1879-81, on occasion of the Cardinalate conferred upon him in the former year by Pope Leo XIII.

"In an appendix will be found the Italian and Latin versions respectively of two out of three letters given after the prefatory narrative; also a letter from Dr. Newman to Bishop Ullathorne, the terms of which gave rise to the impression that the Cardinalate had been declined; and three notes are added in connection with his journey from Rome, a projected second journey thither, the duties of the Cardinalate, etc. Finally a small index has been added."

ADDRESSES-HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL. By Frederick R. Coudert. 8vo., pp. 452. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, London. The Knickerbocker Press.

The addresses contained in this book were delivered by their distinguished author at various times throughout his long public life, and are grouped under the following heads: "Arbitration and International Law," "History and Biography," "Morals and Social Problems," "Social Organization."

We feel that Mr. Coudert needs no introduction to the American public, and least of all to the American Catholic public. Nor is any apology required for presenting his addresses to the public. His personal character, his education, his ability as a Christian Catholic gentleman and lawyer render his public utterances very valuable.

"The addresses and articles here brought together comprise but the recoverable fragments of the record of a life singularly broad and useful. Taken up mainly with the work of a profession which vouchsafes little leisure, the life of a lawyer rarely leaves any surviving residuum other than the latent influence born of every effort to make good the reign of law, order and justice. However broad his sympathies, however alive his realization of the manifold fields in which there is good work to be done, it is rare for the lawyer who does not virtually abandon his profession to leave any other record of his usefulness than the evanescent memory of an advocate's labors -brief as lightning in the collied night.'

"Mr. Coudert's intellectual activity and the wide reach of his sympathies were such that neither the science of the law nor the

active exercise of its profession, deeply as they engrossed his attention, could suffice to absorb the individual or to monopolize his heart and brain. From his college days to the last hours of his life his spirit moved, 'without haste, without rest,' through the orbit of all human interests, throwing out its illuminating sparks and diffusing its cordial warmth upon every endeavor and aspiration within its ken."

RITUALE ROMANUM. Pauli V. Pontificis Maximi iussu editum et a Benedicto xiv. auctum et castigatum, cui Novissima accedit Benedictionum et Instructionum appendix; Editio octava post typicam. 16mo. Neo Eboraci: Sumptibus et Typis Friderici Pustet.

It was our pleasure recently to notice what we considered the best medium-sized Missal on the market, which had come from the house of Pustet, and we are now glad to place beside it what we believe is the most convenient Ritual yet published. Those who use the Ritual constantly feel the need of a small book, yet complete, with paper and type that really make it attractive and practical. Hitherto we have been divided between the large Ritual, badly indexed, and the small "excerpta," which was constantly proving insufficient at some critical moment. In the Ritual which has just come from the Pustet Press we have the ideal book; it is complete, convenient and dignified in size, large enough to be used in the most solemn public functions, and small enough to be carried in the pocket or handbag. We appear to be striking the happy medium in liturgical books. For a while the very large were very fashionable; then there was a demand for the very small; now we are getting the golden mean.

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