in the following pages is to pick out one or two of the holy Pope's more profound and fertile views and principles and to work them out in some detail for the benefit of Church students. What is required in the training of priests is to combine the wisdom of the fathers with the clear perception of present day needs. No instruction or exhortation addressed to candidates for the sacred ministry will be sure and safe if it is not grounded upon Catholic tradition. It is not safe to venture on nevel views, smart criticism and modern appreciations of priestly life without keeping the eye upon that interpretation of the Gospel spirit which is presented to us in the writings of the great fathers of the Church. And among the fathers there is none who holds so high a place of authority in regard to the duty of the care of souls as St. Gregory the Great. Leaving on one side the adequate consideration of the pastoral charge itself, I confine myself to the preparation for that charge so far as it affects the advanced students in our seminaries.”

LIFE OF SIR JOHN T. GILBERT, LL. D., F. S. A., Irish Historian and Archivist, Vice President of the Royal Irish Academy, Secretary of the Public Record Office of Ireland. By his wife, Rosa Mulholland Gilbert. With portraits and illustrations. 8vo., pp. 461. Longmans, Green & Co., New York and Bombay.

"John T. Gilbert was the son of an English Protestant father and an Irish Catholic mother who were married in Dublin in 1821. The father was of an old and honorable family of Devonshire, the same which gave to the world Sir Humphry Gilbert and Sir John Gilbert, and their step-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, each of whom received knighthood for his services to Queen Elizabeth. The great-greatgrandfather of John T. Gilbert was Edward Gilbert of Ipplepen, whose son was Edward Gilbert of Little Hempstone, who died in the year of 1797.

"The work done by Sir John T. Gilbert was little known to or understood by the ordinary reading public; his manner of pursuing that work was unobtrusive, while the amount and the results of it were very great. To give an outline of his career, an indication of his achievements and at the same time to suggest some idea of his unusual and many-sided personality has been recognized as a difficult undertaking.

"His life-long labors in and for his country were begun in boyhood and carried on too much and too often against wind and tide; yet his rare qualities of heart as well as mind secured him lasting friendships not only among sympathizers, but among opponents. So little was he concerned about future estimates of himself that he left few ordered notes to simplify the task of a biographer. For

tunately the archivist's habit of withholding from destruction current papers and letters which might possibly include some item of value for his work preserved records which have enabled me to attempt to produce a memoir which I trust will in some degree satisfy his friends and interest a certain public."

REX MEUS. By the author of "My Queen and My Mother." With preface by the Right Rev. Bishop Hanlon. 12mo., pp. 183. Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago.

"The author of this devout and interesting little book is already well known through former writings to a large circle of readers. The present book is a meditative work touching some of the clearly marked periods of the career of holy David; of the kind and good shepherd who was anointed King and became Israel's greatest ruler; the most distinguished of patriarchs, the best known of the prophets, the sweet singer of Israel and the man after God's own heart. There is no saint of the older Scriptures whose character has been so clearly and so fully given to us as that of King David. His own writings are among the best and most used of the older inspired books.

"The following pages make no pretence to be an exhaustive exposition of this great subject; the facts have been fully given in the language of Scripture from the first and second books of Kings, and striking analogies between the events of the life of holy David and events in the life of Our Lord have been sufficiently indicated to be instructive. The perusal of these resemblances and foreshadowings of what was to come in the life of Our Blessed Redeemer and of those who in their measure were to be made lige unto Him is so interesting and so edifying that the minds of many will naturally be led on to good reflections and fruitful thoughts."

MARY THE QUEEN. A Life of the Blessed Mother for Her Little Ones. By a Religious of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. 12mo., pp. 172. Illustrated. New York: Benziger Brothers.

Most children's books fall short of the mark or shoot over it. Most speakers and writers imagine before they try that they can speak or write for children. It seems very easy. The step from childhood to manhood is so short, and we remain children in so many ways, that we are tempted to think we understand the child's capacity fully. But experience shows that we don't, with few exceptions. Perhaps, too, vanity has something to do with our failures. Consciously or unconsciously, it may be that although we start out with the firm determination of addressing the child only,

when we see the man or woman before us we address him or her. Whatever be the reason, the fact is that most children's books on serious subjects are failures. It is especially gratifying to note an exception in the little book before us. The writer does understand the child capacity, and she gives the child just as much intellectual food as it can digest, rightly cooked and invitingly served.

The book will be most effective in the hands of the parent or teacher because it deals with the best of all human models.

IL LIBRO D'ORO. Of those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. Translated from the Italian by Mrs. Francis Alexander. 12mo. cloth, pp. 500. Price, $2.00 net; postpaid, $2.18. Little, Brown & Co., 254 Washington street, Boston.

Lucia Alexander, the mother of Francesca Alexander, whose "Story of Ida" and collection of Italian legends, published under the title of "The Hidden Servants," are so widely known, has in this remarkable volume given to the English-speaking world a priceless collection of more than one hundred and twenty miracle stories and sacred legends, written by fathers of the Church and published in Italy in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The collection is derived from four books: 1. "Selections from the Lives

of the Holy Fathers, together with the Spiritual Field," Venice, 1623. 2. "Selections from the Lives of the Saints and Beati of Tuscany," Florence, 1627. 3. "Selections from the Wonders of God in His Saints," Bologna, 1593. 4. "Flowers of Sanctity,” Venice, 1726. The stories are rich in sacred history and legend, and many of them have a deeply religious significance which will appeal to all spiritually minded people.

MEDITATIONS ON THE MYSTERIES OF FAITH AND THE EPISTLES AND GOSPELS FOR EACH Day and the PRINCIPAL FEASTS OF THE YEAR. By a Monk of Sept-Fonts. Translated from the French by the religious of the Visitation, Wilmington, Del. Revised and edited by Rev. Ferreol Girardey, C. SS. R. In two volumes. St. Louis: B. Herder. Price, $4.00 net for both volumes.

The translation of these pious meditations of the anonymous monk of Sept-Fonts was a labor of love to the daughters of St. Francis de Sales. They are certainly masterly in their simplicity and equally adapted to the spiritual needs of religious men and women and to make excellent reading for those who wish to make progress in the way of salvation. They adhere to the Epistles and Gospels of the ecclesiastical year, and will be a fruitful source of thought to many a hard-worked missionary in the preparation of his Sunday homilies. The translation has been extremely well done. There is absolutely no indication, outside the title page, that the meditations were originally written in another language.

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