The Irish Monthly Volume 35 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...page, all that he found was the couplet: O curiose, qui ter fuisti, Nomen meum non vidisti. This tantalizing policy we unwittingly followed last month in speaking of a certain " tiny wee penny booklet of aspirations," which has reached its eleventh thousand, though its title page modestly claims only six thousand. By mistake the book was not named. It is All Day Long: Ejaculations and Prayers in Verse (Catholic Truth Society, 69, Southwark Bridge Road, London, S.E.) There will not be any third paragraph announcing the name of the author. Nomen meum non vidisti. 8. Of Dr. Kolbe's Thoughts and Fancies, which we noticed last month, The Times of April 26 says: " There is about all of them a sincerity of thought and a kind of chaste serenity of expression which is often extremely pleasing." We are frequently edified by the careful reading that has evidently been given to a book in the " List of New Books and Reprints," which is the last item of The Times Literary Supplement, though the result of the critic's examination has to be condensed into a single sentence. The critics of the world are often more careful and conscientious in their generation than those "children of light" who might be supposed to have higher motives for discharging their task well. 9. Thomas William Allies 1813--1903. By Mary H. Allies. London: Burns & Oates. (Price 3s. 6d. net.) Miss Allies has fulfilled well a duty of filial piety. No one can read this account of the author of The Formation of Christendom without feeling deep respect for his memory. Several long and careful letters of Cardinal Newman add greatly to the value of the book. Chapter 2, with its very minute contemporaneous account of the wooing of a very different Newman, might disc...