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(Reviewed by Flannery O’Connor) Tihs is an exhaustive exposi tion of the kind of reality proper to paintings and of the relation of painting to the other arts and to the natural order. M. Gilson begins by describing the physi cal nature of paintings and goes on to the more abstract con siderations only after this thor ough groundwork has been con structed. His touchstones are the writings of the great painters themselves, da Vinci, Constable, Klee, but most notably Delar- croix whose journals he obvi ously admires considerably. The most valuable part of the book is the discussion of modern painting contained in the last two chapters. The essence of the art of painting is not imitation but the creative addition of arti facts to nature. M. Gilson be lieves that the evolution of modern painting has been a pro cess of freezing it from the bur den of imitation which was laid on it in the Renaissance. In his words: “Reduced to its simplest expression, the function of modern art has been to restore painting to its primitive and true function, which is to con tinue through man the creative activity of nature. In so doing, modern painting has destroyed nothing and condemned nothing that belongs in any one of the legitimate activities of man; it has simply regained the clear awareness of its own nature and recovered its own place among the creative activities of man.” There are 117 illustrations in half-tone plates and an appendix containing selections from the writings of Reynolds, Delacroix, Gill and Ozenfant. THE NUN'S ANSWER, by a Carmelite Nun (Regnery, $3.50). STARS OF COMFORT, by Father Vincent McNabb, O. P. (Regnery, $3.50). The young British Carmelite, whose previous book, Catch Us Those Liille Foxes, appeared about two years ago, has given us another glimpse behind the grille of her Carmel, showing again (as Sister Francis of the Poor Clares also did in her A Right to Be Merry) that the cloistered religious life brings great joy and peace to those who are called to it. This book is obviously meant as a reply to The Nun's Story, the much pub licized account of a woman who tried convent life and left it. This young nun, who writes anonymously, tells of her first five years in the convent which she entered in October 1951. She describes first the life and work of the extern Sisters, who share all the spiritual privileges of the enclosed nuns, while living in the unenclosed part of the build ing, acting as sacristans, doing the shopping and other errands for the cloistered nuns. The author spent her first few months in their company, be fore deciding definitely that her vocation was in the cloister. She introduces the reader to several of these Sisters, each of whom is an interesting personality, as well as to the Reverend Mother who is a wise and holy superior after the usual Carmelite tradi tion. The narrative ends with the young nun’s final profession in November, 1956. Like The Nun's Answer, Stars of Comforf is a small book con taining a wealth of wisdom. It was compiled by one of the late Father McNabb’s retreatants from her retreat notes. “When I first asked Father Vincent if he would allow the notes to be pub lished,” she says, “he was silent for a moment; then he bowed his head, murmuring, ‘If you think they would help souls, dear child.’ ” The beloved Dominican’s conferences are brief and informal, and will be priceless to busy people, as the following, example eloquently attests: “Our problem in life is to supernaturalize the natural things. There is no supernatural way of washing the floor. There is a divine way. We don’t super naturalize our actions,, but our intentions... Our prayers should circle round , our duties. If they do, our distractions will become the every substance of our pray er make that into a kind of sin. It is terrible to read books that is not good psychology... If you are working for a private in dividual, or for the Government, or for a husband, I hope that work is introduced into your prayers... That is the material of our perfection... Our prayer, then, may well consist, in its substance, in a petition for grace to do God’s will in all the duties of our life. . . ” How perfectly simple he makes it! And how complex most of us try, on the contrary, to make it! WORLD CRISIS AND THE CATHOLIC, a Symposium, (Sheed & Ward, $3.00). (Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester) In a preface written by a man identified only as Vittorino Ver onese, we are told that the se lections in this book were pub lished on the. occasion of the Second World Congress of the Lay Apostolate. But, enigmatic ally, at no place in the book does it say where the Congress met, or when, or how long it lasted, or how the material covered was presented. Presumably, the Congress convened in Rome sometime during 1957 and last ed a week, but all this must be arrived at by inference only and is a sharp irritant with which to begin a book. The initial flaw got over, the essays which follow are in many instances a delight or a revela tion. There are eighteen articles, plus one poem by Gertrud Von Le Fort, and an interview with Konrad Adenauer. Writers rep resent over a dozen nations, tak ing in the Occident, the orient, and both hemispheres. At a time when we in the United States are worrying about the “other - directed organization man,” it is something of a shock to discover a gentleman from Brazil in huge distress over the rampant evil of “individual ism.” Dr. Marge Klompe, one time Netherlands delegate to the United Nations, is the author of a vivid essay warning against the danger of the West allowing its aids to the Asian and African worlds to degenerate into me chanical handouts as opposed to personal Christian gestures. From an Italian mathematician, Francesco Severi, comes a beau tifully written synthesis of in tellectual progression from 18th century determinism (used sweepingly against Catholic as sertion of man’s free jvill) to today’s realization that determ inism, as such, was an ignorant presumption. The title of this book seems to be something of a misnomer as many of the essays included have no immediately discern ible relativity to a crisis. An article on the revival of art in European churches, for exam ple, concerns simply a current reaction to the accumulated bad art of recent generations. Also, it is difficult to see what an American movie star’s justifica tion of playing the life story of Helen Morgan, a singing dip somaniac of the thirties, has to do with a world crisis. THE RESTLESS CHRISTIAN, by Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B. (Sheed and Ward, $3.00). (Reviewed by Cecilia L. Hines) A few years ago, in a talk to students, later published in the Catholic press, the Reverend Kilian McDonnell brought out forcibly that the laity get bogged down when they read books of pious devotion written by the religious for the religious. Fol lowing as it did, Vincent Giese’s The Apostolic Itch, the first book written by a layman for the lay man who is seeking his spiritual growth through the lay aposto late, Father McDonnell’s state ment awakened among thinking Catholics a vital spark of inter est in the realization of the spiritual potential in everyday living, as a means of developing themselves as true Christians. Since then several other writers, both priests and lay men, have contributed to this interesting field, but they are not yet well known and their books have to be diligently sought out. The Restless Chris tian is one of these books. Draw ing on his background as a parish priest, and as a teacher of theology to collect students, the Benedictine monk author generously shares his practical knowledge of the needs, trials and tensions of present-day Catholic life, with the lay man who is striving to develop his spirituality by other than emotionally sentimental values. The book is made up of selec tions from a monthly column in The Sign; these are concerned with God, His word, His world, His work, and man. The chapter headings are pungent and arres ting; the contents both stimula ting and startling. Some of the captions are: Truth or Conse quences; What Happened to the Angels; The Almost Catholic; Postive Catholicism; The Lay man and Reverent Passivity. They open up the reality of holi ness to anyone who is even the slightest bit interested in the state of his soul, present as well as future. Instead of an index, the last six pages contain a fine list of suggested readings, divi ded into informative categories; 3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia Each issue of this Book Page is confided lo the patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces, with the hope that every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. THE TRANSGRESSOR, by Julian Greene (Pantheon, $3.50). (Reviewed by Flannery O’Connor) Spokesmen for the deliver-us- from-gloom school of Catholic criticism have found that this novel commits the unpardon able sin: it is depressing. It pre sents the situation of a young girl, innocent and lacking all spiritual resources, who con ceives a passion for a man who not only cannot love her but who is, in addition, thoroughly evil. It proceeds to detail her gradual realization of evil until the point when, penetrated by what remains a purely mental knowledge of it, she kills her self. She is surrounded through out by a cast of characters of whom the best lack power to help her and the worst contrive to force her situation. Some slight criticism can be made of the book on literary grounds. The reader is asked to believe in a passion which, while possible, is not adequate ly dramatized in its beginnings. We are told, not shown, that in a matter of minutes such a love is conceived by the girl. In the rest of the novel we are most adequately shown the results of it but the book would have pro ceeded on a less shakey foun dation had the scene in which the girl’s infatuation began been presented. However, Mr. Green is such an excellent writer that he manages to overcome most of the problems presented by his situation. The novel is written with great deftness and delicacy and with a moral awareness that comes only with long contem plation on the nature of charity. It presents the kind of situation which emphasizes the mystery of evil in its starkest aspects and it offers no solutions by the author in the name of God; nor does it offer the solutions of faith' for thds<rwho do'hot be lieve. It is completely lacking in false piety and is in every sense a book which has derived from the best type of Catholic imagination. ST. 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Out of her not inconsiderable studies, in volving much research of good order, has come this book. It is fact-filled; it can be read through or it can be used as a reference, the table of contents and the index being in turn quite orderly and complete. The several natural divisions of the book cover broad topics of the Chippewa as their histori cal religious background, their reservation system, economic life and problems, education and health. Detailed attention is given to tribal customs, a read ing of which makes one feel the Chippewa (or any Indian tribe for that matter) must of sheer necessity be descended from Levi. A concluding chapter deals with Chippewa Indian service in white men’s wars involving the United States. Thb volume is devoted almost in its entirety to the Chippewa in Wisconsin. The limitation, not at all hinted at in the title, be comes readily apparent. Even so, it is a matter of some regret that still other source material pertinant to the Winconsin Chippewa as well as to the Great Lakes Chippewa generally are not cited, at least as having been examined, among the otherwise extensive footnotes. The Ani- shinabe Enamiad, a periodical (1896-1911), and other Indian language publications issued by the Holy Childhood School press at Harbor Springs, Michigan, en joyed wide distrubution among the Chippewa in the entire Great Lakes country on either side of the United States-Canadian line. The periodical cited, which comes out The Praying Indian in English, carried considerable notice of Indian matters from the entire area of its distribu tion. No doubt, a geographic elabor ation on research and the cover age of the book would have re BELL INSURANCE AGENCY Insurance Agents and Consultants Barnett Bell - Horace Edmond 139 Mt. Vernon Rd., Box 178 Sandy Springs, Ga. 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Amateur cooks will appreci ate the author’s clear, simple directions, while the more ex perienced will enjoy the subtle touches of flavor so deftly add ed. Family dinners are planned for four servings; special oc casion dinners and luncheons, for eight. Fish, if properly pre pared, has a novel and delicate flavor, Mrs. Keating shows, and with imagination and a little ef fort its inherent tastiness can be brought out. This attractive book is hard bound with a colorful washable cover, suitable for use in the kitchen. THE LIFE OF SAINT TE RESA, translated by J. M. Co hen (Penguin, 85c). (Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber) The Spanish mystic, St. Te resa, is sometimes contrasted with her French namesake, St. Therese, the Little Flower, by the device of referring to the former as the Eagle and to the latter as the Dove. The Spanish saint’s writings are voluminous; she wrote by the yard. Her writings, long-established liter ary classics, are not exactly easily read nor readily under stood either in the original or in translation. The Cohen trans lation of St. Teresa’s autobi ography puts her work into manageable English. The trans lator’s introduction is generally sympathetic to the author and to her life as a religious. Teresa appears to us today as the type of nun who could show the parochial school boys how to belt out a home run over the roof of the Baptist church in the next block, who could man age the mundane and not so mundane affairs of a convent and school, and through it all develop and maintain deep, even mystical, religious experi ences. Her life was endowed in this latter respect that she came to know and to expect the actual physical presence of Christ al most as a walking and talking companion. Imagine her feelings when her confessor, not tho roughly appreciating nor under standing all the circumstances, ordered her “always to make the sign of the cross when I had a vision, and to snap my fingers at it, in the firm conviction that this (the vision) was the devil’s work.” But, in obedience, she snapped her fingers; however, she writes, “I did not snap my fingers very often . . .” The value of St. Teresa’s life is that it is written-in-haste in style, it is as if she were speak ing rapidly and more or less at random telling her life story. We can readily see ourselves portrayed in some, even though not all, of her experiences. Traffic being what it is in these days, we can appreciate her sit uation when she was about her work in the establishment of convents in Spain and the coach in which she was riding over turned in a ditch. “Lord,” she prayed. 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