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FIELD FURNITURE 60. MARIETTA, GEORGIA BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 Old Jonesboro Road, Hapeville, Georgia Each issue of this Book Page is confided to the patronage of Mary, Mediatrix of Ail Graces, with the hope that every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. GROWING UP TOGETHER, edited by Eugene S. Geissler (Fides, $3.95). (Reviewed by Rev. John Schro der, S.J.) Here family life, in both its natural and supernatural ele ments, is treated. The authors, six mothers, four fathers, and a priest, are to be congratulated for their attractive and prac tical handling of the problem. They find children complex creatures with many sides need ing to be properly awakened, developed, and educated. They give many practical hints on how to help children grow up gracefully, artistically, respect fully, naturally, socially, music ally, spiritually, and apostolic- ally. 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(Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester) A year or two ago Sheed & Ward inaugurated a program for reprinting certain Catholic books of timeless appeal. As far as I know The Veil of Veronica has not been singled out for this honor, but if votes are being taken I hope the following short discussion will count. As it is, I can give no other excuse for this review except that the book is available at the Notre Dame Shop Library in Atlanta, and any promotional attention Miss Von le Fort gets, she deeply de serves. The Veil of Veronica is a novel, the story of the coming into the Church of a fifteen- year-old girl. A co-theme, close ly linked with the child’s con version, is how she effects the ultimate participation in the Sacraments of an aunt. In a sense the aunt is more import ant to such message as the story contains than the child; this is so because the entire action of the plot revolves around the curious fact that the aunt, though very early in life graced with the most undeniable conversion, has never been able to bring herself to accept Baptism. When the child Veronica is converted, the aunt herself is swept along at last to Baptism, but, again, she stops short before reception of the Eucharist. The final convul sive drama of the book is whol ly concerned with the accession to peace of this strange tortured woman. The aunt of Veil of Ve ronica seems a rare almost im probable case. Yet who has not a little bit of her, since in es sence nothing is involved except a refusal to admit God? Technically this novel is not a very high-toned achievement. The .author wrote another novel much later (The Song of the Scaffold, also available at the NDBL) which craftsmanwise is a very fine accomplishment. Yet I hold that The Veil of Veronica is really the more successful book. While it contains occas ional emotional excesses and passages that badly need prun ing, yet its basic energy over rides the flaws. On the other hand, if The Song of the Scaf fold contained such flaws of composition as The Veil, it is doubtful that it could stand up under the drag of them. The Veil of Veronica is not only that hen’s tooth rarity, a successful story of a conversion, it is an even rarer phenomenon; it contains convincing suggest ions of a mystical element. As a rule, doors that open without apparent physical assistance, ef fusions about “felt presences,” etc., are, even to the most de vout, more embarrassing than convincing. Not so Miss Von le Fort’s doors and presences; they compel respect and con sequently the sweet freedom to believe. Here is a hand to hold, a strong back to lean against. By infinite grace she suggests in finite strength, anticipating that same great paradox that we know, of God: That the most exquisite delicacy is somehow the ultimate in power. Thuringia, suffered m.uch from the German nobles of his court who did not understand her consuming love for God and for Plis poor. Heart-broken at the death of her beloved husband, who had set out with his cous in Emperor Frederick II on an unsuccessful crusade to the Holy Land. Elizabeth and her chil dren were driven from the cas tle, and she devoted herself to the care of the sick poor, be coming one of the first members of the Third Order of St, Fran cis, of which she is a patron. Her story is expertly told by Miss Thompson, a lecturer at the University of Rochester, au thor of other books for young people, and also a Franciscan tertiary. Ellen Tarry, author of the bi ography of the Philadelphia heiress who found her vocation at the feet of Pope Leo XIII, also has previously written sev eral books. She studied at one of Mother Drexel’s schools in Rock Castle, Va., and received her di ploma from the Mother Found ress herself-. She writes lovingly and gratefully of her spiritual mother and the wealthy Drexel family whose generosity to the poor came to such glorious frui tion in the work begun by their daughter Kate, when the Holy Father said to her, “My child, why don’t you become a mis sionary yourself?” PUBLISHERS COMBINE Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., now publishers and dis tributors of McMullen Books, Inc., have announced that they will continue to expand the Mc- Cullen imprint, reissuing certain titles now out of print and also adding new titles to the list. .Founded in 1945, the McMul len Company developed an im portant Catholic list including Father Robert I Gannon’s After Black Coffee, Father Moffatt’s “Sister” Series, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen’s Jesus, Son of Mary, Fa ther Vincent McCorry’s Most Worthy of All Praise, and Msgr. John S. Kennedy’s Light on the Mountain. After Black Coffee, Father Gannon’s collection of after- dinner speeches, which has been out of print for some time, will be re-issued shortly; By The Way, Sister by Father Moffatt, a new title in the popular “Sister” series, will be published this November. THE BULLETIN, August 9, 1953—PAGE 7 <• *1 f JfCXk FOREST PARK v; '■~4- ; BEAUTY SHOP HAPEVILLE PO. 7-4222 JEWELRY COMPANY 583-B S. Central Ave. 1254 Main Street HAPEVILLE, GA. Forest Park, Ga. Marietta Commerical Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 804 ROSWELL ST. PHONE 7-3761 MARIETTA, GEORGIA Obstacles always show up when you take your eyes off the goal. \ BEST WISHES F. E. A. SCHILLING, JR„ President and Treasurer H. O. SCHILLING, Vice-President and Secretary SCHILLINGS, Inc Manufacturers and Contractors ST. ELIZABETH'S THREE CROWNS, by Blanche Jennings Thompson (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, $1.95). KATHERINE DREXEL, FRIEND OF THE NEGLECT ED, by Ellen Tarry (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, $1.95). These are the latest additions to the excellent series of Vision Books, advertised as “action- filled stories of saints and Cath olic heroes for children,” and especially written for boys and girls from 9 to 15. Like the thir ty previous titles in the series, which won the Thomas More Association Medal “for the most distinguished contribution to Catholic publishing during 1957,” these lives of two heroic women are interesting and ap pealing. St. Elizabeth of Hungary, of course, was a typically medi eval “valiant woman.” Kath erine Drexel of Philadelphia, foundress of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Negroes (who conduct Our Lady of Lourdes School in At lanta), was a contemporary of many still living. She died on March 3, 1955, in the ninety- seventh year of her life. The similarities and contrasts be tween the subjects of the two books point up the pattern of sanctity and the variations in the means of its achievement. In contrast to Mother Drexel’s long life, for instance, St. Eliza- b e t h packed a tremendous amount of living into her 24 years, and was canonized just four years after her death, with her own three children at the ceremony. This princess of Hun gary, who became the wife of the young Landgrave Louis of Sheet Metal Work — Plumbing — Heating MARIETTA, GA. PHONE 8-7000 33 N. PARK SQUARE 1926 1958 Our Thirty-second Anniversary 110 ATLANTA STREET MARIETTA, GEORGIA