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THE BULLETIN, September 20, 1958—PAGE 7 SULLIVAN-FLEETWOOD REALTY COMPANY \ RENTALS - SALES - LOANS 218 E. BAY STREET SAVANNAH, GEORGIA * \ \ MASON, Inc. OFFICE SUPPLIES - PRINTING Ditto-Duplicating Machines and Supplies ^ 18 WEST BRYAN STREET SAVANNAH, GA. BEST WISHES From JOHNNY HARRIS SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Take Home . . . Bread Cakes Splendid Because It’s Blended BEST WISHES 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 All Graces, with the hope that every read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. MY NEIGHBOR AS MY SELF, by Gustavo Corcau (Longmans, Green, $4.00). (Reviewed by Cecelia L. Hines) How does one review a book that won’t stand still; in which every word is meaningful and provocative, every phrase full of purpose, and the brilliant indi vidual style of the author not mangled by inept translation? My Neighbor as Myself is written by Gustavo Corcau, a Brazilian scientist almost un known in this country. It was published in 1957 without any particular fanfare but, since that time, an essay by the same author included in World Cris is and the Catholic (Sheed & Ward, 1958) has attracted a great deal of favorable atten tion. It is quite the outstand ing essay in this book, publish ed on the occasion of the second World Congress of the Lay Apostolate in Rome, which con tains a series of studies by well known men and women of dif ferent races. The Corcau essay, “What the World Expects from the Catholic” contains qualities of honesty and courage, truth and responsibility instead of the abstract generalization which characterizes most of the writ ing about the problems of the Lay Apostolate. My Neighbor as Myself is a unique biography. The writer, literally buried in scientific stu dies for many years, is shocked (when his wife dies) by the dis covery of the limitations ham pering his life. After a period of groping in the dark he finds that love. concerns no distan' cause but his neighbor and the very real present. His experi ences are convincing. The Bra zilian setting is new. He had to live “through difficult years to discover he was naked” and to realize “Christianity’s awesome seriousness” but feels that “to day he is unable to separate clearly the facts that led me to the Catholic faith.” This latter fact is discernible in much of the writing of distinguished con verts, Chesterton, Williamson and others. In a poem Chester ton says, “I am like Lazarus, and I live” — and leaves it there. Corcau does mention the debt he owes Maritain and Chester ton — one a philosopher, the other a humorist — and dwells at length on both with extrava gant praise and delightful ana logies. These two authors came together to his home when one of his Catholic friends brought him two books and insisted thai he read them. A Franciscan priest, a musician, who gave his wife the last rites, is mentioned on several occasions. The charm of the original Por tuguese text is kept intact by the translator, Clotilde Wilson, who is known as the translator of a book by Machado de Asis, The Herifage of Quincas Borba. GRAIL BOOKLETS TO BE A PRIEST, 25c — “The Angel himself has no such dig nity,” said St. Catherine of Si ena of the priesthood. This mag azine-size, 42-page booklet is beamed at the teen-ager with a decision to make regarding his vocation. It is handsomely de signed to attract youth’s eye, and it holds his attention with easily read, profusely illustrated pages. Questions submitted by eighth and ninth graders about vocations to the priesthood are answered. A tour of a seminary, plus a picture-schedule of a day in the life of a seminarian, give brief glimpses of preparation for the priesthood. What does a priest do? Both the spiritual and the physical aspects are consid ered, in easily understood lang uage and action pictures. This is a book to have handy for any teen-ager, or for parents of boys who wonder if and when they should permit their sons to en ter the seminary. OUR LADY COMES TO AMERICA, by Raphael Grash off, C.P., 15c. — Thosands of Americans have made pilgrim ages to the sacred shrines of Lourdes and Fatima this year. Not so many have visited the more accessible shrine of Guad alupe, Mexico, the place of Our Lady’s American apparition. The purpose of this 57-page pamphlet is to increase devotion to “The Mother of True God” of Guadalupe. Father Grashoff sketches the background and de scribes the appearances of Our Lady of the humble Indian, Juan Diego. An explanation of the miraculous picture she gave him, and the history of the de votion to Our Lady of Guada lupe from 1531 to the present, complete this interesting book let. — Margot Atwood. APPOINTED DIRECTOR ENFIELD, N. H. (NC) — Fa ther Wolfgang J. Fortier, for mer provincial of the LaSalette Fathers, stationed in East Brew ster, Mass., has been appointed director of the LaSalette Shrine here. He succeeds Father Roland Bedard, who will become mas ter of novices at the communi ty’s novitiate in Center Harbor. The assignments were announc ed at a banquet honoring Father J. A. Dutil, former director of the LaSalette Shrine, who is leaving soon for Rome to assume the post of Superior General of the LaSalette Fathers. T. H. GUERRY LUMBER COMPANY EVERYTHING TO BUILD EVERYTHING! PHONE AD. 2-3128 45TH AND BARNARD STOP! FOR SCHOOL SAFETY SIGNALS SAVANNAH, GEORGIA This advertisement sponsored by J. A. PETERS SAVANNAH, GA. 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