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SAINTS AND SNAPDRAG
ONS, by Lucile Hasley (Sheed
& Ward, $3.00), a selection of
the Catholic Literary Founda
tion and the Thomas More As
sociation.
(Reviewed by Wenonah
Chambers)
The contrasting moods of Mrs.
Hasley’s latest collection of es
says (one on "togetherness,” for
instance; later, an interesting
visit with Frank Sheed; final
ly, "Birds of a Feather”) have
left this reviewer with a swirl
ing head and a temporary sense
of unbalance. But we loved ev
ery word of it, and underneath
the humor one finds much seri
ous thinking.
This is Mrs. Hasley’s first book
in five years. It may become
even more popular than Re
proachfully Yours and The
Mouse Hunter, her earlier ones
which pleased a wide audience.
It certainly brings the reader
closer to the Hasley family, and
a delightful family it must be.
It is full of witty but pointed
bits of advice, for instance:
“Even if Paris has decreed that
we drape ourselves in these sad
sack dresses, let’s watch out
that we don’t become spiritual
sad sacks as well. I honestly
don’t think our husbands could
stand us both ways.”
Her disguised-in-chuckles ad
vice will be remembered long
after one finishes reading the
book. But you won’t read it and
put it away; it’s good reading
for those nights when you just
can’t go to sleep.
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FREUD AND RELIGION,
by Zilboorg, Newman, 95c.
Reviewed by Flannery O'Connor
This, the third of the Wood-
stock papers edited by Father
John Courtney Murray, is a
study of Freud’s atheism and its
sources in his personal life. It
is a successful attempt to show
that Freud’s atheism was not
scientific and is not a necessary
conditon for the practice of psy
choanalysis, that Freud’s teach
ings are in fact less dangerous
to religion than Jung’s theories,
which use belief in the practical
service of psychotherapy.
Dr. Zilboorg shows that Freud
was not a “natural unbeliever”
as Dr. Ernest Jones, his friend
and biographer, insists. In his
insecurity Freud constantly
sought faith in unbelief. One of
his most presistent interests was
the problem and image of
Moses, whom he wished to find
fully human and historical and
Egyptian rather than Jewish, as
such a theory would fit in more
closely with his own unconscious
attitude toward the Hebraic-
Christian tradition. Religion was
so disturbing emotionally to
Freud that he wished to abolish
it, and in order to do so, he cut
it down to a size “chosen by
himself.” He made the man in
the street the measure of reli
gion. Dr, Zilboorg points out
that such a reduction, if applied
to science “would make science
come off as an art of making
mechanical ways.”
This is a valuable study for
anyone interested in Freudian
theories and their compatibility
with Christian belief.
MORE STORIES FROM THE
OLD TESTAMENT, by Piet
Worm, artist (Sheed and Ward,
$3.00).
Those who are familiar with
Piet Worm’s earlier Stories
From the Old Testament, pub
lished two years ago by Sheed
and Ward, know what a gor
geously colorful book it is; this
one is the same — full of bright,
interesting pictures that will
capture any child’s attention and
impress the Bible scenes on his
imagination. The artist, an ar
chitect who lives in Amster
dam, drew the pictures in both
volumes for his own children,
Marianne and Huupje. Each pic
ture was redrawn until the chil
dren approved it. Besides the us
ual gay colors found in child
ren’s books, these two works of
art contain much gold, making
them seem rich, in keeping with
the subject matter. The artist
used gold, he said, “because the
language is like gold.”
In the earlier volume, the sto
ries began with Adam and Eve
and continued to Joseph and his
brethren. This one takes up
there, telling the stories of Mos
es, Samson, David, Elias, Daniel,
Jonas, and other Old Testament
figures, to the time when “Jesus
was born in the stable of Beth
lehem . . . And He is King of
us all forever.”
The simple narrative, printed
in legible handscript, leaves the
pictures still predominately im
portant. The cover is of soft ma
terial, with gold letters, in a
black square. End papers are
maps showing the route the Is
raelites traveled from Egypt to
the Promised Land, and Jerusa
lem during the reign of King
Solomon. The beautiful book
was printed and bound in Hol
land. Like its companion vol
ume, it will make a delightful
gift for any child with an artis
tic temperament.
TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL,
Charles Peguy, Harper, $3.50.
(Reviewed by Flannery
O’Connor)
Apparently it is a great ac
complishment to translate Pe-
guy’s prose into English. Mau-
riac once remarked that it was
a pity some one didn’t trans
late it into French. The trans
lator in this case, M. Alexander
Dru, has been remarkably suc
cessful in conveying Peguy’s pe
culiar and powerful rhetoric. He
has also contributed a valuable
introduction to these two Cash
iers which deal with Christiani
ty, or rather with the lack of it,
in the modern world, with the
progressive transformation of a
mystique into a politique, of
founders into profiteers, of faith
into power.
The first Cahier, “Memories of
Youth,” is a long essay on the
political issues involved in the
Dreyfus Affair. Peguy was an
ardent Dreyfusite. The second,
“Clio I,” is a disquisition to the
author by the Muse of History,
who lays the lack of Christiani
ty in the modern world to the
clergy. “It is no riddle. It is no
longer a secret, even in the
schools, and it can no longer
be concealed, except perhaps in
the seminaries, that the de-
Christianization stems from the
clergy. The shrinking, the with
ering of the trunk of the spirit
ual city, temporally founded,
eternally promised, does not
come from the laity, it comes
from the clerks.” Peguy was
in great measure instrumental
in decreasing this opposition of
liberty and tradition in France.
His is a voice which has been
listened to to the great benefit
of Catholic revival everywhere.
THE BULLETIN, “anuarv 19, 195b PAGE
THE PAPACY: Its Origins
and Historical Evolution, by
Paolo Brezzi Newman, $3.50.
Brezzi’s brilliant panorama of
the Papacy, its origins and his
torical evolution, translated by
Henry Yannone, is an excellent
volume for those who wish to
know more about the institution
that is the center of the Church’s
unity rather than about the lives
of the individual popes.
This authoritative but very
readable study traces the his
torical development of the papal
institution through its various
periods of stormy history to
ascertain whether it exists a
result of cleverness, intrigue and
historical circumstance, or of the
element of consistency and con
tinuance inherent to itself.
Through the primacy of Peter
and his early successors (saints'
the Martyrs), the 'early hersies,
the degeneration caused by the
struggles of the Roman nobility,
the splendor as the acknowledg
ed leader of Western civilization,
battered and harassed by schism,
the Reformation and Gallicism,
weakened by internal intrique
and the laxity of her clergy, the
modern Papacy emerges in all
its renewed vigor as the spirit
ual center of the whole world
these very facts are proof
enough of its divine origen?
Paolo Brezzi, born in 1910 in
Turin, Italy, holds a degree of
Doctor of letters from its uni
versity. He has taught philoso
phy and history (currently at
the University of Naples), is
author of many publications in
Church and political history,
consultant of the Sacred Con
gregation of Rites and a mem
ber of various commissions on
Italian history.
Although not a biography of
the popes, The Papacy, in an
appendix by the translator, lists
the popes with very brief data
for each one. It includes an in
dex and a detailed bibliography
of courses, documentary collec
tions, and works of both a
genera] and particular character
—- an addition to its value.
Fulton J. Sheen to the atten
tion of the literary world in
1925; because its emphasis is
on reason rather than religious
dogma, this brilliant analysis of
the modern flight from reason
appeals to non-Catholics as,well,
as to Catholics.
JESUS AND HIS TIMES,
by Daniel-Rops, in two volumes,
95c each — the book for which
its author was knighted by Pope
Pius XII, and which has been
translated into 15 languages;
called the finest life of Christ
written in this century, the book
combines deep learning and
colorful writing, profound spirit
ual insight and a keen eye for
picturesque detail.
FAITH AND FREEDOM, by
Barbara Ward, 95c -— a sweep
ing view of Western civilization
from its origins to the present;
its themes are that faith and
freedom are the twin pillars of
the West, that our free institu
tions depend upon religious
faith, and that the West itself
cannot survive unless both these
great concepts flourish.
THE QUITE LIGHT, a novel
of St. Thomas Aquinas, by Louis
de Wohl, 95c ■— one of the most
popular Catholic novels of re
cent years, this was suggested
to Mr. de Wohl by Pope Pius
XII; the author has fashioned a
portrait of the brilliant and
holy author of the Summa in
which the thought and goodness
and warmth of this remarkable
man are made understandable
and appealing to all.
SAINT BENEDICT, the story
of'the man and his work, by
Abbot Juiiin McCann, O. S.
85c — long acknowledged as thu
best biography of Benedict, “the
Father of the West, ’ for modern
readers, the life and teaching
of this great and lovable saint
is here, re-created by a distin
guished modern Benedictine
Abbot.
CHARACTERS OF THE RE-
FORMATION, by Hiliare Belloc,
85c — brilliantly presented por
traits of 23 leading personalities
of the Reformation; fascinating
profiles that bring the Reforma
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prose of one of the great literary
stylists of our time.
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HOLY PAGANS OF THE
OLD TESTAMENT, by Jean
Danielou (Helicon Press, $3.00).
(Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester)
“How can one talk about a
new creation to someone who no
longer recognizes that he is a
creature, or of the Incarnation
to someone who no longer sees
the action of God in the world,
or of contemplation to someone
whose knowledge of things te
limited to their practical .utility?
What has to be restored to the
world is the primary, original,
universal basis of religion in the
soul, and this is what the saints
we have been discussing stand
for."
So speaks Father Danielou of
his own book (my italics). In
further qualification this, much
should be said of Father Danie
lou. He is a man deeply absorbed
with the reality of God’s per
sonal intercession at all times
and all places in the lives of
men. He is constantly reiterat
ing, with intense missionary
fervor, that God is always with
men, more than through “natu
ral law,” and even where the
name of Christ and Hebrew his
tory have never been known.
This he previously demonstrated
in a beautiful book called God
and the ways of Knowing, and
now, Holy Pagans of the Old
Testament, he has found another
way to pres home his same ever
present theme.
In this book he discusses
eight pagan saints: Abel, who
made a satisfactory sacrifice;
Henoch, who talked with God
and was bodily assumed into
heaven; Danel,. who was a
prototype of justice; Noe, whose
faith was unquestioning and
wholly obedient; Job, who en
dured; Melchisedech, a ' priest
forever; Lot, a symbol of right
eousness; and finally, the Queen
of Saba, who sought wisdom
with humility, though in tan
gibles she was already unspeak
ably rich. We are shown how
each of these had a personal
immediate exchange with God.
Above all, it is the inference that
since these could obviously
know the true God without
knowing a Jew or the name of
Christ, no man can ever be be
yond contact with, a duty to,
the Lord.
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