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THE WEDDED HUSBAND,
by Mary O’Connor (Houghton,
Mifflin Co., $3.50).
(Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester)
This is a pleasantly written
novel (and only a modestly am
bitious one) by an English
housewife who is probably as
lovable a dear as ever sat down
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to a typewriter. Her warmth,
her wit, her flat-footed charm
quite bowl one over. Yet her
book is an alarming one, and
not, it would seem, for any rea
sons she ever meant.
The book focuses around the
fact that the protagonist, the
wife of a Grey-Flannel-Suit-
Engiish version, is turned sour
and full of resentment of an
other woman who has come into
her husband’s life. Miss O’Con
nor’s novel offers no graphic de
scription of what the affair
amounts to, nor does it even re
solve the end of the affair; in
stead, the author uses it for no
purpose at all except to bring
the Roman Catholic heroine from
a muted hatred to love — and
the intercession of prayer — for
the woman who has taken her
husband. It is a good point, a
thoroughly worthy theme, and
happily the author succeeds, if
not exactly with neon brilliance,
at least with a very satisfying
British sturdiness.
The alarming aspect of the
book, however, is that it appears
to come to terms with all the
familiar Grey-Flannel-Suit dis
eases . . . over-drinking, over
spending, over-socializing, etc.
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Halley says we must be satisfied
with what we are . . . it’s pride
not to be,” by which somehow in
devious route it comes to mean
simply not making any genuine
effort to tie up the painfully
loose ends of the way of
life involved. Having tapped the
wine-cask repeatedly on the eve
of Good Friday, heroine Mollie
goes home and thinks earnestly
of how sadly she has misspent
the holy day; yet no subsequent
actions appear to be much af
fected by this half hour of fume-
haloed remorse. There can be
no doubt of the importance to
Mollie of her religion; what is
in question is how much she is
willing to think herself capable
of paying back into it. By this
I do not mean to present the
Jansenist’s frigid face to, the au
thor or her heroine, both of
whom I take to be uncommonly
generous and charming, but 1
do mean to state alarm at this
limp resignation to a way of
life that, if not definitely evil,
is surely morally flabby. The
qualified redemption of Miss O’
Connor’s Mollie, unfortunately,
scoops up only a negligible
bucket from the sea of tepid
swill which is the world she too
unprotestingly accepts.
A DICTIONARY OF SAINTS,
compiled by Donald Attwater,
Kenedy, $3.95.
(Reviewed by Rev. John
Schroder, S.J.)
Based on Butler’s Lives of ihe
Saints, this book contains a brief
but accurate introduction to
2,500 saints and beati. The
sketches are brief, like a ‘‘who’s
who,” and therein lies the book’s
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first merit One need not wade
through a jungle of facts to
learn who was St. Paphnutius,
for instance, and what he did.
The book is also accurate, treat
ing hagiography with the criti
cal eye of the Bollandists (that
select group of European Jesuits
whose life work is the separa
tion of fiction from fact in the
lives of the saints). The complier
consulted their work in writing
his dictionary. A typical ex
ample is his treatment of my
Confirmation patrion, St. Pan-
eras: “There is no reliable in
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eras, who gave his name to a
church and so to a borough
and railway station in London.
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boy-martyr is a fabrication, but
a martyr called Pancras was
certainly buried in the cemetery
of Calepodius in Rome.”
ORDER AND HISTORY, Vol.
II, “The World of the Polis,”
Eric Voegelin, Louisiana State
University Press, $6.00.
(Reviewed by Flannery
O’Connor)
In the first volume of Order
and History, Eric Voegelin trac
ed the problems of order in Isra
el from its beginnings with the
chosen people through to its
climatic symbols of the Suffer
ing Servant and the exodus of
Israel from its concrete self. In
Israel this was never a speculat
ive movement; only in Deutero-
Isaiah did there appear any
thing approaching a theoretical
treatment of the problem. In the
case of Greek order, treated in
this second volume of the study,
the movement traced is one
from myth to speculation. “. . .
the society itself, as well as the
course of its order, is constituted
in retrospect from its end.” The
Greek experience of order
comes finally through its articu
lation in the symbolic form of
philosophy and philosophy aris
es as a symbol of universally
valid order from the orbit of the
Greek city-state.
In this volume Voegelin fol
lows the Hellenic consciousness
of history as it is motivated by
the experience of crisis. Where
the Israelite consciouness of his
tory came about by the experi
ence of divine revelation, the
Greek came about by the experi
ence of disorder forcing an un
derstanding of order. Voegelin
follows this process in Greek
culture from the myths of Ho
mer and Hesiod, masterfully an
alyzed, through to the history of
Thucidydes w h o, following
Greek medicine, attempted em
piricism.
Large sections of this volume
wdl interest only Greek science,
scholars or professional students
of history and political science,
but there are other parts, such
as those dealing with Homer
and Aeschylus, which will be of
interest to anyone taking pleas
ure in literature. “The World
of the Polis” leads to the study
of Plato and Aristotle with
which the third volume will
deal.
THE NATURE OF BELIEF,
M. C. D’Arcy, S.J., Herder, $3.95.
(Reviewed by Flannery
O’Connor)
This is a new and revised
edition of a study first published
in 1931, dealing with the proper
grounds for certainty in relig
ious belief. From a very read
able first chapter on the present
condition of belief, Father D’
Arcy proceeds to analyze New
man’s Grammar of Assent. His
critique of Newman’s theories of
belief is technical and occupies
three chapters of reading that
will be difficult for anyone who
is not a professional student of
philosophy and well-acquainted
with Newman. In the second
part of the book he examines
supernatural faith and its rela
tion to desire and love. One
chapter. “Empiricism and Cer
tainty,” has been added since
the 1931 edition, this having
been made necessary by those
changes in modern thought
which have shaken the positivist
principle of scientific certainty.
Tins is a valuable book for those
who have the time to study it
but it will not yield itself readi
ly to the casual reader.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
IN THE MODERN WORLD, by
E. E. Y. Hales (Hanover House,
$4.50).
If, after reading such a book
as this, one wonders at the in
tensity and the constancy with
which the Church has always
been opposed, t. h e thoughtful
reader may conclude with Hil
aire Belloc that “permanent hat
red of the Catholic faith ... is
inseparable from the existence
of the Church on Earth,” that
there is an “intense force never
absent throughout the centuries;
hatred of the Bride . . . and of
the Bridegroom — the force
which produced Calvary.”
Mr. Hales is quite aware of
this force, although he does not
advert directly to it. His pur
pose, he says, has been “to look
at the life of the Church, in
the last two centuries, as a
whole, in order that we may un
dertake what it was she was
struggling for, what her influ
ence was, and w-hy she acted in
a certain recognizable way in
her social and political rela
tions.”
A specialist in nineteenth cen
tury history, Mr. Hales is known
for his earlier books, Pio Nomo
and Mazzirsi and the Secret So
cieties. He also holds a position
with the Ministry of Education
in London. In his new book be
tells the story of the Church
since the French Revolution
from three complimentary ap
proaches — the European story,
the American story, and the
doctrinal story, each of which
reacts on the other.
Beginning with the Ancipnl
Regime, he traces the history of
the Church through the Revolu
tion, the era of Napoleon, and
the conflicts that followed in
various European states up to
1870 before turning to discuss
the Church in America before
and after the Irish immigration.
He treats skillfully Pius IX’s
dealings with Mazzini in Italy,
the loss of the Papal States, the
Syllabus of Errors, and the Vat
ican Council.
It is noticable that Mr. Hales
is of the opinion that the Church
ultimately gained far more than
she lost by the separation of
Church and State, even in coun
tries predominantly vCatholic;
yet he keeps a balanced judg
ment throughout his book as he
repeatedly restates this opinion.
Discussing the Syllabus too, he
freely admits that “tactically
speaking, the issue of the Syl
labus was a move whose wis
dom may well be doubted,” but
he proceeds to clarify the issues
at stake and the reasons for the
condemnation which “profound
ly shocked opinion in France,
England, and America, both in
side and outside the Church.”
In his final chapters, Mr.
Harles deals with “American
ism.” “Modernism,” the social
question and Rerum Novarum,
Bismarck’s Kultu.rkampf. and
succeeding problems of this cen
tury in all parts of the world.
Discussions of the pontificates
of Pius, XT and Pius XTT. which
included the two World Wars,
and the increasingly diabolical
forces that .continue to threaten
the very foundations of the
Church and western civilization
alike, brins the reader un to the
present. The dangers of Com
munism have been recognized,
Mr. Hales thinks, both by the
Church and the free nations,
widely enough so that together
they “may survive the storm.”
His book is exciting reading.
His explanations of little under
stood events and papal policies
are rewarding. His conclusions
are thoughtful and thought pro
voking. His manner of writing
history is skillful and scholar
ly, yet never dull or humorless.
His book should truly fill a gap
in current historical literature,
as the book jacket predicts.
INTRODUCTION TO WEST
ERN PHILOSOPHY, by Russell
Coleburt (Sheed & Ward, $4.00).
(Reviewed by Rev. John
Schroder, S. J.)
This is a simple concise ex
planation of the evolution of
philosophy. It contains the prob
lems raised and the solutions
given by such pioneers of
speculation as Parmenides,
Heraclitus, Socrates. Plato and
Aristotle. The book has two
uses. First it is a clear and easy
introduction to philosophy for
the neophyte; and, secondly, the
college graduate who majored
in philosophy and sometimes
wishes that he could refresh
his philosophic knowledge will
find this book the answer to
his wish. The subjefct matter is
not limited to Hellenic Metaphy
sicians. The modern gaints of
phylosophy and psychiatry are
also interestingly treated.
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lots of expressions to make ev
erything sound so interesting.
She read loud enough for every
one- to hear, but she did not
shout. She read slowly enough
for everyone to understand, but
she did not drag the words. Sis
ter said that everyone in her
class could read well, but even
Miss Mumbles and Master Jets
agreed that Sister could read
the best of all! After that they
all tried to read their books ex
actly like she did.
And do you know, that one
day Sister Superior came to
visit Iheir room and listen to
them read, and she told them
that they were the very best
readers in the whole school!
Question
Box
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they had heard of similar cases.
The custom seems to have some
thing to do with a superstition.
There is no such custom though,
is there?
A. There is of course no rul
ing or approved practice design
ed to discourage mothers from
attending the baptisms of their
infants. On the contrary, the
Church encourages such attend
ance whenever possible. For a
mother to stay away from the
ceremony merely because of a
superstition would be wrong.
Q. When did Christmas carol
ing originate in the United
States?
A. According to Father Fran
cis Weiser’s recently published
“Handbook of Christian Feasts
and Customs,” the first histori
cal mention of caroling in
America was recorded by Fa
ther Bartholomew Vimont, S.J.,
in an official report on the con
dition of the Huron Indian Mis
sion. The report is dated October
1, 1645, and is found in the fam
ed Jesuit Relations and Allied
Documents.
Jottings
(Continued From Paqe 4)
and how only His possession can
fully satisfy and fulfil the hu
man heart. How glad you should
be that the eyes of your soul
see past the tinsel and tawdri
ness of things too earthly and
ephemeral. Hold on to that gift
and thank God for it.” Please
God, I will and you will, all
the days of 1959 is the message
of my first column of the year.
Trying to correct the faults of
one’s acquaintances is no way to
retain friendships.
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