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r» r, ■i rv/?rv ■n apt O Two bishops of African dioceses met recently in the offices of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome. They are the first negro Prince of the Church* -Tis Eminence Laurian Cardinal Rugambwa, Bishop of Ru~ :abo, Tanganyika and Most Rev. Denis Eugene Hurley, Archbishop of Durban, Union of South Africa, a na tive of Capetown. (NC Photos) ¥/, hTbAILEY PLUMBING & HEATING Telephone LI. 6-8133 — 1500 W. Hancock Avenue ATHENS, GEORGIA 0.1. Trussell Mr Co. Your Ford Deafer SInee 1918 ATHENS, GEORGIA STOP AT THE GEORGIAN ATHENS, GEORGIA 100% AIR CONDITIONED • CHILDREN FREE • FREE PARKING © FREE RADIO, TELEVISION Alwyn B. Stiles, Manager ZIPPY'S DRIVE INN ATHENS, GA. PERSIAN RUG COMPANY SALES SERVICE LEWIS BLDG. Repaired — Sized — Stored — Demothed FREE EST. RUGS, PADDING, WALL-TO-WALL CARPETS AND INSTALLATION 1245 S. Milledge Avenue, ai Five Points Phone LI. 6-1441 Athens, Ga. Thornton Brothers Paper Company WHOLESALE Paper Products :: Specialties PHONE LI. 3-5204 P. O. BOX 111 Corner Foundry and Broad Streets ATHENS. 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 All graces, with the hope that every reader and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. TESTAMENT AND OTHER POEMS, by John Fandel, Sheed & Ward, 95c. (Reviewed by Cecilia L. Hines) It is rather a presumptious effort for this reviewer who has such a limited knowledge of the norms and techniques of modern poetry to review a book of this kind, but so much com petent and interesting verse is being written today it would be derelict to neglect any oppor tunity to call attention to this awakening in America on the part of young writers. A large percentage of this promising talent is among young Catholic authors many of whom have been awarded prizes and scholar ships! such as the Lamont prize, the Elinor Frost Poetry Scholarship, and the Reynolds Lyric Award of the Poetry So ciety of America) by national foundations. To get any reaction to the beauty and value of poetic liter ature all verse should be read aloud. Only when words can be heard, tasted and felt can their nuances come alive to either dance or drag across the page they are printed on. Cadence and rhythm create interest, im portance and influence in all human beings. Little children feel this keenly—they love the sound of words even if the meaning is obsecure. “In the be ginning was the rhythm,” said a wise old German sage. An increasing number of poems, some good and some not so good, is being published in secular and religious journals— many in magazines not devoted to poetry alone. Hoping to at tract more interest in this trend Sheed & Ward, early last year, put out a slim volume of poems by John Fandel whose work has appeared consistently in over forty American magazines and anthologies since 1943 and who is now teaching English in Manhatten. This little paper back called Testament and Oth er Poems has a delightful lyric quality ’ which reminds me of the lovely haunting beauty of Maggie Teyte’s singing voice. The poems are printed in two sections: (1) consisting of short poems on everyday subjects which carry a modern report- orial tone and (2) under the caption Testament, more philo sophical in content. The form, feeling and thought in both sec tions are sound and enriched here and there with symbol and imagery. One of the most de lightful poems describes Nuns on a Windy Morning as: “Black dimensions of wind The peek-a-boo nuns Scurry like birds . . . . . . silhouettes Of silence who wear Rosaries, quick refrains Like castanets.” Other Catholic poets who have had hooks of verse published in the last year of two are Daniel Berrigan, S. J., Phyllis McGinley, Sister Therese, S.D.T., and Ned O’Gorman who won the Lamont award in 1958. PAPERBACK BOOKS A GIRL AND HER TEENS, by Peter-T h o m a s Rohrbach, O.C.D., Bruce, $1.25. (Reviewed by Elaine Hoffman) Of the many books published concerning teen-age girls, Fa ther Rohrbach’s answers com pletely the numerous questions of a high school girl. Dating, going steady and marriage — three sensitive topics among all teen-age girls — are discussed frankly and clearly, leaving no doubt in the reader’s mind as to the correct procedures. Certain ly this is an inspiring book for the groping mind of the teen age girl. THE COMPLETE PRAYERS OF HIS HOLINESS PIUS XII, translated from the original texts by Alastair Guinan, Des- clee, $1.50. Almost one hundred prayers composed by the late Holy Father f o r various oc casions and various classes of people, from 1931 when he was Cardinal Pacelli until his death in 1958. All are beautiful and eloquent, of course. Particularly noticable is the tone of anguish in those composed during the war years. Beautiful and elo quent also are the two full-page photographs of His Holiness!, one in color, the other in black- and-white; as well as the fac simile of his own handwritten (in Italian) prayer to the Holy Family, with corrections and deletions as he made them. THE BIBLE IN THE CHURCH, by Bruce Vawter, C.M., Sheed & Ward, 75c. The story of what the Bible’ has meant within the framework of the teaching Church throughout the centuries, presented in pop ular form by one of America’s most competent biblical scho lars. The subject is treated with precision, clearness and good humor. THE PATTERN OF SCRIP TURE, by Vincent Rochford, Cecily Hastings and Alexander Jones, Sheed & Ward, 75c. Each of the three authors contributes an essay. The first, “God’s Rec ord of God’s Work,” explains attitudes which should be cul tivated for reading the Bible. The second, “The Plan of God,” traces the history of that plan as begun in the Old Testament and completed in the New Tes tament. The third, “The Tool of God,” is an unusual study of Mary as found in the Scrip tures, “the Lady whom every careful reader of the Scriptures may come to know.” GOD'S FRONTIER, by J. L. M. Descalzo, S.J., Knopf $3.97. (Reviewed by Flannery O’Connor) The most interesting part of God's Frontier is the short in troduction by its Jesuit author in which he reminds us that edifying literature is made with heavy “blocks of stone and painful blows of the pick.” A translator’s note informs the reader that in Spanish the word edification has not lost the meaning of “act of building, of raising an edifice.” The author reminds us that edifying litera ture can only be the work of mature beings and asks if he shall be blamed if some of the BE1KSTEIN FUNERAL HOME AMBULANCE SERVICE ESTABLISHED 1911 TELEPHONE LI. 6-7373 DORSEY PRODUCE ATHENS, GEORGIA McLERoY COMPANY Wholesale Fruits & Produce 450 Georgia Depot 1 Street Athens, Georgia pages of his work bleed or siz zle. Unfortunately, none of them do bleed or sizzle. There is an excellent mind behind this book but it is not the mind of a nov elist. The story is of a young man who finds that he works miracles without wanting to — embarrassing miracles, such as bringing a canary back to life when the miracle the communi ty wants is rain to alleviate a persistent drought. This makes good allegory but genuine edifi cation in the sense defined is lacking because there are not enough blows of the axe, very little even of the spade work required to make fiction. The characters remain too easily good or bad. too puppet-like to sustain belief in them for long. Allegory is all that remains and edification in the less interest ing, diluted and abstract sense. This novel won the Eugenio Nadal Prize in Spain, which in dicates that it must have had something in Spanish that it lacks in English — perhaps a poetic quality — or that there was no better novel to choose from, or that critical literary values were not uppermost in the minds of the judges. THE MODERNITY OF ST. AUGUSTINE, by Jean Guitton, Helicon, $2.50. (Reviewed by Flannery O'Connor) This is a brief but illuminat ing. essay on the relevance of St. Augustine to the modern age, particularly as regards his con ception of existence in time. Before Augustine the sense of personal sin and its connection with time had had no literary expression. For the Greek, sin was error; for the Stoic acci dent. The Jews had experienced sin and its relation to history collectively but St. Augustine is the first man of the West to have attained in personal fash ion this Jewish experience and to have written it for the ages. M. Guitton traces aspects of Augustinian thought in Freud, Sartre, Proust, Gide and Hegel, indicating the further step into profundity that the saint took which these modern thinkers stop short of. This essay was delivered in Paris on the 16th centenary of St. Augustine’s birth and in Geneva, before the Faculty of Protestant theology. It is full of profound suggestions which deserve extension into a longer book. THE DIVIDED LADY, by Bruce Marshall, Houghton Mif flin, $3.50. (Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester) This is a novel about the potency of kindliness. Following the theme, it is a lauding of the Italians set against a criticism of the English; Mr. Marshall implies that the Italians are kind because they are Catholics and the English are relatively insen sitive and cruel because they are Protestants. To keep this theme from being too pat, the author loads his Italians with sins— emphasis being on those of the flesh—but these, it is shown, may be readily outflown by the true capacity for warm affection with which the Catholic faith endows its adherents. This is a dangerously simplified theory of an exceedingly complex ques tion, a fact that Mr. Marshall perhaps obliquely acknowledges by never flatly stating his theory as such. Mr. Marshall is witty and sometimes charming. However, in The Divided Lady he has employed techniques which only questionably serve their purpose. Commendably, he la bors no point, but he effects, his witticisms with a super-abund ance of British slang and French and Italian phrases that, for all their becoming brevity, are so much meaningless tedium to the unilingual American reader. He also employs an un fortunate device in the first half of the book, where he jumps hectically back and forth over a fifteen year span; ultimately it is seen that this is done to illustrate the unpleasant English —and also a sort of Scotch saint —who are brought back on the scene at the end of the book. The device works, hut it costs more of the reader’s patience than the product it turns out is worth. NORMS FOR THE NOVEL, by Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Hanover House, $2.95. “The creative reader,” says Father Gardiner,, “will ap proach the novel that has any thing serious to offer . . . with a certain sort of reverence, with a willingness to have his thoughts challenged in a proper way. He will come away from such a novel with some small (at least) realization that he has faced, for the time of his read ing experience, the mystery that is human nature. If he has THE BULLETIN, May 14, 1960—PAGE 7 faced that, then he has grown in intellectual, and very likely in moral, stature . . As literary editor of America, Father Gardiner has for many years been evaluating the con temporary novel and developing his statement of principles by which “the creative reader,” that discerning reader who wishes to get more than enter tainment from this particular art form, can form his own judgements of the novels offered for his consumption. His book, first published in 1953, is con sidered a definitive Catholic study of the bearing of morality on the novelist’s art. The new and revised edition includes examination of books published since 1953 and the expansion of certain sections of the original edition. The author outlines five prin ciples for moral evaluation of literature; discusses the rela tionship between “realism” and moral evaluation: studies the function of literature and its challenge to the creative reader. In the recent past, he says in his foreword, too much criticism assumed that the novel r primarily a sociological tract: but present trends in fiction take the novelist “behind the social facade of human be haviour (where) he is inelucta bly plunged into the ultimate ’whys’ of human action; once he strives to give an honest and convincing answer to these, he is treading on moral grounds. Once he treads there, he is in volved in a religious ‘engage ment’ . . .” Father Gardiner concludes then, that literature “has of its nature a moral and religious bent which manifests itself in that particular inspiration . . . (which) consists in stirring the reader’s emotion and imagina tion to a realization that there is some heroism in the weakest of men as well as some weak ness in the most heroic of men . . . (and that) God sees men to love them . . . because He sees His own infinite perfections mirrored in every one of them.” [ GOING TO THE PICKRICK?! I KINSEY MOVING & STORAGE AGENTS FOR DEAN VAN LINES WORLD WIDE SERVICE COMPARE OUR RATES 029 Glenn St., S.W. PL. 3-97X1 Atlanta, Ga. DISTINCTIVE! Silverware - Unique - Costume Jewelry Custom Designed Rings Fine Watches - Fine Diamonds FRANKLIN BEASLEY JEWELER Corner Candler & Glenwood I)R. 8-8722 Decatur. Ga. SWAP AND TRADE Book Lovers - Record Collectors - Bargain Hunters Exchange your books & magazines for those of the same class and condition for only 5c & 10c Cantrell's Oddity Shop 245 Peters St., S.W. MU. 8-0545 Atlanta, Ga. THE FARMERS HARDWARE OF ATHENS, Inc. WHOLESALE General Hardware, Paints, Etc. 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