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BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3037 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. APPROACHES TO CHRIS TIAN UNITY, by C. J. Dumont, O.P., translated by Henry St. John, O.P., Helicon, $4.50. (Reviewed by William A. Sessions) The approaching Ecumenical Council has set the theme of unity — with its varying dimen sions — squarely before the modern Catholic world. What does the term mean? Father Du mont answers some of the possi ble questions that could be ask ed. Like all modern Europeans, Father Dumont seeks a return to a unity of culture that cannot \ allow the barbarities of the last decade. In this spirit, he pro ceeds to outline possible means by which individual Catholics may contribute to Christian unity. Father Dumont’s first steps are very concrete. Christian unity already exists — in the liturgical cycle of the year. This cycle, Father Dumont demon strates, is implicit therfore in the life of every Christian. Unity then is not some abstraction but a means of sanctification. This thesis, similar to Father Tavard’s in this country allows every Christian, no matter his posi- j tion, an immediate place in the development of unity. His later chapters also develop this theme of the place every Catholic in the search for Chris tian unity. JPrayer, work for unity, better comprehension of the actual teachings of the Church on unity, and finally an intimate understanding of the relationship between the theo logical virtues — faith, hope, and charity — and unity! These elements comprise Father Du mont’s thesis that the search for unity starts now, wherever the individual Christian desires that unity. THE PARADISE TREE, by V Gerald Vann, Slieed & Ward, ' $4.00. (Reviewed by William A. Sessions) The famous Dominican is ob viously attempting an experi ment that is admittedly incom plete. Nevertheless, it is a fas cinating experience just to fol low the line of Father Vann’s correlation between Jungian in sights and the three centers for the Christian living out the pat tern of his existence; the ten commandments and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the seven sacraments. Father Vann’s main thesis is, as one might expect, that mod ern Christians have lost the rhythmic pattern — the dance, to use his terminology — of these three centers. Legality has taken over the vital response. Sometimes in proving his thesis, Father Vann is revolutionary. Sundays,- he maintains, are not necessarily days of rest, The emphasis, he says, is keeping the Sabbath holy, not neces sarily avoiding work. He attrib utes our current interpretation to historical derivation. The book illustrates once more Father Vann’s great grasp of the problems of the modern world and his recognition that something approximating a rev- • olution is required before the true pattern of Christian living can be recovered. 4 % Insured to 110,000 by F8LIC We Pay Postage On Mail Accounts Current Rate on Savings Standard Federal Savings & Loan Assn. 48 Broad St. NW, Atlanta 3 Ga. MU. 8-6619 Business or Pleasure Travel Arrangements Air - Ship - Bus - Rail Cruises - Tours - Hotels World-Wide Travel Service GEORGIA MOTOR CLUB, Inc. Affiliated with the American Automobile Assn. 1044 W. Peachtree St., N.W. Atlanta 9, Georgia • TR. 5-7171 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ARTIST, by Jacques Mari- tain, Scribner’s, $2.95. (Reviewed by Elizabeth Hester) “What is the moral respon sibility of the artist with respect to others and to himself?” The above question, lifted both from the jacket and the author’s foreword, is what Maritain at tempts to answer in the four chapters of this small book. The first chapter clarifies the distinction between art and morality. Maritain, following a Thomistic thesis, defines art as performed “for the good of the work” and morals as existing “for the good of the man.” In directly the two may act upon each other, but as functions they are absolutely distinct. The second chapter, entitled “Art for Art’s Sake,” refutes that in any pure sense there can be such a thing. The material of one’s life and attitude must go into any object one creates, and thus a work will by neces sity reflect the morality of the artist. This is particularly true for the novelist, a type of artist given more attention than any other in this book. Maritain bor rows a phrase from Mauriac to cover the artist’s obligation: he should “purify the source,” i. e„ himself. The third chapter, “Art for the People,” swings the balance in the opposite direction, declar ing that if the artist has a moral obligation to. the people, the people in turn have a consider able obligation to the artist. The author protests the State as a censor and asks for the artist the respect and generosity of society. Maritain believes that art, like prayer, is for the good of the soul and must be allowed to form naturally at its source without the distortions of super ficially experienced external pressures such as nationalistic and religious fevers. To resist such pressures is part of the artist’s responsibility, a kind of action strikingly dramatized by the late Boris Pasternak. In his fourth and last chapter the author tackles one of the knottiest problems in the novel ist’s life. If he has not lived boldly and with wide contacts, how can he know life to write about? And if he has lived so, how can he escape having been touched by evil? Maritain argues that to look upon evil is not automatically to be evil. And in this, though Maritain be right, the artist usually fights uphill. The fact is, people rarely read closely enough to learn whether an author is for or against what he writes about; they assume, simply, that the arthur is what he writes about. And the problem, like the ever lasting question of censorship itself, remains hung in a deli cate balance. Mauriac has a gentle even style suggesting kindliness and warmth. He is not an exciting writer, but he is a pleasant and rewarding one. JEWELL'S BEAUTY SALON Highway 54, Forest Park (next to Bob’s Barbecue). Phone PO 6-6968. Hours: 8:00 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. Mon.-Sat. Specializing in permanents and tinting. Mrs. Jewell Slancil, Owner FATHER MADDEN’S LIFE OF CHRIST, by Richard R. Madden, O.C.D., Bruce, $2.95. Father Madden is happily re membered as author of the de lightful Men in Sandals, a popu lar, humor-filled account of the life of a Carmelite monk. He is now vicar at the Carmelite Monastery in Youngstown, Ohio, where he gives retreats to teen agers, for whom his Life of Christ has been written. The author’s special appeal is his ability to speak to youth on their own level. He makes the personality of Christ shine bril liantly so that, knowing the real Christ, young Christians will want to follow Him. It is Father Madden’s idea that everyone, sometime in his life, hears Christ’s call, “Come, follow Me.” It is his concern •that every young man and wom an, hearing the call, may answer it promptly and generously, even heroically if necessary. Therefore he presents Christ as the Hero whom they may elect to follow rather than another less worthy. “His wanderings,” he says, “no longer take Him along the edge of the sea, but into the schools and the drugstores. His call is the same. Follow Me! So we follow Him . . . and if He does not choose to send us out into the world to do great things for Him, then, little by little, the world will come to us, be cause the world will see in us something of Him . . .” THE SON OF MAN, by Fran cois Mauriac, World, $3.00. (Reviewed by Flannery O’Connor) M. Mauriac’s meditation on Christ reveals, as might be ex pected of any man’s meditation on the Lord, a good deal more about himself than about Christ. One comes away from this book impressed afresh with Mauriac’s sense of Christ’s presence in the contemporary world, but re membering perhaps longer cer tain pictures of Mauriac as a child, his feet sweating in his cold shoes as he waits on a freezing morning to go to school. This is a novelist’s medi tation; Mauriac is always able to impress the reader with a strong sense of the flesh — all men’s flesh that Christ takes on — and of the anguish of the human situation. In this book he provides a specific answer for the Jansenism of which he has often been accused. He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic’s “cramp of sal vation,” — obsession with per sonal salvation — an anguish transmuted into charity, ang uish for another. Thus for Sar tre, “hell is other people,” but for the Christian with Mauriac’s anguish others are Christ. We realize that this way of looking at life was so completely left out of Mauriac’s youthful Cath olic education that it has had to come to him as a discovery of later life. This is a valuable book, one which will provide the reader with unforeseen in sights into the Incarnation. W. O. BRYSON WATCH REPAIR 217 No. 1 Peachtree Bldg. MU. 8-7135 — Atlanta, Ga. TWO COMPLETE PLANTS 1107 Peachtree St., N. E. — TRinity 6-7391 3189 Maple Drive. N. E„ Buckhead — CEdar 3-5311 5 Convenient Pick-up Branches to Serve You Better: 896 Peachtree St., N. E. — TRinity 5-2876 914 Piedmont Ave., N. 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Becoming fascinated with this early Christian writer who could devastate his literary opponents in the best Ciceron ian style, the retired professor decided to go to Europe and pursue Jerome down the streets of Venice, Rome, Constantinople, in the sun-bleached desert of Chalsis and finally to the bleak cell a few steps from the birth place of Christ. Dr. Mierow preferred not to lean too heavily on the works of others. He explains: “Jerome once said: It is not by the bril liance of great men, but by my own strength that I must be judged. Other writers had ex plored the regular sources and wrote biographies. I wanted to let him speak for himself.” He preferred to write about the Jerome who caught his fan cy through the sweep and spirit of the translated letters which he quotes at length. “Here was no day-as-dust scholar . . .” he exclaims. “Jerome was always intensely alive, easily swayed by his feelings. His affections, human traits and failings make Jerome more appealing . . .” Had they been contemporaries, St. Jerome and Dr. Mierow might have found much in com mon. The saint, long before his conversion, had read all the Green and Roman classics and his letters are shot through with references to them. Jerome’s enormous correspondence was one of the paradoxes of his life; how incongruous to hide him self away in the desert while his voice wandered all over the world. It also provides the great est insight into his character, Dr. Mierow says. “As h|e could love deeply, so too he could hate with all the power of his being ... he hated error. If a friend strayed from the path of ortho doxy, Jerome . . . went to lengths of vilification not exceeded by the greatest of the Roman satir ists, and he had read them all.” Jerome once dreamed that Christ would accuse him of be ing more of a Ciceronian than a Christain. Dr. Mierow is both. His teaching career has given him a thorough knowledge of the Roman world and his af finity for the language in which Jerome wrote and lived. The book is illustrated with photo graphs taken by the author. Continued Emigration Cause 0f Anxiety, Irish Bishops Declare In Joint Pastoral THE BULLETIN, September 3, I960—PAGi DUBLIN, (NC) — The Irish Bishops have stated that con tinuing large-scale emigration from Ireland is their “most ob vious cause of anxiety” and a source of many social and eco nomic evils. The Bishops spoke in a joint pastoral letter issued in connec tion with the promulgation of the decrees of their 1956 nation al synod. The decrees of the synod, which have been approv ed by the Holy See, are now being communicated to the cler gy. They will be into effect November 15. The Bishops said in their pas toral: “So long as emigration con tinues we are bound to use every means to safeguard the religious life of those who leave our country and to secure that they shall not merely preserve the Faith in themselves but shall become, by God’s grace, the means of communicating it to others. “Special measures have been taken to this end in recent years and the prayers and active as sistance of all the faithful are asked in this most important field, of the lay apostolate.” The Bishops said that through the 'development of modern means of communication Irish men at home as well as abroad are today in more direct and frequent contact with influences hostile to the Faith than they have been in former times. They added that “our defense must largely be found in a sound Christian education. Important progress has been made in the essential matter of religious in struction of the young.” The Bishops’ pastoral, similar to the one they issued at the time of the national synod in 1956, also declared that the traditional aspects of Catholic ism in Ireland “are as manifest now as they have ever been.” General Microfilming Service Microfilming Service Supplies Sc Equipment Electrostatic Prints of Valuable Records GEORGE E. KINNEY, Owner 333 Vi Peachtree, N, E. DR. 8-0571 Atlanta, Ga. RALPH CLEANERS PO. 1-5334 1006 Main Street Forest Park, Georgia PHONE JA. 2-6500 589 FORREST RD„ N. E. ATLANTA 12. GA. ESTABLISHED 1890 Complete Banking and Trust Facilities The Liberty National Bank & Trust Co. SAVANNAH, GEORGIA MEMBER FEDERAL DEPDfJIT INSURANCE CORPORATION dale's CELLAR RESTAURANT PEACHTREE AND IVY STREETS CHARCOAL BROILED STEAK CHICKEN — SEAFOOD Hours: 11 a. m.-ll p. m„ Luncheon through Dinner VISIT BEAUTIFUL DALE'S COFFEE HOUSE Lobby Imperial Hotel 6 a. m.-lO p. m. PAINTS. 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