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Mrs. Eileen Hail Resigns
Leo 1 Zuber Edits
look Review Section
Effective with the current
issue of THE BULLETIN, the
book review section will be
under the general editorship of
Leo J. Zuber.
Mr. Zuber succeeds Mrs.
Eileen Hall who has edited
this section for the past 15
years. Mrs. Hall recently ac
cepted a position in the
Georgia State College lib
rary and due to the press of
these new duties, found if
necessary to resign as editor
of this section. The editors
will miss Mrs. Hall and
deeply appreciate the out
standing column she has ed
ited for THE BULLETIN.
Mr. Zuber and his family are
members of St. Thomas More
Parish, Decatur. He is Assist
ant Regional Director for Spe
cial Programs with the Atlan
ta Regional Office of the Hous
ing and Home Finance Agen
cy, a Federal agency with pro
gram interests in the housing
and urban renewal fields. Mr.
Zuber’s responsibilities with
the agency include activities
over the 8-state Southeast re
lated. to the Urban Planning
Assistance Program and the
Community Renewal Program
authorized by Congressional
enactment of 1954 and 1959
respectively.
Mr. Zuber is a graduate of
Holy Childhood School, Har
bor Springs, Michigan, of
Wayne University, Detroit, and
the University of Michigan. He
has also attended Clark Uni
versity, Worcester, Mass., the
University of Tennessee, and
the University of Buffalo. Dur
ing World War II he served
in the U. S. Navy.
He has served on the staffs
of the Tennessee Valley Au
thority, the Tennessee State
Planning Commission, the At-
LEO J. ZUBER
ianta Metropolitan Planning
Commission, in state, regional
and metropolitan planning
functions. He. has also served
on the faculties of Marist Col
lege, Georgia State - College for
Business Administration, and
the Georgia Institute of Tech
nology. He has been president
of the Georgia Section as well
as, of the Southeast Chapter of
the American Institute of Plan
ners; in 1957 he founded and
for two years he edited THE
SOU’EASTER, the official
publication of the Southeast
Chapter. In 1953 he was Con
gress Director of the Southern
Regional Congress on City
Planning. .
By appointment of the Bish
op of Nashville, he participat
ed in the organization of the
Catholic Committee, of the
South. He has contributed re
views to THE BULLETIN
since 1949.
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For the greater glory of God
and for the spiritual benefits
of authors, publishers, review
ers and readers.
THE SCIENCE OF THE
CROSS, by Edith Stein, Reg-
nery, $4.75.
(Reviewed by
Flannery O'Connor)
This book is, a presentation
of the life and doctrine of St.
John of the Cross by Edith
Stein, a Jewish Carmelite nun
who met her death in the gas
chambers at Auschwitz. It is
her last work and knowing the
outcome of her life, one feels
in it the modern fulfillment of
St. John’s doctrine by herself.
As for St. John of the Cross,
his life was lived so very near
eternal realities that it seems
an impossible life to under
stand. One must simply accept
it on faith with no recourse to
psychology. Edith Stein was at
one time the disciple of the
phenomenologist, Edmund
Husserl. Her intellectual train
ing was not in theology but in
philosophy of the phenomen
ologist school. Both the trans
lator and the editor of this
book point out that this back
ground makes a difference in
Edith Stein’s approach to St.
John, but the reader who
looks for the difference will
perhaps find it in very few
instances. The book seems
largely made up of quotations
from St. John which Edith
Stein adds very little to. It is
a moving book but less for
what is in it than for Edith
Stein’s own background — for
the modern crucifixion that
the reader knows was waiting
for her as she wrote the book.
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Jacques Leclercq, Kenedy,
$3.95.
(Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber)
If the title of this volume
sounds or seems to be a bit
indefinite, the subtitle, Chris
tian Morality and Modern
Life, may hone it up a bit. It
is a translation from the
French, Le Reiour a Jesus, of
a scholarly volume by a
scholarly, but eminently prac
tical, writer, a professor at the
University of Louvain. This is
not less than the fourth trans
lation into English of a much
larger series of his works.
The volume is to be nibbled
at slowly, thoughtfully, and
should be masticated at equi
valent pace. Digestion is an
other matter. The author has
much substance to offer and
no one is likely to get it all
the first time around.
His cnapters are as retreat
discourses — but not for the
casually inclined retreatant.
They cover such topics as
Christianity as a religion, the
question of God, the Christian
view of the world and of man,
that trinity of virtues, Faith,
Hope, and Charity, and con
cludes with some comments on
contemplation.
Any real layman aspires to
an increase in knowledge of
these topics; possibly a quote
from the Leclercq volume will
impel laymen to this reading:
“Since nearly all works of
spirituality are written for re
ligious, it follows that they
treat of virtues proper to the
religious life and leave aside
those proper to life in the
world.”
This book Is written around
the cornerstone of “life in the
world” where saints are un
doubtedly far more numerous
than one might at first suspect.
The Leclercq volume is a
strong arm offered in aid to a
still further increase in that
number.
THE IRISH STORY, a sur
vey of Irish history and cul
ture, by Alice Curtayne, Kene
dy, $3.95.
(Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber)
There’s a timely as well as
a durable quality about The
Iriss Siory, Where in this
country is there not a warm
feeing about Ireland and the
Irisi? Could there possibly be
moie humor, more stories and
iofcs, than there are about the
Irisi? But our Irish lore and
background are too often of
the John McCormack—Mother
Madiree and annual St. Pat
ricks Day parade variety, a
bit of sentimental nostalgia
wittout too much basis in
harl knowledge. .
Ir The Irish Story, Alice
Curayne gives us some real
sampling of the substance of
Iris! history. An appalling
recognition forces itself on us:
how very precious little of this
story did we ever hear or read
or know before. What a mar
vel that we generally think
so yell of Ireland having
known her so inadequately.
There in lies the timely as
well as the durable quality
of the volume.
Compressing the story of a
people from 3,500 B. C. to the
20th century A. D. was the
author’s task. This is not
scholarly history; nor is it
light reading. Anyone who
makes serious claims of Irish
ancestory or other pro-Irish
leanings owes himself this
book.
There is a series of excellent
pictures, a restrained bibliog
raphy, and an index; pity it is
that such a volume goes out
in public without a map!
Speaking of the fighting Irish,
the outstanding picture is of
the Cuchulain statue in Dub
lin’s General Post Office. And,
credit where it is due, it is
interesting to learn that Cath
olics under persecution in Ire
land had some company in the
Presbyterians.
BEAT ON A DAMASK
DRUM, by T. K. Martin, Dut
ton, $3.75.
(Reviewed by
Flannery O'Connor)
This is a very well-written
war novel with religious un
dertones. It traces the penetra
tion into reality of a film ac
tress who insinuates herself
into the hide-out of five sol
diers of fortune in French
Indo China. Her intention is to
retrieve one of them, a child
hood companion, and bring
him back to London to live
her kind of life, a kind of life
which he and all those who
have experienced the horror
of modern war and the pre
cariousness of modern life
have out-grown. In the process
of trying to get him back, she
learns the lesson of Christ’s
final abandonment on the
cross. Occasionally meaning in
this book is lost in shadows'
and credibility strained, but
in general it is a novel well
worth reading once and possi
bly twice.
MATHEW CAREY. PAM
PHLETEER FOR FREEDOM,
by Jane F. Hindman, Kenedy,
$2.50.
PADRE KINO, AND THE
TRAIL TO THE PACIFIC,
by Jack Steffan, Kenedy $2.50.
(Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber)
P. J. Kenedy and Sons pub
lishes what is growing to be
an impressive series of books
for young folks, 10 to 15 years
of age, Catholic and otherwise.
Generally entitled American
Background Books, individual
ly they deal with Catholic men
and women who have played
significant historic roles in the
development of the North
American continent. The pres
ent volumes are respectively
the 13th and 14th in the series.
The author of the Carey
volume is a Philadelphian,
currently Assistant Librarian
at Holy Family College. Her
subject, Mathew Carey, Dub
lin born and reared, as a boy
apprentice to a hard-drinking
man of the trade, learned the
rudiments of printing and pub
lishing. Living in Ireland un
der conditions imposed by the
Penal Laws aroused fire and
rebellion which promptly got
him jailed. Later, he went to
France where he learned more
of his now chosen trade and
where he became personally
acquainted with Franklin and
Lafayette. Later still (1784) he
migrated to Philadelphia
where he lived the remainder
of his life. His life span in
America, 1784-1839, put him
here in a key city in a critical
time, particularly with his
temperament and his Ireland
experience under the Penal
Laws. These were trying years
between the Declaration of
Independence (1776) and the
adoption of the U. S. Constitu
tion (1787). As printer, pub
lisher, pamphleteer, and friend
of the great of his day, Carey
exercised great influence even
among the infliiential. He
numbered Washington, Henry
Clay, Father John Carroll
(Georgetown University’s
founder), Hamilton and Jef
ferson among his acquaint
ances. Not the least of his
claims to fame is his having
published the first Bible in
this country.
The Padre Kino volume
might be labelled a walking
book; it was that good mis
sionary’s apostolate to care for
territory scattered over an
area now comprising Western
Mexico and Southwestern
United States. The land was
unsettled, resources largely
undeveloped and largely un
recognized. Kino, born in the
Tyrol and educated as a Jesuit
in Spain, was, in addition to
being a priest, a cartographer
and a mathematician. His ex
plorations proved that Califor
nia was not an island and that
Lower California was a penin
sula. He introduced agriculture
with cattle, horses and sheep
into his territory; he taught
the value of good seed and of
husbandry. More than that, he
brought the Catholic faith and
thereby implanted a spiritual
tradition strong to this day.
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