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J £. ! 1 (BOOKS (MAKE (( A (HOME 1 p^ lUriter* l*\eadt EDITED BY LEO J. 2332 North Decatur RcL A. M. D. G. For the greater glory of God and for the spiritual benefit of authors, publishers, reriewers and readers. THE POETRY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, edited by Lee Steinmetz, Michigan State University Press, 1960, 264 pp., $5.75. Reviewed by Sister M. Har riet. O.P. In The Poetry Of The Ameri can Civil War, Lee Steinmetz serves the reader a wide sampl ing of the writings of “for gotten or nearly forgotten poets.” His choices pinpoint perceptions of the American nineteenth century social up heaval as it touched the various regions of the United States. In the editing of these sentimental, romantic, and naive selections, Steinmetz has produced more than a centenary volume. The chapter and divisional commen taries skillfully knit together the bards’ audio and visual sense perceptions of the war. For the reader these descrip tive sections carry a bifocal effect. He envisions the inci dents as perceived a hundred years ago, with a minimal emo tion reaction. This, the editor achieves through delightful evaluations in the current vein. The Poetry Of The American Civil War lends itself to the reading of random chapters. For everyone the selections grouped under “The Holy War” and “Slavery” promise insights and satisfactions. They reveal responses of our forefathers to the crisis we do well to recall. The indications of simi lar reactions in Northern and Southern bards hold pertinence today. Theirs was behavior without sophistication. But three generations removed from us, the social commen tators will note! Striking this note, the reader will have hit upon the significance of what Lee Steinmetz has done for him. For it is as an easily read and often amusing social com mentary that the volume stands to claim enduring values. erd ZUBER Decatur. Georgia THE ADOLESCENT BOY by W. Connell, S.J. and J. Me Gannon, S.J., Fides, 1961, 159 pp., 954. Reviewed by Loras Walsh. How are you faring as the teacher or parent of adoles cent boys? Read this collec tion of short essays and feel yourself take heart. The au thor, a Jesuit priest and tea cher, spent his life dealing with teenage boys. He devoted great effort to understanding them and interpreting them to their sometimes bewildered pa rents. The following are just a few of the thoughts Father Connell presents in these warm, friend ly essays. A growing boy needs a con sistently cheerful person on his horizon. He himself is in the midst of an eddying pool of STUDY GRANT - Sister Jo anna of the Cross, GNSH re ceived a study grant for the NDEA Summer Language In stitute at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind. Sister Jo anna of the Cross teaches French at D’Youville Acade my, Atlanta. She has previous ly pursued graduate studies at Laval University and at the Universities of Strasbourg and Aix-Marseille under study grants administered by the State Department under the terms of the Fullbright Act. A reviewer for THE BULLE TIN’S Book Review column, her most recent review of “CONFERENCES FOR SIS TERS” - retreat records fea turing the Rev. Leo Clifford, O. F. M. (St. Anthony Guild Press, $12.50), appeared in the July 7th issue. (Photc Van Buren Colley, P.S.A.) 44 Volumes of Pervading Interest, Authentic Illustrations Galore! STEAMBOATS ON THE MIS SISSIPPI, COWBOYS AND CAT TLE COUNTRY, and GREAT DAYS OF THE CIRCUS, by the editors of American Heri tage, American Heritage Pub lishing Co., 1962, each volume 153 pp., illus., $3.95. BAYOU BEAUTY - Lit by flaming torches, a 19th cen tury steamer glides along the lower Mississippi. One of 132 pictures—52 in color—from STEAMBOATS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. change. If we are to help him, to serve as a steadying source of strength, we must be habit ually cheerful. Gloom is poi sonous to a growing boy. If your adolescent boy could tell you what he needs most of all, he would say: “Encour age me, don’t discourage me!” Everyone who deals in any way with boys must concentrate on developing their good will. We cannot do a thing for them or with them without it. This is a book that a parent or teacher will enjoy reading many times, and always with benefit. Father Connell was a kindly man who truly loved the boys he taught. He has given us a book that will help the reader to understand and love the thorny adolescent boy. WISDOM OF THE POVER- ELLO by Eloi Leclerc, O.F.M., Franciscan Herald Press, 1961, 126 pp., $2.50. Reviewed by E. Matthews. Trials prove the heart of man, and Father Leclerc has probed the depths of the suf ferings of St. Francis to demon strate the Wisdom of the Pover- ello. If to select just one short period of a saint’s earthly life to understand his guiding spirit, then that period should cover the saint’s deepest sufferings, and that period for St. Francis came when he returned from his crusade to the Holy land. His health was broken, and his infected eyes were partially blind. The- tremendous growth of his Order had inspired its leaders to attempt to model it after other great Orders. Opposed to such modification, overzealous followers of its founder had adopted dan gerously extreme and ridicu lous practices. Unable to cope with a situation physically be yond him and oppressed with sadness, St. Francis sought the refuge of a hermitage. There he had added to his sufferings, the pain of seeing one of his earliest followers, Brother Rufino, leave him to follow his own way, his own devil- inspired, proud way. St. Francis came to exper ience the meaning of our Lord’s words, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” He knew the utter agony of feeling abandoned by God his Father. JEFFERSON DAVIS AND HIS CABINET, by Rembert W. Patrick, Louisiana State Uni versity Press, 1961, 401 pp., $6.50. Reviewed by Joseph Power. This is a reissue, after two decades. The author is concern ed with one of the lost phases of the history of the Confede racy. He studies the makeup and operation of the executive branch of the Confederate States of America. The volume is one of many sponsored by Louisiana State University and, among others, the University of Texas. All have to do with the history of the southern tier of our states which, a century ago, formed the Confederacy. There is a general discussion of the Confederate Government; how their president was chosen; some of the governing reasons of Mr. Davis’ choices for his cabinet; the weight and influence of a minister of cabinet rank in the councils of government. There appears a fascinating interplay of practical politics As though having reached the limits of suffering, he could do nothing but abandon himself to be led by God, and then peace began to fill his soul. There remained only the immense reality of God. “God is; that suffices.” His work, his Order, was God’s, and God could do with it what He would. It was his part to suffer. His brother was God’s, too, and in time God showed the brother the error of his ways and led him back to his Father. St. Francis’ soul was filled with joy. To know God and to know how to adore Him is the key to the mystery of joy in suf fering. For all those souls who ask why in times of suffering, St. Francis has an answer learned through experience. And for those who after many years of faithtulness find they have departed from the spirit of their vocation, perhaps Brother Rufino has an answer. This Wisdom of the Pover- ello is deeply moving spiritual work which has been well-re ceived in France. Thanks to the translator, Marie Louise John son, M. D., who shares the author’s desire to spread Franciscan spirituality, the book will, in this reviewer's opinion, be eagerly received in this country. Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber. Ever get bored? For fun and for adventure, what’s your dish? The folks behind possibly the most refreshing breezes in the country's publishing experience in many a day, the American Heritage folks, offer a field of juvenile titles that can add to any junior’s reading pleasure and satisfaction. The volumes have pervading interest, factual substance, and authentic illus trations galore. GREAT DAYS OF THE CIR CUS puts together a now lost world, one that will never be quite the same again without the Big Top, an immense, hot, smelly tent which in itself was quite a mechanical marvel. The circus cast a spell in its heyday when, at best, it competed only with the phonograph in the house, the local movie house, seasonal revival meetings and picnics. People enjoyed the cir cus in anticipation, in reality, and in reverie. The circus vol ume captures as well as paper, ink and able, authentic reporting can that period of baubles, of carnival, a world of considers- ble fact and of substantial fic tion, of performing men, women and beasts. Much of so-called American history as taught in schools is adulterated fare given to undue emphasis of the military and of the diplomatic; the pie has en tirely too much crust! Our coun try’ s strength on either side of 1776 is the strength borne of a population not at war but at work. Not the presumed glamour of the sword, the mus ket, the rifle or the BAR, but the sweat and the toil of the plowshare, the ax, the saddle, the mill. COWBOYS AND CATTLE COUNTRY and STEAMBOATS ON THE MISSISSIPPI are pure, unadulterated period and local history. The one recreates the realities of the times when cowboy, horse and saddle, con tended with plains, rivers, sparce grass, dust and miles on miles on miles of riding, riding, riding - all to get beef on the American dinner table. The industry is a highly or ganized, economically complex one now; the cowboy is ahorse at times and at times in heli copter, cub plane, or aboard a jeep. The industry is not a physical endurance test of man and animal now but once it was and those that survived did so because of endurance and wily skill. The others found their economic, if not their actual, graves along a hard, hard trail. Quite another breed of master builder of America was the early riverboatman. The river steamboat was an American specialty, an invention of home made necessity; we happended to have certain kinds of shallow, COMING THRU THE RYE - A bronze by Frederick Remington, pictured in COWBOYS AND CATTLE COUNTRY. The four exuberant cowboys shown here are probably celebrating the end of a round-up or long drive. Unlike the movie or TV image of today, the real range-rider of the western frontier did not always wear a six-shooter— and when he did he didn’t expect to shoot at another human being. crooked, ornery rivers here that other folks didn’t have to bother with. The huffing, now nostalgic, sidewheeler or sternwheeler was the answer. Like the cowboy, the hardy river boatmen had his fine hour. Navigation, now an electronic- gadgetted science, was then at best speculation and mostly gambling with a pinch of luck. Oweners and captains ran wild risks. Sometimes they paid off; frequently the vessel was the dot at the bottom of an ex clamation point which marked the end of her career when boil ers exploded. The Mississippi was not the only river with steamboats; it just had its share. The cowboy and the steam boat volumes are rich in ade quate period illustrations in color and in black and white. Remington, Russell and Selt zer, artists of the cowcountry West, remain an ever contin uing marvel. There are those who will THE BULLETIN, July 21, 1962—PAGE 7 c & $ BRING ON THE CLOWNS! - Circus posters like this one (over 100 years old) were once plastered on barns, store fronts and fences of frontier towns and cities across America. GREAT DAYS OF THE CIRCUS, latest book from American Heritage Junior Library, tells the story of life under the Big Top—from 18th century America mud shows to present day touring companies. For young readers—and their parents. tolerate no comparison; in a real sense there is no compari son to be made. However I will prate the simple truism that any one of thefe'e books would be far better fare for youth and adult alike than a week or two or three of TV. Come to think of it, the cow boy book devotes a little time and attention to the corn of fered the viewer these days as Westerns; wasn’t it a “de sert” that man was talking about recently? It’s a desert in more ways than one. To the publishers: May your tribe increase! ATHENS Gerdine, Stafford & Tillman 128 College Avenue Athens, Georgia Real Estate General Insurance FARMERS HARDWARE OF ATHENS, INC BROAD AT OCONEE ST. Telephone LI. 3-3681 P. O. Box 472 ATHENS, GEORGIA Moon - Winn Drug Co. Prescription Work Our Specialty 197 CLAYTON STREET ATHENS, GEORGIA and principles of government. An instance of this is the de velopment of the constitution of the Confederacy. These were American statesmen and politi cians. They were, however, ac quainted with the constitutional forms and practices of Britain. A proposition given serious consideration would have cab inet rahk carry with it a seat in the Senate, C S A. Converse ly, the cabinet officer would be subject to questioning in the de bates of the legislative branch. The motion failed, but by no wide margin. Against such a background; the men of the executive branch of the Confederacy stand forth. A reader can form a judgment of Davis, the President, and of Davis and his administra tive team during four tragic years. Embassy Site Blessed DUBLIN (NC) - The site of the new U.S. embassy in Ire land has been blessed by Auxil iary Bishop Patrick Dunne of Dublin. C. A. TRUSSELL MOTOR CO. PHONE LI. 6-1421 ESTABLISHED 1918 PULASKI AT BROAD STREET ATHENS, GEORGIA Bradley Provision Co. 247 E. Broad St. Athens, Ga. Phone LI 3-3431 W. H. BAILEY PLUMBING & HEATING Telephone LI. 6-8133 - 1500 W-. 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