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FOURTEEN
THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
.NOVEMBER .27, 1954.
BOOK REVIEWS
EDITED BY EILEEN HALL
Each issue of Ihis Book Page
is confided to the patronage of
Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces,
with the hope that every read
er and every contributor may
be specially favored by her
and her Divine Son.
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE CALEN
DAR, by Rev. Gabriel Ward Haf-
ford and Rev. George Kolanda,
(Bruce), $1.00.
This calendar begins with the
first Sunday of Advent, as any
good Church calendar ought to do.
Two years ago we asked our
mother to review it for us. “Re
view a calendar?” she exclaimed.
She wrote her comments for us.
And last year, we gave the re
view copy to a goddaughter. Then
Mother asked, ‘Where’s my calen
dar?” So we ordered one for her.
Wondering just what was its
charm, we also ordered one for
ourselves—and we found out,
these last twelve months.
This year we’re keeping the re
view copy for ourselves. Mother
and our goddaughter will probab
ly want one too. After following
it for a year, anyone interested
in the Church’s liturgical cycle
won’t want to be without it. You
turn over a page every week,
rather than just once a month,
and you stop to read the authors’
clever comments on the various
feasts and ferials coming up in the
next seven days. Sometimes you
read them over again whenever
you look up something on the cal
endar. They’re intriguing. You
learn a lot.
You’ll refer to the calendar for
those occasional puzzling ques
tions about Mass and breviary
(yes, some lay people use the
breviary in English as our favorite
prayer book)—“Which Vespers to
day? What commemorations? Why
red vestments this Sunday?” And
you’ll refer to it for the equally
puzzling questions about fast and
abstinence.
The first Sunday of Advent is
on November 28 this year. Send
your dollar quickly to your fa
vorite book store or to the pub
lisher of the calendar, so you
won’t miss a single week, of it.
-—Eileen Hall.
LIGHTS ALONG THE SHORE,
by Fulton Oursler, (Hanover
House), $2.95.
(Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber)
In his writing, voluminous and
varied, Fulton Oursler established
an enviable living memorial that
will keep his name alive and will
make many persons yet unborn
indebted to him. Endowed with
fine talents, uncommon skill, and
a great capacity for work, he was
able to beat out his own ample
path in the literature of this
country, over a long and produc
tive period.
He never saw this book, prob
ably never had its writing serious
ly in mind. Following his death in
1952, his family selected these 41
of his shorter writings and made
the book possible. Except for brief
and unfailingly interesting notes
appended bv his family to several
of the writings, the volume is
strictly Fulton Oursler. The selec
tion represents a cross-section of
his life and its many, varied in
terests. He was a reporter and
served on the staff of Reader’s
Digest. Libertv, Metropolitan and
the MacFadden publications. The
selection is generally inspirational
in nature.
Oursler’s bent, in his later years,
was toward the popularization of
religious subjects. A few selec
tions included here are of this
nature. Among them is “The
Greatest MotheK of All,” written
at “a time of special and deeply
wounding sorrow.” He was fond
of the Lady Chapel in St. Pat
rick’s. Cathedral where he liked
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to go and “not think.” His treat
ment of Christ, the Blessed Moth
er, the Bible and other sacred
topics reveals an intense aware
ness of them and of their mean
ingfulness in his life. At one time
of his life he was a self-styled ag-.
nostic. His intellectual appetite
kept him searching. Ultimately he
became a famous Catholic con
vert.
This is an excellent selection
from the writings of a prolific
author. Anyone interested in a
good story will find more than 40
of them here. But they serve a far
wider purpose than that. They
are in part a reflection of the
vears of a man who loved his fel-
lowman and sought and finally
came to a knowledge of the love
of God.
THE , CHILD AND PROBLEMS
OF TODAY, a symposium spon
sored by the Family Life Bureau,
edited by Edgar J. Schmiedeler,
O. S. B, Ph. D., (Grail), $2.00.
(Reviewed by Wenonah Cham
bers).
As we go from one discussion
in this book to another, we real
ize that the problem of the child
and the family is one that can be
approached from many different
angles — economic, sociological,
moral, religious and psychological.
First of all. we are reminded
that the child needs adequate
physical care. Then, since he is
bv nature a moral and religious
individual, we must provide a
moral and religious frame of ref
erence for the child in the early
stages of his development. Final
ly we must provide for his social
development.
Perhaps there are parents who
really feel they have no “child
problems,” unlikely as that
seems. Most of us are well aware
of such problems. But certainly
there can be no one who would
fail to find in this book at least
one subject that would help him
avoid errors in child training.
Thoughtful parents welcome such
help.
Priests and nuns have contrib
uted their skill in making these
discussions interesting for par
ents. A few of the problems cov
ered are “The Retarded Child,”
“Problems of Teen-Agers,” “Emo
tional Development vs. Emotion
ality” and “Religion and Person
ality Development.”
THE MAN IN CHAINS, by Rosa
lie Marie Levy, (Daughters of St.
Paul), paper, $1.00; cloth, $2.00.
(Reviewed by Mary Lane).
This biography of St. Paul is
divided into four parts. The first
deals with his life and death, cov
ering his conversion, his mission
ary journeys and his martyrdom.
The second part discusses the vir
tues of St. Paul, such as his chari
ty, wisdom, zeal, sanctity, cour
age and his great Christ-like suf
ferings. In the third part, St. Paul
speaks to the children of Israel
exhorting them to love God and
have confidence “through Christ
toward God.”
The last part,: which actually
comprises almost half of the book,
is “A Daily Helpful Thought from
St. Paul.” Some of his most pop
ular teachings, quoted from the
Scriptures, are given as thoughts
for each day of the year, begin
ning with January 1 and going
through December 31.
SCHOOLTEACHER AND SAINT,
bv Paschal P. Parente, S. T. D.,
(Grail), $3.00.
(Reviewed by Leo J. Zuber).
Lucy Fiiippini (1672-1732), an
able and pious Italian woman,
served God and man in her role
as teacher and foundress of
schools and of an order of teach
ing Sisters. Living at a time when
formal education was a luxury for
those fortunate few who could af
ford it, Lucy Fiiippini strove to
provide schools and their oppor
tunities for as many as she could
reach.
She was the foundress of the
Religious Teachers Fiiippini) a
congregation of Sisters found in
this country only in restricted
parts of the East. As a child, Lucy
had a decided inclination toward
study and teaching, particularly
of religious subjects. Her adult
hood brought crosses that were
most difficult to bear, but it saw
the flowering of her teaching and
administrative ability. The name,
“Saintly Teacher,” given her in
life is still hers in death.
This is the first volume ever to
be published in English about the
saint. Its documentation is from
Italian sources. The basic research
for the biography is also by the
author, Father Pascal Parente of
the Catholic University of Ameri
ca.
Father Parente does a labor of
worthy merit in providing biogra
phies of persons of proven or of
apparent saintliness. This is not
the first of his works about such
individuals. The preparation of
this volume must have required
considerable time, effort and per
sistence. As an introductory bi
ography, it is perhaps a satisfac
tory volume.
In text and in illustrations,
however, it lacks the maturity of
treatment desired. There is and
there has been a surfeit of maud
lin and near-maudlin biographies
of saints. This one scarcely es
capes that category.
BOOKS RECEIVED
MEN IN SANDALS, by Rich
ard Madden, O. C. D,, (Bruce),
$2.50.
SCHOOL OF DARKNESS, by
Bella V. Dodd, (Kenedy). $4.00.
ANGEL OF THE ANDES, by
Mary Fabvan Windeatt, (St. An
thony Guild). $1.50.
KULIK'S FIRST SEAL HUNT,
by Alma .. Savage, (St. Anthony
Guild), $1.50.
YOUNG EAGLES; FREEDOM
DRUMS; DESPERATE DRUMS,
by Eva K. Betz, (St. Anthony
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A DREAM OF CHRISTMAS
EVE, by Anastasia Joan Kirby,
illustrated bv Janet Robson. (St.
Anthony Guild), cloth. 75c; pa
per, 50c.
MY FATHER'S HOUSE, verses
by M. H. Ruane, drawings Jsy
Janet Robson, (St. Anthohy
Guild), cloth, $1.00; paper, 75c,
MOTHER OF SANCTITY
Louise Vaughan, convert wife of
Col. John Francis Vaughan of
Courtfield, England, as long as
she lived spent an hour a day on
her knees begging God that all
her children be dedicated to the
service of the Church. Two boys
died in infancy, but of the 11 who
reached maturity, Herbert be
came a cardinal, Roger an arch
bishop, John an auxiliary bushop,
their three brothers were priests
and their five sisters nuns.
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