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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 * 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 Guild), $2.00 each. 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. Books of Love and Faith for Christmas Giving Now at Popular Prices Give a gift of hope and inspiration this Christ mas. The Doubleday Company’s new Image Book series brings you the world’s finest Catholic literature in budget priced paperback copies. Included in the series are: The Church Speaks to the Modern World, the social teachings of Pope Leo XIII, edited by Eti enne Gilson, an Image Book original 95c The Diary of a Country Priest, by Georges Bernanos, original edi tion $4 65c The Spirit of Catholicism, by Kail Adam, original edition $3.75, 75c Peace of Soul, by Fulton J. 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