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DECEMBER'21,' 1957. THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FIFTEEN-B (Christmas Cjreetingd SLUSHY BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES, Inc. w ftf. ft ti ft ft Si a ft ft ft • i j ft . ft V jWf W ■ ft ft p ft p- ft §.*• . ft ft ft s ft ■ fe h? hi? §£ ft v R 5** |* ft ft. 4* 4? 4? a • ate 1 4* 5 v *■», 10C3 BROAD ST. -:- -PHONE 2-4477 | AUGUSTA, GA. I ft ,%,%> £' >' £; '23% r % >* >« Si 5i '5-i*&%i'MaS38"2th>i3-i 3$ JSSiSiSi%"Si'%SiSiSiSiSSSSSSSSSiSM yj/jerru C^Lriitm ad "The Department Store for Your Office’’ BOOK REVIEWS EDITED BY EILEEN HALL 3087 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 read er and every contributor may be specially favored by her and her Divine Son. OFFICE SUPPLY if* ft ft 9% ft 9% ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft —TOM STUART— 575-987 BROAD ST. PHONE 4 3512 AUGUSTA, GEORGIA NOT ONLY YOUR OFFICE SUPPLIED. BUT ALSO YOUR OFFICE ADVISOR 4?’ ft ft • V w vt 4° 4“ 5»* ftp* a. ft ft. u Merry Christmas MULHERIN LUMBER COMPANY « ■ tt INCORPORATED 625 THIRTEENTH STREET AUGUSTA, GA. Hi *4 ¥ ft* ft ft i“ ft* Si ft • i* ft.- 4" ft ft. I*' ft. a ft. < ft & ft ft ft- y 4*- 4* ft* & a# ft v a ft- B ft ft 4* 4* 4- WLy (SLridtmad SIG Air Conditioning Refrigeration Automatic Heating 15 45 n .45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 45 <5 45 45 55 8 45 45 45 45 45 A NEW LOOK AT CHRIST MAS DECORATIONS, by Sister M. Gratia Listaite, S.S.C., and Norbert A. Hildebrand (Bruce, $4.95). THE MEANING OF CHRIST MAS, by A. M. Avril, O. P., trans lated by S. O. Palleske (Fides, $2.75). THE CHRISTIAN LIFE CAL ENDAR. 1957-1958, by Rev. Gab riel Ward Hafford and Rev. George Kolanda (Bruce, $1.00). “Christmas is often said to be for children,” the authors of the beautifully illustrated book on Christmas decorations begin their introduction. “It were more truly said to be for the family. For this great holiday celebrating the birth of the Infant Jesus Christ is also, in a sense, a feast of the Holy Family . . .” The book de scribes, in picture and text, typi cal Christmas decorations from twenty-seven nations and shows how they can be made with ordi nary materials. Sister Gratia, a Chicago art teacher, and her stu dents developed the projects out lined in the book; Mr. Hilde brand, formerly public relations director at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, collabo rated in producing this attractive volume. Pere Avril’s book The Meaning of < nrisimas, originated as ser mons delivered on the National French Chain. There is one for each Sunday from the First Sun day of Advent to the Sixth Sun day after Epiphany, inclusive; and one for each of the great feasts in the Christmas cycle. In his preface, the author explains why he did not “change their form, although a written text . . . has demands other than those of the spoken word, and he hopes “that others in their turn may be able to use something from these simple homilies and adapt them to new audiences . . .” They are of fered as sermon suggestions for busy priests and also for spiritual reading for all who “are thirsty for fuller understanding of and participation in the liturgical life of the Church.” Those who have used The Chris tian Life Calendar other years will want the new edition. If you have not used it before, there is a happy surprise for you if you get one now. It begins with the First Sunday of Advent, the be ginning of the liturgical year, so it should have been hanging on your wall before December 1. The usual useful information is in cluded for Catholics who wish to participate in the liturgical cycles of the Church, as well as the au thors’ ususal clever comments on saints and sanctity for each day of the year. portant, and is addressed to a skeptical world.” He presents a convincing argument in his own foreword and afterword, as well as in the ten contributions he has elicited from ten “serious and tal ented novelists” who are working at their crafts here and now. Among the ten are two Geor gians: Paul Darcy Boles w T ho “lives in Atlanta, where he has taught several courses in the novel at Georgia State College. His fifth novel, as yet untitled, is scheduled for publication in 1958, and he is currently working on the sixth”; and Flannery O’Con nor who “was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. She was grad uated from the Georgia State Col lege for Women, and took her master’s degree at State Univer sity of Iowa. She lives near Mil- ledgeville, Georgia, and is writing her second novel. Her stories have been published in many maga zines, and one of them received first prize in the O. Henry Memo rial Award for 1956.” Miss O’Connor’s contribution is of particular interest to Bulletin readers who enjoy and profit by her book reviews which appear regularly on this page. She, says Editor Hicks, “speaks openly and with feeling about the relation between her writing and her religion.” Her essay, the proposition tnat tne novel is lm- (Continued on Page 16-B) ¥ * 11 » ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ M 34 V ¥ ¥ V ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ if ¥ ii ¥ ¥ v ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ THE LIVING NOVEL, a sym posium, edited by Granville Hicks (Macmillian, $4.50). “This book,” says the edi tor, “is dedicated to the proposition that the novel is im- CLARENCE MOBLEY CONTRACTING CO. "Lowest Price — Maintenance Considered" GENERAL CONTRACTORS PARTNERS: C. W. Mobley, Jr., L. M. Mobley, C. W. Mobley, III ASSOCIATES: E. B. Alrich, Brad Bennett General Building • Public Utilities • Rural Electrification AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 1431 Greene St. Phone 2-3556 Augusta, Georgia ft ^l l jc rrij Cl rid.t. .mad ¥ ¥ If V % HILL DRUG COMPANY £ 1432 Motile Sano Avenu® — Pkones 3-3S21—3-3661 * ? i AUGUSTA. GEORGIA . k 1 r PRESCRIPTION SERVICE Our Thoughts of You! M e finally found the happy words that will our thoughts convey; And draw this pie of old St. Nick, his reindeer and his sleigh. M e loaded down our Santa Glaus with words for him to say. And told him to deliver them to you on Christmas Day. Among these words are “Season’s!’ “Yule,’ and oh. there’s “Happy!’ too, But best of all ice think is this: “Merry Christmas, Friends, To You!’ GEORGIA RAILROAD BANK 6c TRUST COMPANY I AUGUSTA, GEORGIA MAIN OFFICE —781 Broad UPTOWN BRANCH—1103 Broad. GWINNETT ST. BRANCH DANIEL VILLAGE Gwinnett at Elevenlk BRANCH FORT GORDON FACILITY Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Federal Reserve System.