From the bookshelves: XI
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- From the Bookshelves: XI OIJR LADY IN THE MODERN WORLD by Daniel A. Lord, S.J., The Queen’s Work 881 pages. Price—six pesos. What has Mary, the Mother of God, to say to the man and wo man faced with modern problems, the difficulties of 1947, the “new morality”? What has she to say of: Love, Purity, Personality, the family, human rights and dignity, social life, marriage, vocation, one’s daily job, tyranny, work, our duty to others, the love of God and Here is the Roman Catholic answer to the many perplexing questions that many half baked newspaper columnists try to give to the credulous multitude. Here, at last, is an authority on our problems. Here is one who understands our problems. For Mary, the Mother of God, is un iquely the woman. And then too, she ”... is intensely modern. We are not in the least surprised when the latest art exhibit shows a Madonna and Child clothed in the garment of midwestern peo ple, their features more beautiful than but very much like'those of the mother and child that live next door. We are not surprised that into our muddled modern life Mary’s virtues come with a freshness and appeal that- catch our approving interest." THE LIFE OF CHRIST by Giu seppe Ricciotti, The Bruce Publishing Company. 7 0 3 pages. Price—fifteen pesos. Aside from the book’s value as a critical and historical contri bution, it is deeply interesting reading as biography. The ■Christ of the Gospels can scarcely be discovered and properly under stood without background and ex planatory information. Here are both the life of Christ and the historical and geographical infor mation. It is a rare book that can satisfy the student and delight the average reader at the same time. THE WOOL MERCHANT OF SEGOVIA by Mabel Farnum, The Bruce Publishing ComAUGUST, 1947 pany. 202 pages. Price—four pesos. In this book on the life of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, Miss Far num has performed gracefully and thoroughly a triple service of great magnitude. In masterful description she has evoked the colorful and romantic cities of sixteenth and early seventeenth century Spain. She has recon structed the complicated and elusive mosaic of a Saint. She has presented for the first time in popular form a book depicting the life of a Jesuit community toge ther with a classic survey of the first ninety years of the illus trious Society of Jesus. AUGUSTINE’S QUEST OF WIS DOM by Vernon J. Bourke, The Bruce Publishing Com pany. 323 pages. Price—six pesos. More than anything else, this work is a study of St. Augus tine’s phenomenal moral, intel lectual, and philosophical growth from his dissolute youth and his Manicheanism to the end of his earthly days as honored bishop of Hippo and author of the City of God. The Confessions, and more than one hundred other learned literary works. Emphasized, in spite of the scope of the book, are the most important phases of the Augus tinian philosophy. Dr. Bourke ex plains in laymen’s language such vital utterances as the saint’s Theory of Divine Illumination, The Hierarchy of Reality, The Inter-relation of Faith and Rea son, and other metaphysical enig mas. INFORMATION PLEASE AL MANAC 1947, John Kieran, Editor, Doubleday & Com pany, Inc. 1014 pages. Price —four pesos. You can pick up Information Plea'se Almanac a thousand times, and each time find something you did not know before—a fact you need, a useful bit of knowledge. Or, you can sit down and read the book for fun and improve