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Editorial Praises
Flannery O'Connor
(Atlanta Journal)
Miss Flannery O’Connor,
Georgia’s distinguished novelist
and short-story writer, has had
her fine talents recognized once
more.
This time it is by the Ford
Foundation. The Foundation is
awarding her a stipend which
happily will enable Miss O’Con
nor to do nothing but write dur
ing the next two years, if she is
so disposed.
We submit this is a fine way
to honor creative minds—to free
them from want in the hope
they will realize their full po
tential — and we congratulate
the Ford Foundation on the
good sense of it.
We congratulate Miss O’Con
nor, of course, for being on the
receiving end. The grant is
acutely a measure of her stature
as a writer, for she is one of 11
writers so recognized.
She writes such fine prose,
we are delighted to rear back
and contemplate what the grant
can mean in the way of new
products of her pen.
THREE CARDINALS: New-
man-Wiseman-Manning by E. E.
Reynolds, Kenedy, $5.50.
(Reviewed by Rt. Rev. Msgr.
T. James McNamara)
This biographical study of the
three Cardinals, who played the
leading role in the formal re
establishment of our great
Church in ancient England, —
so aptly described by the gentle
Newman as “The Second
Spring,” — should hold high
interest for us of the Diocese of
Savannah. Entertainingly writ
ten and historically accurate.
The Three Cardinals in its nar
ration enables us the better to
understand the rotiocination of
those among whom we live, who
are not of our Faith.
Our region is very English in
its origin and its religious men
tality finds a ready counterpart
in the religious mentality of
The Three Cardinal’s England.
Born in the region and having
lived all his years in the region,
save for those years of prepara
tion for the Priesthood, the re
viewer as he perused the pages
of this book found himself time
and time again living circum
stances out of his own exper
iences and meeting again with
people of personal acquaintance.
The hook then has its apologetic
value for both priest and lay
man of the Diocese, who would
understand their non-Catholic
neighbor the better.
Thoughtfully read this hook
through the delineation of the
personality of Cardinal Wiseman
indicates how best the priest,
the layman, seeking to serve the
Church’s Apostolate, can ap
proach the well-intentioned
non-Catholic; through the de
lineation of the personality of
Cardinal Manning, the book
makes for a tolerance of the
aggressive and at times self-
opinionated non-Catholic, who
nevertheless is well-intentioned
in his pursuit of truth; and
through the delineation of the
personality of Cardinal New
man gives to one and all a touch
of that gentility and sweetness
IMAGE BOOKS
Eight new titles were added
on February 11 to the steadily
growing list of Catholic classics
and popular literature available
in the Image Books peper-cover
format. They are:
THE IDEA OF A UNIVER
SITY, by John Henry Cardinal
Newman, $1.35 — a book which
has probably done more than
any other to stimulate reflection
on the character and aims of
higher education.
TERESA OF AVILA, by Mar
cello Auclair, $1.35 — biography
of one of the greatest and most
attractive of women saints,
written by a woman author,
with scrupulous historical accu
racy, rare vividness and a
wealth of telling detail.
PLAYED BY EAR, the auto
biography of Father Daniel A.
Lord, S. J., 95c — more than
just the life of a humble, gifted
and dedicated man — it is also
his penetrating thoughts and
reflections on our own lives and
times, on modern education,
family life, and the myriad
challenges of this modern era.
SAINT PETER THE APOS
TLE, by William Thomas Walsh,
95c — a glowing and inspiring
picture, full of warmth and
color, which reproduces the
early days of the Church, the
great figures of early Christen
dom and above all the towering
colossus who. became the Vicar
of Christ on earth, the first
pope.
THE LOVE OF GOD, by Ael-
red Graham, O. S. B., 85c — a
lucid treatment of the spiritual
life of inestimable value to the
intelligent reader, profound, in
spiring: and enlightening.
DARK NIGHT OF THE
SOUL, by St. John of the Cross,
75c — E. Allison Peers, trans
lator, calls the verse and prose
works of St. John of the Cross
“the most grandiose and the
most melodious spiritual can
ticle to which any one man has
ever given utterance.”
MY BELOVED, the story of a
Carmelite Nun, by Mother
Catherine Thomas, 75c — the
author, a typically American
woman, writes with candor,
sensitivity and a delicious sense
of humor of her three decades
in the cloister.
WOMAN OF THE PHARI
SEES, by Francois Mauriac, 75c
— a subtle portrait of self-love
at its most vindictive — one of
the great novels of modern
times.
HARRY VERNON AT PREP,
by Franc Smith, Houghton Mif
flin, $3.00.
(Reviewed by
Flannery O’Connor)
This book is an intended
satire on prep school teachers.
A petty thief with a photo
graphic memory and a good
command of academic jargon
gets himself a position in an
Eastern prepschool and in a
first person narrative recounts
his adventures there. A great
comic artist, a Gogol or a Nabo
kov, might be able to do some
thing with this, but Mr .Smith
does not have the qualifications.
The book’s humor depends en
tirely on the device of exaggera
tion, one which appeals mainly
to loutist school boys and can
be found best exemplified in
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$1,000 in cash awards and the McGeary Foundation Gold
Medal are to be presented for the best treatment of a book
or books appearing in a diocesan newspaper in 1959, accord
ing to a full-page announcement in the current issue of THE
CRITIC.
This, it says, is “a competition to eneouragte broad and
effective treatment of books in the Catholic Press.”
According to the contest rules, “treatment of book or
books” shall be taken to mean a review, feature, picture story,
editorial or any other presentation of one or more books in a
Catholic diocesan newspaper published in the United States
during calendar year 1959.
Entries, the announcement continues, must be submitted
to “Diocesan Newspaper Contest. The Thomas More Associ
ation. 210 West Madison Street, Chicago 6, Illinois, by January
15, 1960. Any number of entries may be submitted, but each
must be submitted by the publishing newspaper and accom
panied by a letter identifying its contents as entries in the
competition.
The McGeary Foundation Gold Medal is to be awarded
to the newspaper publishing the first prize-winner.
The author or authors of the first, second and third prize
winners, respectively, will receive $500, $300, and $200.
Surely THE BULLETIN must keep this contest in mind
and submit some entries.
I will appreciate, not onlv your continued good contribu
tions, but also suggestions from all of you on which reviews
we shall keep on file for possible submission in the contest
at the end of the year. Your opinions of the book reviews which
will appear in THE BULLETIN in 1959 will be of much help
in this matter.
Sincerely,
EILEEN HALL.
English versions were made
from the incomplete Italian
translation of the Latin.
Written in collequial modern
English by Raphael Brown,
Franciscan tertiary, reference
librarian at the Library of Con
gress in Washington, and a lead
ing Franciscan scholar, the new
edition has been hailed by the
Rev. Marion A. Habig, O. F. M.,
an expert in the field, as a
“richly rewarding” edition that
“will become justly famous.”
The book also includes “The
Five Considerations on the Holy
Stigmata,” “The Life of Brother
Juniper,” a new version of “The
Life of Brother Giles” by his
friend Brother Leo, and “The
Saying of Brother Giles,” as
well as maps, biographical
sketches, notes, and a compre
hensive bibliography. Important
new data concerning the book’s
author, based on recent dis
covery sources, is given in the
work’s introduction.
PRACTICAL TEST
An education is only half
the problem—the student must
learn how to use it after he gets
it.
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college humor magazines. If this
were the book’s only fault it
could be recommended for boys
who never grow up and dis
missed. Unfortunately, it has a
pretension to seriousness. The
jacket informs us that Mr.
Smith attended parochial
schools; this is a blinking light
to caution the Catholic reader.
True to our expectations, the
only “good” characters are Cath
olics, innocent and with hearts
of gold. The heel-hero is also
basicly innocent and with a
heart of gold and though he is
not a Catholic, he feels a strong
attraction to good Catholic liv
ing. All this makes a painful
book more painful.
THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF
ST. FRANCIS, edited and trans
lated by Rapheal Brown (Han
over House, $3.95).
This new edition of the fam
ous classic includes nineteen ad
ditional chapters which have
never before been printed in
English. It is the only edition
based on the orginal Latin text
of Fra Ugolino di Monte Santa
Marie, the gifted 14th-century
Franciscan author. All other
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