Also, by the same Author and Translator,

Devotion to the Nine Choirs of Holy Angels,

and especially to the Angel Guardians. 3s.

We congratulate Mr. Thompson on the way in which he has accomplished his task, and we earnestly hope that an increased devotion to the Holy Angels may be the reward of his labour of love.'-Tablet.

'A beautiful translation.'-Month.

'The translation is extremely well done.'-Weekly Register.

New Meditations for each Day in the Year, on the Life of our Lord Jesus Christ. By a Father of the Society of Jesus. With the imprimatur of the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. New and improved edition. Two vols. Cloth, 9s.; also in calf, 165.; morocco, 175. 'We can heartily recommend this book for its style and substance; it bears with it several strong recommendations. . . . It is solid and practical.' -Westminster Gazette.

A work of great practical utility, and we give it our earnest recommendation.'-Weekly Register.

The Day Sanctified; being Meditations and Spiritual Readings for Daily Use. Selected from the Works of Saints and approved Writers of the Catholic Church. Fcp. cloth, 35. 6d. ; red edges, 45.

'Of the many volumes of meditations on sacred subjects which have appeared in the last few years, none has seemed to us so well adapted to its object as the one before us.'-Tablet.

Deserves to be specially mentioned.'-Month. 'Admirable in every sense.'-Church Times. 'Many of the meditations are of great beauty. excellent little sermons, and we have no doubt will be largely used as such." -Literary Churchman.

They form, in fact,

Reflections and Prayers for Holy Com

munion. Translated from the French. With Preface by His Eminence the CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER. Fcp. 8vo, cloth, 4s. 6d.; bound, red edges, 5s.; calf, 9s.; morocco, ios.

"The Archbishop has marked his approval of the work by writing a preface for it, and describes it as 'a valuable addition to our books of devotion."-Register.

'A book rich with the choicest and most profound Catholic devotions.'Church Review.

Lallemant's Doctrine of the Spiritual Life.

Edited by the late Father FABER. New edition. Cloth, 4s. 6d.

"This excellent work has a twofold value, being both a biography and a volume of meditations. It contains an elaborate analysis of the wants, dangers, trials, and aspirations of the inner man, and supplies to the thoughtful and devout reader the most valuable instructions for the attainment of heavenly wisdom, grace, and strength.'-Catholic Times.

'A treatise of the very highest value.'-Month.

"The treatise is preceded by a short account of the writer's life, and has had the wonderful advantage of being edited by the late Father Faber.'Weekly Register.

The Rivers of Damascus and Jordan: a

Causerie. By a Tertiary of the Order of St. Dominic. 45. 'Good solid reading.'-Month.

'Well done and in a truly charitable spirit.'-Catholic Opinion.

'It treats the subject in so novel and forcible a light that we are fascinated in spite of ourselves, and irresistibly led on to follow its arguments and rejoice at its conclusions.'--Tablet.

Legends of our Lady and the Saints; or

our Children's Book of Stories in Verse. Written for the Recitations of the Pupils of the Schools of the Holy Child Jesus, St. Leonard's-on-Sea. 35.

'It is a beautiful religious idea that is realised in the Legends of our Lady and the Saints. The book forms a charming present for pious children.'- Tablet.

"The "Legends" are so beautiful that they ought to be read by all lovers of poetry.'-Bookseller.

'Graceful poems.'-Month.

The New Testament Narrative, in the Words of the Sacred Writers. With Notes, Chronological Tables, and Maps. New edition, revised. Cloth, 2s. 6d.

'The compilers deserve great praise for the manner in which they have performed their task. We commend this little volume as well and carefully printed, and as furnishing its readers, moreover, with a great amount of useful information in the tables inserted at the end.'-Month.

'It is at once clear, complete, and beautiful.'--Catholic Opinion.

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VOLUMES PUBLISHED.

The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier.

By the Rev. H. J. COLERIDGE. Sec. edit.

Two vols. 18s.

'We cordially thank Father Coleridge for a most valuable biography. He has spared no pains to insure our having in good classical English a translation of all the letters which are extant.... A complete priest's manual might be compiled from them, entering as they do into all the details of a missioner's public and private life. We trust we have stimulated our readers to examine them for themselves, and we are satisfied that they will return again and again to them as to a never-exhausted source of interest and edification.'--Tablet.

'A noble addition to our literature. We offer our warmest thanks to Father Coleridge for this most valuable work. The letters, we need hardly say, will be found of great spiritual use, especially for missionaries and priests.'-Dublin Review.

'One of the most fascinating books we have met with for a long time.'Catholic Opinion.

'Would that we had many more lives of saints like this! Father Coleridge has done great service to this branch of Catholic literature, not simply by writing a charming book, but especially by setting others an example of how a saint's life should be written.'-Westminster Gazette.

This valuable book is destined, we feel assured, to take a high place among what we may term our English Catholic classics. The great charm lies in the letters, for in them we have, in a far more forcible manner than any biographer could give them, the feelings, experiences, and aspirations of St. Francis Xavier as pictured by his own pen.'-Catholic Times.

'Father Coleridge does his own part admirably, and we shall not be sur prised to find his book soon take its place as the standard Life of the saintly and illustrious Francis.'-Nation.

'Not only an interesting but a scholarly sketch of a life remarkable alike in itself and in its attendant circumstances. We hope the author will continue to labour in a department of literature for which he has here shown his aptitude. To find a saint's life which is at once moderate, historical, and appreciative is not a common thing.'-Saturday Review.

'Should be studied by all missionaries, and is worthy of a place in every Christian library.'-Church Herald.

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The Life of St. Jane Frances Fremyot de Chantal. By EMILY BOWLES. With Preface by the Rev. H. J. COLERIDGE. Second edition. 5s. 6d.

'We venture to promise great pleasure and profit to the reader of this charming biography. It gives a complete and faithful portrait of one of the most attractive saints of the generation which followed the completion of the Council of Trent.'--Month.

'Sketched in a life-like manner, worthy of her well-earned reputation as a Catholic writer.'-Weekly Register.

'We have read it on and on with the fascination of a novel, and yet it is the life of a saint, described with a rare delicacy of touch and feeling such as is seldom met with.'-Tablet.

'A very readable and interesting compilation. . . . The author has done her work faithfully and conscientiously.'-Athenæum.

'Full of incident, and told in a style so graceful and felicitous that it wins upon the reader with every page.'-Nation.

'Miss Bowles has done her work in a manner which we cannot better commend than by expressing a desire that she may find many imitators. She has endued her materials with life, and clothed them with a language and a style of which we do not know what to admire most-the purity, the grace, the refinement, or the elegance. If our readers wish to know the value and the beauty of this book, they can do no better than get it and read it.'-Westminster Gazette.

'One of the most charming and delightful volumes which has issued from the press for many years. Miss Bowles has accomplished her task faithfully and happily, with simple grace and unpretentious language, and a winning manner which, independently of her subject, irresistibly carries us along.'Ulster Examiner.

The History of the Sacred Passion.

From

the Spanish of Father LUIS DE LA PALMA, of the Society of Jesus. The Translation revised and edited by the Rev. H. J. COLERIDGE. Third edition.

7s. 6d.

'A work long held in great and just repute in Spain. It opens a mine of wealth to one's soul. Though there are many works on the Passion in English, probably none will be found so generally useful both for spiritual reading and meditation. We desire to see it widely circulated.'--Tablet.

A sterling work of the utmost value, proceeding from the pen of a great theologian, whose piety was as simple and tender as his learning and culture were profound and exquisite. It is a rich storehouse for contemplation on the great mystery of our Redemption, and one of those books which every Catholic ought to read for himself.'-Weekly Register.

'The most wonderful work upon the Passion that we have ever read. To us the charm lies in this, that it is entirely theological. It is made use of largely by those who give the Exercises of St. Ignatius; it is, as it were, the flesh upon the skeleton of the Exercises. Never has the Passion been meditated upon so before. ... If any one wishes to understand the Passion of our Lord in its fulness, let him procure this book.'-Dublin Review.

'We have not read a more thoughtful work on our Blessed Lord's Pasion.

It is a complete storehouse of matter for meditation, and for sermons on that divine mystery.'-Catholic Opinion.

'The book is-speaking comparatively of human offerings-a magnificent offering to the Crucified, and to those who wish to make a real study of the Cross will be a most precious guide.'-Church Review.

Ierne of Armorica: a Tale of the Time of

Chlovis. By J. C. BATEMAN. 6s. 6d.

'We know of few tales of the kind that can be ranked higher than the beautiful story before us. The author has hit on the golden mean between an over-display of antiquarianism and an indolent transfer of modern modes of action and thought to a distant time. The descriptions are masterly, the characters distinct, the interest unflagging. We may add that the period is one of those which may be said to be comparatively unworked.'—Month.

'A volume of very great interest and very great utility. As a story it is sure to give much delight, while, as a story founded on historical fact, it will benefit all by its very able reproduction of very momentous scenes. . . . The book is excellent. If we are to have a literature of fiction at all, we hope it will include many like volumes.'-Dublin Review.

'Although a work of fiction, it is historically correct, and the author portrays with great skill the manners and customs of the times of which he professes to give a description. In reading this charming tale we seem to be taken by the hand by the writer, and made to assist at the scenes which he describes.'-Tablet.

"The author of this most interesting tale has hit the happy medium be tween a display of antiquarian knowledge and a mere reproduction in distant ages of commonplace modern habits of thought. The descriptions are excellent, the characters well drawn, and the subject itself is very attractive, besides having the advantage of not having been written threadbare.'Westminster Gazette.

The tale is excessively interesting, the language appropriate to the time and rank of the characters, the style flowing and easy, and the narrative leads one on and on until it becomes a very difficult matter to lay the book down until it is finished. . . . It is a valuable addition to Catholic fictional literature.'-Catholic Times.

A very pretty historico-ecclesiastical novel of the times of Chlovis. It is full of incident, and is very pleasant reading.'-Literary Churchman.

Public Life of our Lord. By the Rev. H. J. COLERIDGE, S.J. 3 vols. published. 6s. 6d.

per vol.

The Life of the Blessed John Berchmans. By the Rev. FRANCIS GOLDIE, S.J. 65.

'A complete and life-like picture, and we are glad to be able to congratu late Father Goldie on his success.'-Tablet.

'Drawn up with a vigour and freedom which show great power of biographical writing.'-Dublin Review.

'One of the most interesting of all.'-Weekly Register.

'Unhesitatingly we say that it is the very best Life of Blessed John