"May All My Days Be Like This Day!"
Books Published By The Catholic Publication Society.
The Life And Sermons Of The Rev. Francis A. Baker,
Priest of the Congregation of St. Paul, Edited
by Rev. F. A. Hewit. One volume, crown octavo, pp. 504, $2.50
Extracts From Notices Of The Press.
"Father Baker was a lovely boy, a wise and thoughtful youth, and a devout servant of Christ. The son of a Methodist, the graduate of a Presbyterian college, he became first an Episcopal clergyman, and then a Catholic priest. In all these changes, he everywhere won love; and whatever were the peculiarities of his character, he was a sincerely good and thoroughly pure man, and deserved the tribute which this remarkably appreciative and tender biography pays him."—
—New-York Watchman.
"After Newman's Apologia and Robertson's 'Life', the memoir contained in this volume is perhaps the most respectable clerical biography that we have met for a long time. We recommend such persons as have already attained to settled principles, and who may have an opportunity, to give the Memoir itself a thorough perusal. It is rich in personal reminiscences. It is, at the same time, like the 'Apologia', both an argument and a biography."
—Christian Times.
"Father Hewit's biography of his deceased friend is a most noticeable piece of writing. It is as impartial as could be expected, and has a marked local interest from its allusions to local affairs in religious circles. A great part of it is occupied with an elaborate view of the Oxford, or, as it is familiarly called here, the Puseyite movement, and of its effect on this country. The conversion of Bishop Ives, the remarkable scenes at the ordination of Rev. Arthur Carey, the movement toward a Protestant Oriental bishopric at Constantinople, in which Bishop Southgate was engaged, and various other features in recent church history, all are described, rendering the biography of marked interest to Episcopalians as well as to Catholics; while the history of Father Baker is a curious study of the operation of religious belief on a young, vigorous, and active mind."
—New-York Evening Post.