This is a volume of spiritual conferences or reading, specially intended for female religious. The piety and talent of its authoress are well known to the Catholic world. The present work has the imprimatur of the Bishop of Kerry, accompanied by a handsome tribute to the writer.
The Vessels of the Sanctuary: A Tale of Normandy.—The Inheritance. New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co. 1872.
Two charming little stories, translated from the French. We can heartily recommend them as affording pleasant and instructive reading for children.
“The Catholic Publication Society” has just published in Tract form the Pastoral Letter of the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland on the School Question. The price of this document is $3 00 per 100 copies. The same Society will also publish in pamphlet form Several Calumnies Refuted, or Executive Document No. 37. This will also be sold at $3 00 per 100. No less than 100 copies of either of these pamphlets will be sold at any one time.
“The Catholic Publication Society” has just issued a list of new books to be published by the Society this spring. It comprises fifteen books altogether. These are: Lenten Lectures, by Father Segneri; The Liquefaction of the Blood of St. Januarius; Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects, Vols. II. and III., by Archbishop Manning; French Eggs, in an English Basket; Little Pierre, the Pedlar of Alsace, illustrated by twenty-seven first class woodcuts; Maggie’s Rosary; Constance Sherwood, by Lady Fullerton, illustrated; The House of Yorke, with illustrations; The Eighth Series of Sunday-School Libraries, illustrated; The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier, by Rev. H. J. Coleridge, S.J.; Madame de Chantal and Her Family; St. Jerome and his Correspondents; Bibliographia Catholica Americana, by Rev. J. M. Finotti—this book is published by subscription; and The Men and Women of the Protestant Reformation in England. All these books, as soon as ready, will be announced in our Literary Bulletin, as well as all other new Catholic books published in this country or in England.
Mr. P. O’shea, New York, announces as in press, Lectures on the Church, by Rev. D. W. Merrick, S.J., of St. Francis Xavier’s Church, New York.
Received: Landreth’s Rural Register and Almanac—1872. Published for gratuitious distribution. David Landreth & Son, 21 South Sixth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Transcriber’s Note:
Volume 14 contains six monthly issues of the publication. At the bottom of the first page of each issue is a notice that it was entered into the Library of Congress. This notice was moved to follow the issue number and date.
Page numbers are displayed in the right margin. (This feature may be disabled in some e-readers.) Footnotes and anchors were renumbered sequentially. The footnotes were moved to the end of the article, poem, or item. There are three anchors for Footnote [113].