We can do no more now than call the attention of our readers to this most beautiful work—beautiful in every sense—of which we have received advance sheets. The author’s name needs no introduction to Catholic readers. We reserve for a future date a fuller notice of a well-conceived and admirably executed work, one too of great practical utility. Father O’Reilly’s statement in the preface, that “the publishers have spared neither labor nor expense to make this book most beautiful in form,” is obviously true at the first glance.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD.
VOL. XXV., No. 147.—JUNE, 1877.
THE PAPAL JUBILEE.
SONNETS BY AUBREY DE VERE.
I.
THE GREAT PILGRIMAGE.
What beam is that, guiding once more from far
Earth’s Elders Rome-ward over sea and land?
What Sanctity, serene as Bethlehem’s star,
From East and West leads on each pilgrim band?
God’s light it is—on an unsceptred Hand!
God’s promise, shining without let or bar,