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The Road to Peace by James J. DalyReview by: R. C. F.The Irish Monthly, Vol. 65, No. 768 (Jun., 1937), p. 431Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20514152 .

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vice. The emphasis in this volume is consequently upon the fulfilment of the tasks, duties and opportunities of the pastoral ministry. Its underlying thesis is: Personal sanctity is achieved through the faithful and zealout discharge of the duties of the priestly office. Sanctification comes from work done in a consecrated spirit for Almighty God. The measure of sanctity for the pastor will always be his zeal for souls. Holiness, in short, is but zeal functioning." Thus writes Father O'Brien in the foreword of his book. His work, therefore, deals with the priest in action. The Greatest Calling is a book rather for priests on retreat, and is, in fact, adapted from conferences given by Archbishop Waitz at a priests' retreat.

A word of special praise must be added of the translation done of Arch bishop Waitz's work by Father Stang.

It is often difficult to find " a good book for priests." The two books under review may be strongly recommended.

R. C. F.

The Road to Peace. By James J. Daly, S.J. (U.S.A.: Bruce Publishing Company. Dublin: Fitzpatrick, Ltd., 17 Upper O'Connell Street. Pp. 191. Price 8/6.)

Father Daly, whose " A Cheerful Ascetic " revealed an urbane essayist and whose " Boscobel " was the work of an unusual poet, offers in these twenty-one essays spiritual reading which is at the same time good writing.

The book is meant to be a guide along the road to heaven, the home of peace. Father Daly vests each familiar sign-post with beauty and with new meaning. The Road to Peace figures in the Religion and Culture Series of books of the Bruce Publishing Company.

R. C. F.

Education with a Tradition. An account of the educational work of the Society of the Sacred Heart. By M. O'Leary, Ph.D., M.A. (University of ILondon Press. Pp. 340. Price 12/6.)

"The object of this book is to study the contribution made to the pro gress of education by the Society of the Sacred Heart. It is proposed to try to give expression to the ideals, aims, methods and spirit of a Teaching

Order founded in France in the first years of the nineteenth century and now spread throughout the whole world." This scholarly work is thought-ful and thought-provoking. It was presented as a thesis for the Ph.D. degree of the University of London and is a study of the value of tradition in

matters educational. The tradition considered is that which the Catholic Church has set before girls and women ever since the days of St. Jerome and of the monastic schools. Historically the book deals mainly with the

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