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ANY even among the intelligent and instructed, imagine that they can indulge with impunity in the indiscriminate reading of all kinds of literature, but it is a grave mistake, says Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh, in his recent pastoral. Slowly perhaps, and insensibly, but not less certainly, will an injurious effect be produced. The body is not more certainly affected by the food upon which it has been nourished than the mind by the thoughts to which it has long been habituated. But if injurious effects may be produced on minds that are mature and judgments that have been regulated by experience, how much more certainly will they be produced on the impressionable, unsuspecting, inexperienced minds of youth. Here arises the very grave obligation by which the heads of families are bound to exercise care, vigilance, and judgment in excluding from their homes all literature which might be injurious to those under their care. Suspicion in this matter is laudable; over-confidence may be ruinous.

Nor is it enough to guard youth against doubtful or injurious literature. They should be supplied with sound, solid, wholesome reading-reading which will furnish both instruction and amusement without prejudice to either inno.cence or edification.

We take the following passage from the notable pastoral letter by Bishop McFaul, of Trenton, N. J., and at the same time strongly commend the pamphlet to our readers. It is published by Benziger Brothers, New York, and only costs ten cents; yet it is a whole volume of good, practical, Catholic reading:

What shall we say of the efficacy of good books upon family life and thought! When we speak of books we do not mean to restrict them to religious and devotional works. No; we include all healthy literature. In our day everybody reads. Periodicals, pamphlets, and newspapers are the literature of the millions. It is the daily newspaper, however, that enjoys the largest patronage. We must have the news warm, at our breakfast table every morning. No doubt, a newspaper is a potent factor for good or for evil; and America publishes some excellent secular newspapers, which may safely be introduced into the family. Our religious weeklies are performing a very beneficial work, and should receive a more generous support. Every Catholic family should subscribe for a Catholic newspaper and a Catholic magazine, possess a small library of religious books, and such other works as will instruct and interest.

But, what about those purveyors of uncleanness, the vulgar sheets reeking with narratives so largely read by all classes? Reprove them for their vileness, and the reply is. "We print the news." Yes, they do, and such news; and such advertisements! Let us recall the words of the Apostle of the Gentiles: "But all uncleanness ... let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints; or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose" (Eph. v. 3, 4).

THIS LETTER SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

MOUNT ANGEL COLLEGE,
MOUNT ANGEL, OREGON.
February 23, 1905.

EDITOR DONAHOE'S MAGAZINE,

Boston, Mass.

DEAR SIR:

Will you please tell me where I may order " Whisper" by Frances Wynne-the book of poems, so affectionately reviewed by Father Russell in your last New Year's edition? Or still better, if it be not too much trouble for you, will you order the book for me?

By the way, I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to tell you how much I like your Magazine. I know of no magazine in which the illustrations are selected with such an æsthetic taste, reproduced with such artistic finesse, and shrouded in such a poetic halo as in your Magazine. The articles, too, are so interesting and instructive that I cannot see how any Catholic family, imbued with truly Catholic instinct and sensibility, can prefer to subscribe to purely secular magazines in place of yours.

I am particularly fond of Fr. Talbot Smith's articles on opera and stage. I venture to say that I regard the idea as superannuated, that the stage is fundamentally bad and that the attendance at theatres is to be frowned upon by all good Catholics. As there are good books and bad books, good friends and bad friends, so there are good plays and bad plays, and as no sane man will discourage the reading of all books on account of the pernicious influence of the many bad books, so I cannot see why, on account of the many bad plays, we should not go to see the good plays. Let me add that the percentage of bad books in the book market is much larger than the percentage of bad plays on the stage. There is no more powerful factor for good than the stage, as, of course, there is no stronger factor for evil than the stage. This was evidently recognized in the good medieval days when the attendance of miracle plays was highly encouraged by the clergy and, I believe, even rewarded by the granting of indulgences.

He who points out to the untrained with the authority of a connoisseur, which plays are good and which are bad, and trains our eyes in the school of dramatic criticism, so that we may distinguish for ourselves good plays from bad ones, does a very noble and priestly work.

Respectfully yours,

F. DOMINIC, O.S.B.

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Contemporaries. His attitude Towards Clerical and Monastic Life, and towards Catholic Observances.-The Papacy and King John and Henry VIII.The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Church.-Coleridge's Judgment, Taine's, and Dowden's.-Puritanism Within the Church and Without.-The Effects of the Break Up of Western Christendom. Shakespeare's Use of the Bible.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.-Carter.—Shakespeare, Puritan and Recusant.

Pym Yeatman.-The Gentle Shakespeare. The Roxburghe Press, 3 Victoria Street, Westminster.

H. S. Bowden.-The Religion of Shakespeare. Burns & Oates, Orchard Street, London.

Edward Dowden.-Shakespeare, his Mind and Art. C. Kegan Paul, London.

W. S. Lilly.-Studies in Religion and Literature. Chapman & Hall, London.

Charles Wordsworth.-Shakespeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible. Eden, Remington & Co., London.

G. Wilkes. Shakespeare From an American Point of View. Sampson, Son.

etc.

Sidney Lee.-Life of Shakespeare. Smith, Elder & Co., London.
Histories of England.-Froude, Gairdner, Gasquet, Tessop, F. G. Lee,

Karl Elze.-William Shakespeare. (Translated.) George Bell, London. W. J. Birch. The Philosophy and Religion of Shakespeare. London, 1848.

A Cosmopolite.-Shakespeare, Was he a Christian? London, 1862. Edinburgh Review, January, 1866.-Was Shakespeare a Roman Catholic? Chateaubriand.-Essai sur la Littérature Anglaise (1. 195).

Reichensperger.-William Shakespeare, insbesondere sein Verhältniss zum Mittelalter und zur Gegenwart. Münster, 1872.

1870.

Flir. Briefe über Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Ebrard. Das Verhältniss Shakespeare's zum Christenthum. Erlanger,

Holinshed's Chronicles.

American Catholic Quarterly Review, October, 1879.-Shakespeare's Religious Convictions, by Dr. Harper, brother of the late Father Harper, S. J. In conjunction with the Catholic Club of New York City, the Champlain Summer-School arranged an extension course of lectures on Some Women of Shakespeare, by Dr. James J. Walsh, Ph.D., LL.D. A synopsis is here given:

WOMEN OF THE GREAT POETS.-Shakespeare has many heroines, but no heroes. Ruskin says: "No men who stand in unmarred greatness." This is not surprising in the light of constant traditions among the great poets. Homer's women stand out almost as supremely as Shakespeare's. The women characters of the great Greek dramatist are the prototypes of Shakespeare's women. Dante's Beatrice, the first modern type of the poetic ideal of woman's position in life.

A WOMAN WHO LOVED.-The story of Romeus and Juliet before

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