After twenty-two years of helpless suffering the use of her limbs was miraculously restored to Julie. During a mission at Amiens, Father Enfantin, a member of the Fathers of the Faith, who highly esteemed Julie's work, and knowing that she could do more for God's glory if she had the use of her limbs, said to her: "I am beginning to-day a novena to the Sacred Heart for a person in whom I am interested. Will you join ?" Julie, unsuspecting, promised to join. On the following Friday, after the erection of the mission cross, Father Enfantin suddenly came to Julie, who was sitting in her chair, and said: "Mother, if you have any faith, take one step in honor of the Heart of Jesus." Julie rose and took the required step-the first for twenty-two years. "Take another." She obeyed. "Take a third." Again she obeyed, remarking that she felt able to continue. "No, that will do. Sit down." And Father Enfantin went away, forbidding her to tell the sisters what had happened. The cure was permanent. The biography continues:

The sisters had already retired for the night and noticed nothing, for, in spite of her infirmities, Julie needed no help to undress, but slipped on to her low couch from a chair of the same height. For three days she kept her cure a secret, maintaining her self-control so far that she remained seated when, on the following Sunday, the public procession of the Blessed Sacrament passed her door. On the last day of the novena Father Enfantin gave her leave to publish the fact. Julie prolonged her thanksgiving after Mass, while the sisters went down to breakfast. The little orphans, with their mistress, were in the adjoining room, with a glass door looking on the staircase. Suddenly one of the youngest of them gave "Look, Ma Mère is walking downstairs!"

a scream.

The closing chapter of this excellent piece of biography, in which the story of a modern valiant woman, whose life was one of wonderful activity and true sanctity, is told with good sense and literary ability, contains a modest account of the successes which have attended the labors of her children. Among these successes is that which the work of the Sisters of Notre Dame has achieved in America. "For sixty-three years they have helped the bishops and pastors of the United States to solve the difficult problem of equipping and maintaining Catholic

wise inferior to the State schools financed at the public expense. Their success in educational matters may be gauged from the fact that Julie's American daughters have been selected by the hierarchy to open Trinity College in connection with the Catholic University at Washington." The latest foreign expansion of the order has been in the Transvaal, whither some English Sisters settled last year; and already the political struggle going on there now threatens to involve their suppression.

A sense for scientific completeness, HISTORY OF COMMERCE. probably, induced the author of this text-book for beginners in economics* to start ab ovo, by

By Day.

sketching the conditions of trade, or all that we know about them, as they existed in the Mesopotamian Valley and along the banks of the Nile, in the days before Joseph. But the author is obviously conscious that the student has but little valuable information to gain from our scanty knowledge of the commerce of these ancient times or of the subsequent ages of early Greece and Rome. For he disposes of all these periods in about thirty pages, out of a total of over six hundred, and begins his serious work in Part II., devoted to Medieval Com

merce.

This part, covering from about the year 1000 to 1500, is a brief but suggestive sketch of the medieval commercial and industrial world. The story of the rise and expansion of commercial Europe, till it assumes the huge proportions which belong to it in the nineteenth century, makes a large demand on the writer's powers of lucid statement, method, and condensation. Up to the beginning of the last century, the history is little more than a bare outline. But from that date commerce of the various European countries, especially of England and Germany, is treated with rich detail, and the salient factors brought out in bold relief. One hundred and fifty pages are given to the history of the commercial growth of the United States; but, except so far as it is incidentally noted in relation to this country, South America is ignored. The part played by the introduction of railways, and manufacturing machinery, the cultivation of cotton, mining, and shipping receive sufficient atten

tion, but the same can scarcely be said of the agricultural expansion since 1835.

To keep so large a subject, however, within the reasonable limits of a text-book, means that some things had to be unduly crowded, or even crowded out. A work of this kind, in the production of which the author has had but little help from similar attempts by predecessors in the endeavor, cannot be expected to attain anything like perfection before it reaches a second or a third, or even a fourth edition, a success to which this one will, no doubt, attain. There are numerous special bibliographies attached to the various divisions, and a large general list of works at the end. To every chapter is added a list of questions well adapted to stimulate the pupil to the cultivation of reflection and personal research.

PATROLOGY.

Students of early church history and patrology will welcome the appearance of another volume of the series of early texts and documents which is being issued under the editorship of MM. Hemmer and Lejay. The present number * contains the Didaché, or Doctrine of the Apostles, and the Epistle of Barnabas. The Greek text is accompanied by a French version, critical notes, and references. M. Hemmer has furnished an erudite, critical introduction to the Didaché, while M. Ogier has written one for the Epistle. The introduction, tables, critical and explanatory notes, place a scholarly knowledge of these two valuable documents of Christian origins within easy grasp of the industrious student.

SOME RECENT VERSE.

Much depth of feeling and much delicate beauty of thought have gone into the making of Miss Logue's brief poems. "The Quiet Hour "t-happily named for its suggestion of solitude and veiled twilight memories fraught with tenderness and pain-is a creditable addition to contemporary Catholic verse. There are signs of immaturity in the little volume, but none the less it has sincere artistic purpose. And in more than one poem Miss Logue has undeniably touched

* Les Pères Apostoliques. I. Doctrine des Apotres. Épitre de Barnabé. Hemmer, Ogier et Laurent. Paris: Picard et Fils.

The Quiet Hour. And Other Verses. By Emily Logue. Philadelphia: Peter Reilly;

life. The quieter tragedies of men-and particularly of women— are very real to her; but real also is the nearness of God, the pity of his gracious Mother, and the watchful angels. "The Waiting Love" is characteristic in its blending of divine and human love, as also in its severe simplicity and absence of imagery or metaphor. Devotional and meditative poems predominate in the collection, although there is a charming blankverse narrative of St. Wenceslaus, and the sonnets are, as a rule, excellent. That entitled "The Poet"

Most Godlike man of men! upon thy heart

The woes of all the world are graven deep

is one of Miss Logue's best pieces of work, and makes us hopeful of her poetic future.

The Toiler, a new volume by the Canadian author of Songs of the Wayside, brings with it a message of cheer and sympathy and earnest courage. Dr. Fischer has a true love of humanity and of natural beauty; but in metre and in diction he might well be more fastidious. From a critical From a critical standpoint "June Mornings" is far better than the title poem; it has in fact more precision of form and more originality of conception than almost any other in the collection.

A new Christmas story in special holiday dress and ornamented pages, entitled The Little City of Hope,† by F. Marion Crawford, has just been published by The Macmillan Company. The tale, as with all of Mr. Crawford's work, is admirably done from the viewpoint of writing; but why it should be called a Christmas story, save that it is published for the holiday time and mentions Christmas, we are at a loss to know.

All admirers of that inspiring singer, Sidney Lanier-and we urge those who know him not, to become acquainted with his writings-will give an enthusiastic welcome to a new edition of his Hymns of the Marshes. The volume is admirably printed, and the photographs which it contains, taken from the marshes themselves, are a pleasant aid in the interpretation of the songs.

"The Toiler. And Other Poems. By William J. Fischer. Toronto: William Briggs. The Little City of Hope. By F. Marion Crawford. New York: The Macmillan Com

pany.

This new volume,* from the pen of Henry Van Dyke, is made up of sketches, descriptive and narrative, which endeavor to illustrate the pleasure and benefit to be derived from days spent out of doors, in touch with the joys that nature offers in wood and stream and mountain. The volume also includes some short stories, done in the easy, pleasant style of Dr. Van Dyke, which are wholesome and refreshing. The technical work on the volume and the illustrations are well done.

Daily attendance at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the subject of a valuable little pamphlet † which, in an interesting way, presents to the reader considerations on the mysteries of the Holy Mass, and the abundant graces which it offers as a means of our sanctification.

A small, handy edition of the New Testament ‡ just published should serve well to promote a more frequent reading of Holy Scripture among the faithful. Considering the small price of this volume, no one can have an excuse for not having a copy of the New Testament.

*Days Off. By Henry Van Dyke. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Daily Mass; or, the Mystic Treasures of the Holy Sacrifice. By Rev. J. McDonnell, S.J. Dublin: Irish Messenger Office.

The New Testament. New York: The C. Wildermann Company.

NOTICE.

The latest Encyclical of the Holy Father on "Modernism" is too extensive for publication in THE CATHOLIC WORLD. Desirous that it should be obtainable in handy form, we have issued a complete English translation in pamphlet, and will mail it to any address on the receipt of twenty-five cents, postage free. Address, THE