By the Rev. S. BARING-GOULD, M.A., Author of "The Origin and Development of Religious Belief," &c. The Work will be complete in Twelve Vols., Crown 8vo., handsomely bound in cloth, each containing one month of the Calendar, and will be issued in Quarterly Vols., price 7s. each, or to Yearly Subscribers of one guinea for the Four Vols. VOL. I., FOR JANUARY, 2nd Edition. II., III., FEBRUARY, Now Ready. MARCH, Will be issued in the course of NOTICES OF THE PRESS. "On the whole, we should say that Alban Butler aimed chiefly at edification, while the present author-not leaving this out of sight-aims likewise at information and entertainment, and if the ensuing volumes resemble the first, he will have given us a book to be very grateful for."-Guardian. "Mr. Baring-Gould's Lives of these blessed persons are models of easy, clear, and picturesque narrative, and is one that promises to be second in interest and importance to few that the Catholic revival has brought forth."-Church Times. "There is real life and colour in the Biographies, as well as what to many persons will be of some consequence, full reference to authorities, and full information as to those incidents in their history which have been represented in painting or sculpture, or which have led to the conventional symbols appropriated to them. It is a book with which every ecclesiastical library ought to be supplied.-Literary Churchman. "It is a book that should be in every Christian household."-The Banner. "The spirit in which it is written cannot be better described than in the author's own words. In his preface, he says, 'It would have been unseemly to have carried prejudice, impertinent to have obtruded sectarianism, into a work like this. I have been called to tread holy ground, and kneel in the midst of the great company of the blessed; and the only fitting attitude of the mind for such a place and such society, is reverence.' This intention has been fully carried out. The lives of Catholic Saints have been narrated simply and unaffectedly as Catholic authorities have recorded them, and in the phraseology commonly used by Catholics. Our Lady is always treated with respect as the Blessed Virgin,'our Blessed Lady,' 'the Virgin Mother of God,' the Queen of Heaven; and the names of Jesus and Mary' are linked together with loving familiarity."-Dublin Review. "The lives are given very fully, and the legends are beautifully told in language far more attractive than that of pains-taking, matter-of-fact Alban Butler."-The Tablet. "We must credit Mr. BARING-GOULD not only with good intentions, but also with an excellence of execution, which ought to command for his work a large sale among Catholics. The language is quaint without being crabbed, and its every sentence reads like an extract from some golden legend of early days, when as yet the sayings of the Holy Ones of God were as household words in the mouths of the Faithful."-The Weekly Register. "Mr. Gould is lighter, perhaps more popular; he is less severe in rejecting ancient Acts, and thus he gives us some beautiful stories of the Saints which Alban Butler would have omitted."-The Month. "It is a glorious collection, and the manner of telling the Legends is delightful."-Monthly Packet. "We hope to have the opportunity on some future occasion of speaking of Mr. Baring-Gould's work at greater length, *** He has every qualiti cation for the work which he has undertaken."-Spectator. JOHN HODGES, 47, Bedford Street, Strand, London. |