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God's Fairy Tales by E. M. DinnisThe Irish Monthly, Vol. 45, No. 524 (Feb., 1917), p. 132Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20504734 .

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132 THE IRISH MONTHLY.

Church government in England after the downfall of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, brought about by the Tudor per secutions. In this respect the book is onewwhichwill appeal chiefly to the student of Canon Law; but in no sense does Father Pollen aim at writing a technical treatise. His book is of intense interest, as giving the reader an insight into the real character of the Catholics of that period and of the difficulties under which they laboured.

"It mnakes one's heart beat again," he writes in the

Introduction, " to see so small and weak a body fighting

for years, first against a tyranny so overwhelming as that of the Tudors, and then against despots, less vigorous in deed than their predecessors, but still incomparably nmore powerful than the defenceless minority, which they strove so violently to extirpate." These noble words cannot fail to awaken an echo of sympathy in the hearts of his fellow

Catholics in this country. Father Pollen is universally re cognised as one of the greatest living authorities on this period of English history, and in publishing the results of these researches he has done a service alike to history and to the Church.

Up and Doing. By Irish Priests. Dublin: Gill. ls.

This is a collection of fifteen short stories, not ambitious indeed in theme, but well and pleasantly told, dealing with a variety of subjects interesting and instructive, ranging from Drink to Domestic Economy, from the Planets to the Prodigal Son. The stories are truly national in tone, and the moral, if here and there a trifle too laboured, is gener ally well brought out. The book would rather gain than lose, by the omission of a slightly American flavour which creeps in here and there.

God's Fairy Tales. By E. M. Dinnis. Sands. Bs 6d. net.

These stories of semi-miraculous happenings are well constructed, gracefully written, interesting, and correct in Catholic spirit and doctrine. We think, however, that the exceptional character of the events should have been more clearly brought out, as the sub-title, " Stories of the Supernatural in Every-Day Life," is a little misleading.

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