Abstract

The Royal Octavo format of this massive anthology of essays, culled from the representative writings of some thirty-seven Catholic thinkers, symbolise the richness and variety of content which amply guarantee the editor’s disarming apologia for his selection: ‘Suffice it that the authentic note of the freedom that is bora of faith is everywhere heard in these pages’. The reviewer stipulates at once that the only complaint he can fairly make is a pedantic wail at the absence of any index to facilitate a periodic dip into the comparative treatment of a theme or person in this embarras des richesses—only sustained study can do justice to this select presentation of Catholics in thought during the past thirty years.