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The English Dominican Province (1221-1921). (Catholic Truth Society. 3s. 8d.

net.)—A number of Dominican friars and one sister have collaborated in this volume of essays, describing the work of the Friars Preachers in the seven centuries since they landed in England, headed by Gilbert Ash. Father Bede Jarrett, dealing with " The Foundation," rightly empha- sizes the importance of the Dominican movement in its early days, in making the pulpit popular and in organizing the University of Oxford. He tries to put St. Dominic, the perse- cutor of the Albigenses, in a favourable light. The story is brought down to the present day and includes chapters on the nuns of the " Second Order " and on the " Third Order " or Tertiaries, who are lay folk and do not take vows.