30 DECEMBER 1922, Page 26

POPE PIUS XI. (Daniel O'Connor.)

This slim volume, well printed, copiously illustrated and delightfully bound in blue and white, contains a biographical sketch of Pope Pius XI. by His Eminence Cardinal Gasquet, and a translation of an article written by the Pope on his ascent of Monte Rosa in 1889. The book appeared first in the form of an article in the Review of Reviews. His Holiness's account of the climb provides very good reading, and in Cardinal Gasquet's sketch we have an interesting portrait of a learned, vigorous and remarkable personality.