3 MAY 1902, Page 25

Instructions in Preaching, Catechising, and Clerical Life. Trans- lated by

the Rev. Patrick Boyle. (Gill and Son, Dublin. 2s. 6d.) —The authors from whom Father Boyle draws these "instruc- tions" are St. Francis Borgia, St Francis de Sales, and St. Vincent de Paul. He gives also a letter of the present Pope, dated 1894, and treatises of St. Augustine and St. Jerome. The last will be to many readers the most interesting of all, though it has little to do with the main subject of the book. It deals with the clerical life, and that under conditions very different from what now prevail ; but it is eminently characteristic of St. Jerome's very curious temperament. What strong common-sense he had, and yet how narrow he could be !