Sister Mary of St. Philip, 1825-1901. By a Sister of
Notre Dame. (Longmans. 18s. net.)—Frances Mary Leacher, who took the veil in 1853 at the Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame, Namur, was entrusted by this educational order with the task of establishing a training college for Roman Catholic school- mistresses in England. She began her work at Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, in 18.56, and lived to see the college grow from humble beginnings into a very large institution. Her biographer does full justice to her labours. Sister Mary insisted that the teacher, like the priest, must have a vocation. She once said to her students : " Remember there are more important things than money. We have not given up our lives to the work of making you teachers, merely that you may gain good salaries and make a name for yourselves in the world of Education. Catholic teachers must never forget that their children have souls, and that they must answer to God for the teaching and example they give them." The words apply to all teachers, not merely to Roman Catholics.
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