‘Bonaventura’ / Review and Correspondence Volume

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NEW QUARTERLY REVIEW EDITED BY REV. FR. SENAN, O.M.CAP.: PRIDE OF PLACE TO IRISH Rev. Father Senan, O.M.Cap., Church Street, Dublin, Editor of the "Father Mathew Record," has contributed something new and big to periodical journalism in "Bonaventura," a new quarterly review, the first Volume of which has just made its appearance. The quarterly, which runs into 255 pages, contains an amazing amount of material covering every field of literature and life. It discloses a great deal of pioneering work. The periodical should make a wide appeal. Pride of place is given to Irish. The first article is in Irish, entitled "Soisceulta agus doisceulta," by "Cloc Labhrais," and there are almost a dozen contributions in Irish. One of the first to receive a copy was Most Rev. Sylvester P. Mulligan, O.M.Cap., Archbishop of Delhi and Simla, who is now on holiday in Dublin, and who has contributed an article to the volume on "The Spanish Capuchins," dealing with the war in Spain. His Grace gives an account of the persecutions in Catalonia, the Basque Province, Castille, Valencia, and Andalusia, and his article contains many little-known facts. The Archbishop, as Definitor-General of the Capuchin Order in Rome until his recent elevation to the Episcopate, was in a position to get all the information available about the Order in Spain. 19th CENTURY IRELAND. The suggestion that there should be a new history of the 19th Century in Ireland, from the standpoint of the great Catholic revival that took place at that time, is made by Rev. Patrick Rogers, M.A., D.Litt., in an article, "A Neglected Aspect of Nineteenth Century Ireland." Father Rogers says that a survey should be made of the progress effected by the Church in those spheres peculiarly her own, such as Catholic education, the missions and retreats which characterised the later stages of the revival, Catholic social action, the rise and growth of religious congregations, Ireland's missionary enterprise, the progress of ecclesiastical studies and ecclesiastical architecture. Rev. Father James, O.M.Cap., in his usual brilliant style, writes on "The Significance of Saint Bonaventure." John Desmond Sheridan is entertaining in "And Let Who Will Be Clever." The Book Supplement is in the very capable hands of Francis MacManus. Thomas Barrington writes on "Telescope and Microscope"; Rev. Father Paschal, O.M.Cap., on "The Marxian Mode"; Rev. Father Felix, O.M.Cap., on "St. Thomas Aquinas, as an Exegete of Holy Scripture," and Lancelot Lawton on "Soviet Russia and Spain." Mr. J. A. Power writes on his journalistic reminiscences, and Miss Gertrude Gaffney on the life of the newspaperman or woman, with all its ups-and-downs. The following names are sufficient guarantee of the excellence of the Irish contributions:—"An Seabhac," Shan O Cuiv, Barra O Caochlaich, Roibeard O Farachain, An t-Athair Micheal, O.M.Cap.; Diarmuid O Duibhne, An t-Athair Cainneach, O.M.Cap.; Sean O Cuirrin, An t-Athair Casain, O.M.Cap.; Aindrias O Mui…