‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1942) / Review and Correspondence Volume

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284 Dublin Opinion February, 1942 "THE CAPUCHIN ANNUAL, 1942," can claim to be the finest Annual ever produced. We shall set down simply, in higgledy-piggledy wise, the things which have made the most vivid impression on our memory. "St. Francis of Assisi," the reproduction in colour of Richard King's design for a stained-glass window. The great photograph of the doorway in Cormac's chapel, Cashel. We have a personal reason for remembering this doorway. We fancy many of the photographs in this Annual will awaken jealously-guarded memories here and overseas. The facsimile of Patrick Pearse's last letter to his mother, surely one of the most moving letters ever written. Eamonn Ceannt's last letter. Sean MacDermott's last letter. Then he moved by the splendour of simplicity. Thomas McGreevy's poem "Aodh Ruadh O'Domhnaill," which, in spite of its queer structure, has a great appeal to us. Catriona Mac Leod's article on "Our Lady of Dublin," the history of the strange old wooden statue which is over Our Lady's altar in Whitefriars Street. Father F. M. Browne's fifty wonderfully good photographs of key places all over Ireland, almost a pictorial history of Ireland. M. J. Labern's poem "To Mrs. Maurice Walsh (who knows better)". The section on "Easter Week" with old photographs and reproductions of old documents bringing back the time so vividly. We liked particularly Fr. Aloysius's quietly-written Diary and Dr. Jim Ryan's restrained and factual account of the fighting in the G.P.O. Terence MacSwiney's 1916 Diary. Rev. Dr. Patrick Browne's poem "In Memoriam" which so many of us found so moving when it was published YOU WON'T HAVE LUMBAGO There is a simple prescription for lumbago. Doctors have been recommending it for years — Kruschen Salts. As a preventive, take a pinch every morning. This should keep lumbago at bay. But lumbago is due to a blood condition. Some people are stabilized to it. If you do get a predisposed to back, take half or a full teaspoonful of Kruschen. In a day or so the pain will go. Then keep on with the little daily dose and you should be free of lumbago for months. Perhaps for good. There is no secret about Kruschen. It isn't a patent medicine. The analysis is on the bottle. It isn't a drug. It cleanses the blood. It is a combination of various salts. These are the liver and kidneys active and your blood clean. Wash the poisons out of your system. The pain goes. You'll Feel all the Better for a Pinch of KRUSCHEN You can take it in tea or hot water. From all Chemists price 1/9d. bottle. Thousands of School of Accountancy Students have risen from the ranks to SUCCESSFUL CAREERS as Directors, Managers, Accountants, Company Secretaries, Cost Accountants, Works Managers, Office Managers, Auditors, Company Registrars, Heads of Departments, Stores Controllers, Cashiers, Local Government Officers—Municipal & County Council Treasurers & Appointments, Secretaries, Clerks —and in other Executive Appointments at Principal SALARIES FROM £300…