Clerical Colloquies: Essays and Dialogues on Subjects Sacerdotal (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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A thoroughly satisfactory work. Priests in search of a really good book on priestly life and duties, full of sound advice conveyed in an at tractive form, should lose no time in procuring a copy of this publication.

Unlike the former work, the present volume contains only two essays that are reprints. The Priest a Gentleman and The Priest and the Press have appeared in recent issues of the Ecclesiastical Review, and are reproduced with the gracious permission of that periodical's rev erend editor. The author's purpose in those two chapters, as in all the others, has been to furnish the ordinary worka'day cleric with some spiritual reading material that is practical and helpful, without being dull, prosy, heavy, or ultra-ascetic.

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When a performer on the public or private stage, having sung his song, delivered his monologue, or played his solo on piano or violin, makes his bow to his audience and retires behind the scenes, he is naturally interested in the quantity and quality of the plaudits that greet his effort. His wish being father to his thought, it sometimes happens that he mistakes a brief round of perfunctory applause for a genuine recall, and forthwith responds with an unsolicited encore. In much the same way an author may misinterpret the generous praise lavished on his first work as a demand on the part of his readers for the publication of a second one; and I am possibly presumptuous in calling this book a sort of encore more or less justified by the critical handclappings which greeted a volume of similar scope published in 1914. Yet the assurances received from scores of ecclesiastical dignitaries, that the volume in question is really worth while and calculated to do not a little good, may well excuse one's ambition to make another venture in the same field, especially as these assurances have been corroborated by the Catholic press in reviews, of which the following extracts - the first from America, the second from the London Tablet - are typical: "...The kind of book of which you say at once that no one can afford to be without it; certainly no priest or clerical student. A nice combination of humor and common sense and the wisdom of experience."

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.