“_Those who take a pleasure in reading a beautiful account of a
beautiful character would do well to procure the Life of ‘Henri
Perreyve.’... We would especially recommend the book for the perusal
of English priests, who may learn many a holy lesson from the devoted
spirit in which the subject of the memoir gave himself up to the duties
of his sacred office, and to this cultivation of the graces with which
he was endowed._”――CHURCH TIMES.
“_It is easy to see that Henri Perreyve, Professor of Moral Theology
at the Sorbonne, was a Roman Catholic priest of no ordinary type.
With comparatively little of what Protestants call superstition, with
great courage and sincerity, with a nature singularly guileless and
noble, his priestly vocation, although pursued, according to his
biographer, with unbridled zeal, did not stifle his human sympathies
and aspirations. He could not believe that his faith compelled him
‘to renounce sense and reason,’ or that a priest was not free to speak,
act, and think like other men. Indeed, the Abbé Gratry makes a kind of
apology for his friend’s free-speaking in this respect, and endeavours
to explain it. Perreyve was the beloved disciple of Lacordaire,
who left him all his manuscripts, notes, and papers, and he himself
attained the position of a great pulpit orator._”――PALL MALL GAZETTE.
=THE LAST DAYS OF PÈRE GRATRY.= By PERE ADOLPHE PERRAUD, of the
Oratory, and Professor of La Sorbonne. Translated by special
permission. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.
=S. FRANCIS DE SALES, BISHOP AND PRINCE OF GENEVA.= By the Author
of “A Dominican Artist,” “Life of Madame Louise de France,”
&c., &c. Crown 8vo. 9s.
“_It is written with the delicacy, freshness, and absence of all
affectation which characterised the former works by the same hand,
and which render these books so very much more pleasant reading than
are religious biographies in general. The character of S. Francis de
Sales, Bishop of Geneva, is a charming one; a more simple, pure, and
pious life it would be difficult to conceive. His unaffected humility,
his freedom from dogmatism in an age when dogma was placed above
religion, his freedom from bigotry in an age of persecution, were
alike admirable._”――STANDARD.
“_The author of ‘A Dominican Artist,’ in writing this new life of
the wise and loving Bishop and Prince of Geneva, has aimed less at
historical or ecclesiastical investigation than at a vivid and natural
representation of the inner mind and life of the subject of his
biography, as it can be traced in his own writings and in those of his
most intimate and affectionate friends. The book is written with the
grave and quiet grace which characterises the productions of its author,
and cannot fail to please those readers who can sympathise with all
forms of goodness and devotion to noble purpose._”――WESTMINSTER REVIEW.
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