Donahue urged the delegates to seek all things in Christ and to shun all in educational and social activity that would lead from Him. The music for the Mass was composed and sung by the Sisters of Holy Cross. Sunday afternoon the delegates were the guests of the South Bend Chamber of Commerce for a tour of the city followed by a reception at the University of Notre Dame. In the evening a motion picture was presented through the courtesy of Mr. Will Hays, President of the Motion Picture Corporation.

A Mass for the deceased Alumnæ of the Federation was celebrated in the College Chapel of the Holy Ghost by Monsignor Pace on Monday morning at which the Federation members received Holy Communion in a body. The convention meeting was notable for an address by Sister Mary de Paul Cogan, the co-founder of the I. F. C. A., and for the report of the officers.

At the Tuesday afternoon meeting there were two speakers of special interest, the Rev. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., who spoke of the materialistic trend of modern literature from the advent of Nietzsche to George J. Nathan, and Sister M. Eleanore, C.S.C., who told of the joys of books and of writing.

A NEW BISHOP OF SALT Lake. A NOTABLE gathering of American Catholics witnessed the consecration of the Right Rev. John Joseph

Mitty, D.D., Bishop of Salt Lake, by His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Wednesday morning, September 8th. It was, coincidentally, the thirty-fourth anniversary of Cardinal Hayes's ordination in the same edifice. There were in attendance the Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop of San Francisco; more than a score of bishops, hundreds of priests, numerous distinguished laymen, and a great throng of Bishop Mitty's fellow New Yorkers.

Bishop Mitty is one of the youngest priests ever elevated to the American hierarchy and by his consecration takes over a see which, territorially, is the largest in the country. His jurisdiction is three times as large as New York State and embraces twenty parishes, nine Catholic educational institutions, and the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City.

The newest member of the American hierarchy was born in Greenwich Village, New York City. He was educated in Catholic elementary schools, Manhattan College, and St. Joseph's Seminary at Dunwoodie. He is the first alumnus of Dunwoodie to be elevated to the episcopate, and for his motto he chose that of his seminary-"Mihi vivere Christus est" (To me to live is Christ).

The installation of Bishop Mitty as the third Bishop of Salt Lake will take place on October 9th. His Eminence Cardinal Hayes will go to Salt Lake to officiate at the ceremony.

tributed essays, verse, and book reviews to Catholic and secular publications.

MARGARET DAVIS (MRS. MARGARET I. JAFFÉ ("Shut In"), resides in Norfolk, Va., and was educated by private tutors and at Columbia University. She has been active in newspaper work for many years, and at present is on the staff of the Norfolk Virginia-Pilot. This is her first contribution to THE CATHOLIC World.

MARY DIXON THAYER ("Invictus"), whose latest book of poetry, The Child on His Knees, was reviewed in our July issue, is a contributor of stories, articles, and verse to many periodicals. In 1923 she was awarded the medal of the Browning Society for her poem "Prayer," and the following year received second prize from Contemporary Verse, for work appearing in its pages. Miss Thayer is also well known in the world of amateur sport, having recently won the women's Pennsylvania State Tennis championship.

J. C. WALSH ("The Old People"), who makes his first appearance in this issue, is the author of several books, the latest, Walsh, being the history of the Walsh family in Ireland from 1170 to 1690, a compilation of value to historical writers generally, as well as to the bearers of the name. Mr. Walsh is a past secretary of the Executive Committee of the National Catholic Welfare Council, and was the correspondent of America at the Paris Peace Conference. He resides in New York.

Letters of Louise Imogen Guiney. Edited by Grace Guiney. New York: Harper & Bros. 2 vols. $5.00.

There is always more than one reason for doing a thing—especially if we particularly want to do it and anyone can think of at least four good reasons for publishing personal correspondence: first, the human story it may tell; second, what may be called its "public" interest as a contemporary document; third, the personality it reveals; and fourth, a literary talent too charming to be kept wrapped in a napkin. These last two alone must be justification for the fat sheaf of Louise Imogen Guiney's letters, since the life story of this New England Catholic poet-librarian, postmistress, and later "Oxford anchoress" -was uneventful enough in the outer order. Her interest in public and popular events, too, was of the slightest; although the pungent paragraphs apropos of Queen Victoria (who seems to have been one of the poet's few antipathies) show how trenchant her words could be when turned upon such targets. But

as a rule she preferred to spend them, with prodigality and with a freshness forever innocent of banality, in a familiar running comment upon her own and her friends' daily lives. It is delicious to come upon her description of a meeting with Lionel Johnson-"a calm, Virgilian young person, small and silent, with a knowing sidelong smile, pleasant as a bookish fay's"; but literary comments are discoverable chiefly as "asides," perhaps because of the mistaken humility which made this devout lover and expert appraiser of literature imagine herself "little of a critic," and "lose confidence" the moment she strayed away from the "happy hunting ground" of her precious "seventeenth centurions."

"Letter writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity," as Miss Repplier observes in her admirable preface; and Miss Guiney's epistolary generosity stretched to incredible lengths, since in addition to the five hundred pages included in these volumes, there are hundreds of quite equal interest still treasured, but unpublished, by her friends.

The present series begins with letters from Elmhurst, in 1872, to her father-the "Big Brother" who was so enduringly high and happy an influence upon her life-and ends with notes written during a visit to Wales some three months before her death, in 1920.

The days of her early recognition in New England, when she was the venerable Dr. Holmes's "little golden guinea," are happily reconstructed in letters full of the names of Bliss Carman, Edmund Clarence Stedman, R. W. Gilder, Ralph Adams Cram, Alice Brown, and others; while the long British affiliations hover about Herbert Clark, Dr. Richard Garnett, the Meynells, Dora Sigerson, and Clement Shorter -to the last of whom, Miss Guiney made that admission which must forever sting the lovers of her work, “I am a rounded and perfect Failure, so far as getting on in this world is concerned . . . You don't know what it is to have to live on public praise; to have done your very best in composing and editing some sixteen books, and to draw from them in the lump, thanks to one unhallowed cause or another, not three guineas a year." There are no complaints, but there are candid confessions, through the letters, to Father Day, S.J., and to Father John Burke, C.S.P., then editing THE CATHOLIC WORLD, of years when "All my ifs are purely financial"; and there are still more personal letters which sicken the heart with their hints of the long fight against failing health and failing fortunes. But the last thing Louise Guiney ever wanted from the world was pity. She had given it her finest in her own way, for joy of the work, and with little. enough care whether the world

wanted it or not. And through it all she kept her spirit of gallantry and even of gracious humor, until the final freedom came.

One sees the scholarly poet in many moods through these pages, but with fewer inconsistencies than fall to most mortals. One sees her as nature lover, as an expert adviser upon puppies, as the most telling and tactful of controversialists (in certain letters to a clerical friend of "High" Episcopalian persuasion), as heroic "slogger" (in the word borrowed from her beloved Stevenson) at routine, and research, and domestic duties, as woman of intelligent and unfaltering faith, who prized "the air of the great Catholic past, and the touch of it, like deep moss under one's feet in a wood." Above all, one sees her as the most sympathetic and devoted of friends.

After all, it is to those who already know and love what Louise Imogen Guiney stood for that the unique and unself-conscious revelations of these letters will bring their most refreshing delight. But they cannot be followed too soon by a republication of her own selection from the poems, Happy Ending, and by some wise selection from the essays-both now most shamefully out of print! For if the growing generations of readers are not to know the silver spell of her art, how shall they be expected to seek out or prize this intimate but casual chatting of the artist?

K. B.

Assisi of Saint Francis and Other Essays of Italy. By Joseph F. Wickham. Boston: The Stratford Co. $2.00.

Few countries make so abiding an appeal to men of all sorts and conditions as Italy. Its witchery is