Franciscan Studies

248BOOK REVIEWS Mon Premier Voyage au Canada 1881-1882, comprises a series of articles originally published in the Revue du Tiers Ordre of Montreal in 1885-1886, in which the Servant of God describes some of the most memorable incidents during his now historic first visit to Canada. Despite the author's supernatural modesty, the facts themselves indicate that this trip resulted in a profound and lasting revival of Franciscanism in French Canada. For instance, in the small village of Pointe du Lac, after a week's mission, about 170 of the parish total of 700 persons had entered the Third Order (p. 45) — and this was before the Rule was mitigated. Yet when recording such fruitful success, as well as several marvelous cures, Good Father Frederick simply comments : "A Domino factum est istud !" (p. 49). Both of these edifying and historically invaluable booklets include on the back covers a complete list of publications in French and English which are available at the office of the Vice Postulator in Three Rivers (890 rue St. Maurice). Rev. Romain Legaré, O.F.M., is preparing a scholarly biography of Good Father Frederick which will eventually be translated into English. Throughout 1947, Les Missions Franciscaines of Quebec is publishing a series of articles by Father Romain on Father Frederick's work in the Holy Land, and La Revue Franciscaine of Montreal and the Annales de Notre Dame du Cap are printing a series of articles by the reviewer on his work for the Shrine of Our Lady at the Cap de la Madeleine. Washington, D. C. Raphael Brown. The De Incarnatione of Athanasius. Part 2 : The Short Recension. By Robert Pierce Casey. London : Christophers, and Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1946. Pp. L + 86. $4.00. Under the general title of Studies and Documents published by Kirsopp Lake, Silva Lake and Carsten Hœg, the Pennsylvania University Press offers another volume, a study on the short recension of the De Incarnatione of St. Athanasius. The editor first discusses the four codices in which this recension is extant. This he follows with a discussion and comparison of the quotations from the short recension found in early writers. The editor's conclusion in regard to the relation of the short recension to the long one is that the long one is the original ; the short one is a literary revision with no clearly defined dogmatic tendency. Moreover, this short recension may have been made by Athanasius himself or by one of his immediate circle. Next the editor collates codex d (of Dochiariou 78) with the text of Archibald Robertson. Then he reproduces Robertson's Greek text page for page and line for line. It would have been more convenient for the reader to add the collation of codex d in the proper place at the bottom of each page in the text of Robertson. It would also be handy if a key to the abbreviations of the periodicals quoted had been given. To have the authentic and genuine text of any of the Fathers is a BOOK REVIEWS249 necessary condition for making a translation and for studies of the Fathers. So we welcome this new study and presentation of the text of St. Athanasius' classic De Incarnatione. Dominic Unger, O.F.M. Cap. Capuchin College, Washington, D.C. Our Lady of Sorrows. A Book of Mediations. By Rev. Hilary Morris, O.S.M. Westminster, Md. : The Newman Bookshop, 1946. Pp. 8VO-I-101. Someone has said that the poetry of suffering entered this world with Christianity. Be that as it may, the fact remains that the Cross is the very center of the history of mankind. Theologians may disagree as to the primary motive of the Word's Incarnation, but it is undeniable that in the present economy, the fall of Adam having been foreseen, Christ did come into this world as the "Man of Sorrows", as a suffering Savior. And so it is that the great tragedy of Calvary stands out so prominently among the other episodes of His earthly career. In order to better understand the full significance of the divine drama enacted on Calvary, men have always turned to the Mother of...