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Heavenly Discs Sir: . . . We read with interest your March 9 review of Monsignor Ronald Knox's The Hidden Stream, and were quite amused by the quotation from the book: "All the identity discs in heaven are marked R.C. . . ." Jesus said a good deal about heaven, pointing out, in fact, that it is "within you." Monsignor Knox may be very surprised one fine day, after he leaves this world, to see "publicans and harlots" trooping on into heaven ahead of him. MR. & MRS. FRANCIS M. GARTH Newton Centre, Mass...
...hope Father Knox won't mind or be disturbed at finding a few non-R.C.s among the Communion of Saints. SHIRLEY HUME Boston...
...admirers of the scholarly Monsignor Knox One is grieved, however, at the tone of [that] statement . . . (THE REV.) EDWARD H. COOK St. John's Episcopal Church Essex, Conn...
...drawbacks of advancing years," writes Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, in his latest book, The Hidden Stream, "that you never feel quite sure to what extent the coming generation has abandoned the idols of your youth." Monsignor Knox, 65, might reassure himself by looking at his own popularity. A shy but witty man with an archly pure sense of scholarship, Roman Catholic Knox, in his tastes and in the clarity of his thinking harks back to the rigorous England of his youth. Yet a modern public which by & large can no longer digest the simplest of his Latin quotations still queues...
...Hidden Stream (Sheed & Ward: $3) is a sharp change of pace from Knox's best-known literary work-a good roomy, English translation of the Bible (which took him nine years to complete-TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). It consists of selections culled from the conferences which he has given through the last dozen years to students at Oxford. Although he left the Catholic chaplaincy there in 1939 after 13 years, he has gone back regularly to lecture successive generations of students. Ranging in their subjects from "What Is Religion?" to "The Christian Notion of Marriage," the religious essays...