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Last week the first volume (19 books) of Knox's Old Testament was published in the U.S. (Sheed & Ward; $7). Volume II will be out next year (his New Testament was published in 1944). Some Catholic authorities have long regretted that the job of re-translating the Vulgate* had not been given to Cardinal Newman. In Monsignor Knox they found another master of scholarship and prose...
...most Protestants (and many Roman Catholics), the Mass is a formal, mysterious ritual which typifies a formal, mysterious church. Last week Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, famed British scholar and detective-story writer, published a cheerful, witty, informal book called The Mass in Slow Motion (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). Designed to explain the mysterious Latin mumble-jumble of the Mass, the book combines reverence with readability...
VIPERS' TANGLE (288 pp.) - François Mauriac, translated by Warre B. Wells -Sheed & Ward...
...Therese is the second volume in the series; the first was Woman of the Pharisees (TIME, Oct. 21, 1946). Vipers' Tangle, now reissued by Sheed & Ward, will later be included by Holt as part of its uniform edition...
Even among Roman Catholics, who normally begin regular confession at about the age of seven, there is often misapprehension about what kind of sins should be confessed. In a new book, Pardon & Peace (Sheed & Ward; $2.50), Father Alfred Wilson, a British Passionist, deals lucidly with this problem...