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...translated into English: The Woman Who was Poor (Sheed & Ward, 1939, $2.50); Letters to His Fiancée (Sheed & Ward...
...translation of the Psalms is being published in the U.S. next week. Modern readers will miss the drums and tramplings of the King James version-but the simple, matter-of-fact English of Britain's witty, whodunit-writing Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (The Psalms, Sheed & Ward, $2) gives some of David's songs a sharp new applicability. Excerpt (Psalm...
Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 56, of Oxford, England, is a melancholy-looking wit who likes to do two things: walk and write. He writes about everything from morals to murders. His latest book, The New Testament in English (Sheed & Ward; $3), a translation from St. Jerome's 4th-Century Latin Vulgate, is for English-speaking Roman Catholics the first fresh translation of the New Testament from the Latin since the standard Douay version was published at Reims...
...Catholic Evidence Guild was founded in London in 1918. Its famed British leaders were Frank J. Sheed, Catholic publisher, and his wife, Author Maisie Ward (Gilbert Keith Chesterton, TIME, Oct. 11). First meetings were held in London's catholic Hyde Park, where they continued daily until World War II began. Britain's 500 Guild speakers still average over 100 meetings a week...
...Chesterton chose to keep his own head is the theme of Maisie Ward's intimate biography. Biographer Ward (wife and business partner of Publisher Francis J. Sheed) is, like Chesterton, a Roman Catholic, and writes as one. Her book is fat with Chestertonian facts. It is also intelligent, somewhat adulatory, exhaustive (668 pages...