tions of every kind: exposition of doctrine controversy, history, biography, devotion, moral and social papers, besides tales and verse.
"No one is too poor to be able to afford the half-penny or the penny which is the price of most of these brochures and leaflets; whilst there are books and larger pamphlets for those who look for something more extended, and the bound volumes of the series form a small library of the handiest and the most useful kind. For readers of greater education and leisure there are materials in abundance which it is unnecessary to specify at this moment. A catalogue of any of our Catholic publishers will suggest to every one how many subjects there are on which it would be useful to be well informed, and how much there is to be known in the grand and wide kingdom of the holy Catholic faith. No one can love Our Lord who does not know about Him, and no one can be truly loyal to the Church who does not take the trouble to study her.
"If instruction is so deeply important, devotion and piety are not less so. With most of us prayer is very short and very slight. There is one means which will both make us more regular in our daily prayers and deepen our earnestness in that sacred duty. This is spiritual reading.
"No one should be without a book about Our Lord, His sacred Heart, His blessed
