Literary Distractions Hales as far as that life

as far as that life can be known to man

de Saint Pierre vividly narrates both the visions and Bernadette's later life as a religious sister

tributes to Chesterton

The Heart of Culture is a succinct and substantive history of Western education and a profound witness to the necessity of maintaining tradition

Literary Distractions Hales as far as that lifeBy Ronald Knox The written word was but the score of a musical composition; there must be no sentence which was not worthy of being read aloud. Monsignor Ronald Knox wrote these words in homage to Robert Louis Stevenson. Well might he have written them of himself, for the principles he proposes were invariably brought to life in his own writing: his sermons, retreat conferences, detective stories, Scripture translationsand the seventeen essays in