McMaster advises that Billuart's Commentaties on St. Thomas are worse than worthless because Billuart was badly tinged with the heresey of Gallicanism, lately condemned by the Vatican Council and by the Pope. Pilluart's work, like the text of St. Thomas, is written in Latin, and in the Latin of the schools of the middle ages, and though one may be a fair classical latin scholar, he may find St. Thomas or any of his commentators written in a language unknown to him. A background of Aristotelian logic as handled by the Schoolmen is needed to understand St. Thomas. McMaster cites an attempt to translate St. Thomas into the French, which failed dismally. McMaster wishes to help, and suggests that it would be better to read St. Thomas in the original. McMaster will extend all the aid he can. He remarks that he is leaving on the morrow for his first recreation in a long time, compelled to it by his ill health. :: I-1-n A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.