"Dion and the Sibyls" went to the wrong person for notice. Miss Meany believes the fashion nowadays for Catholic authors is to separate what was united in the Incarnation and show Christ as a historical personage. She disagrees with this idea and will have nothing to do with it as she believes in edifying Catholic stories. In the story Dion and the Sibyls she notices that the most eloquent passage in it is a glorification of gladiators who are silent under the agony of a violent death. She has an invincible attraction toward gladiator stories but writers should not choose a Catholic book for his thrilling laudation. Another objection of Miss Meany's is that the author delights in the scenes of fiendish brutality. She has learned that priests can write of pagan vices and also of the purest virtues, while a layman who writes vile stories is drawn again and again to them. She can give no priase to this except on the minor point of literary merit. She has to go back many years to recall her first knowledge of Notre Dame, and now that it has been destroyed she feels that even greater good will come of its reconstruction. It is not so bad that the fire happened now after Notre Dame is well established than if it had happened in its early years of struggle. Miss Meany thanks Hudson for the remuneration and wishes she could inform him that he does not have to pay her for her contributions. She is very interested in the shrine of St. Anne at Aurey and is wondering if Hudson has any account of it so that she could translate it for the Ave Maria. :: X-2-e A.L.S. 4pp. royal 8 vo.