"The Shrine of the Roses" has been delayed by visitors from Chicago. She read Robert Louis Stevenson's defense of Father Joseph Damien De Veuster and liked it, but like John Boyle O'Reilly, she thinks he said too little. Mannix disapproves of William O'Brien's delineation of some priests in his books. This is his wedding day; he should have married an Irish girl. :: X-3-k A.L.S. 4pp. 8vo.