Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed ...

The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts ...

The Enigmas of Innocent Smith How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable ...

The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue ...

THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of ...

Of the visions of her childhood Sister Emmerich tells us: “When in my sixth year I reflected on the first article of the Apostles' Creed, ...

I say the Catholic "conscience" of history—I say "conscience"—that is, an intimate knowledge through identity: the intuition of a thing which is one with the ...

IT IS FOR BOTH Christians and non-Christians.  It’s designed to show Christians a new dimension of Jesus: Jesus the philosopher.  And it’s designed to show ...

Christianity has been long enough in the world to justify us in dealing with it as a fact in the world's history. Its genius and ...

The view taken of a University in these Discourses is the following:—That it is a place of teaching universal knowledge. This implies that its object ...

"No autobiography in the English language has been more read; to the nineteenth century it bears a relation not less characteristic than Boswell's 'Johnson' to ...

Imagine this. You’re driving home from work next Monday after a long day. You turn on your radio and you hear a brief report about ...

Because the Master of Catholic Truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but also to instruct beginners (according to the Apostle: As Unto Little ...

The main purpose of this Introduction is to give an account of a movement which changed the whole face of the Irish Church, and to ...

This edition of the Dialogue of Comfort has been transcribed from the 1557 version as it appears in Everyman's Library. The Everyman edition is heartily ...

The author of the original work asked me personally to translate his book into English. I have done so; but the genius of the English ...

The Inexhaustibility of Wisdom Literature I have been a philosopher for all of my adult life, and the three most profound books of philosophy that ...

I then gathered for myself staves, and stud-shafts, and cross-beams, and helves for each of the tools that I could work with; and bow-timbers and ...

PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied. The evening before he had been at one of Nero’s feasts, which was prolonged till ...

This is a handbook designed to help you learn about the role of the Church Fathers, the world in which they lived, who they were, ...

Jesus Christ is coming back, and his doing so is one of the dogmas of our faith. It is one of the more important dogmas ...

SAINT TERESA began to write the Interior Castle on June 2, 1577, Trinity Sunday, and completed it on the eve of St. Andrew, November 29, ...