from his heirs by Alexander VII. Among them are 56 Greek codices, including a very important tenth-century manuscript of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. There is also an Eleventh Century Horace, several manuscripts of Cicero, and Ovid and texts of some medieval chronicles. Besides this there are some illuminated manuscripts and a good deal of unprinted historical material in the form of diaries, letters, reports of nuncios, belonging for the most part to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is stated that the present Pontiff, when he was librarian of the Vatican, proposed to Benedict XV at the end of 1918 that the Chigi Library, which, as a part of the Piazza Colonna, had just been sold by Prince Ludovico Chigi to the Government, should be acquired by the Vatican. The collection has now been presented to the Holy Father as a gift with certain specific conditions. The Holy See appears to have pledged itself. (1) The Holy See to shorten the period during which the Vatican Library remains closed in the summer, and to extend the hours during which it is open on ordinary days; (2) to permit, without the need of special authorization, research in the Archives of the Holy See down to 1846, the year of the accession of Pius IX; (3) even in cases where special authorization is needed, to give greater facilities than at present to responsible students. These conditions will be hailed with genuine delight by students of all nations engaged in research work at Rome. Honoring a Priest-Explorer. On January 19 the Spirit of Liberty Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled at Spanish Fork a memorial tablet to the Nauiscan Padre Escalante, who with Father Dominiquez, Captain Bernardo de Miera of Pacheo and nine soldiers left Santa Fé on July 29, 1776 with the hope of reaching the California Coast. The party went northward into Colorado, followed the western line across the San Juan, Dolores, Grand and Colorado Rivers, turned westward to Utah and South past Sevier Lake. This was just three quarters of a century before the hardy pioneers of Utah first pitched camps where Salt Lake City now stands. The Memorial is a granite porphyry boulder weighing six and a half tons, near whose top is inserted a bronze tablet with the inscription: ESCALANTE. A Spanish priest, the first white man to look upon this valley. Sept. 23, 1776. Placed to perpetuate the memory of that event by Spirit of Liberty Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, and City of Spanish Fork, 1922. Tho' the Pathfinders Die, the Paths Remain Open The site of the boulder is as near as can possibly be ascertained to the spot on which Padre Escalante and his companion made camp on the night of September 23, 1776, after they had just come over the mountains to the south and cast their first look upon Utah Lake. BOOKS RECEIVED BEMIS, SAMUEL FLAGG, Jay's Treaty-A Study in Commerce and Diplomacy. New York: Macmillan Company, 1923. Pp. xvi+367. BOURDEAUX, HENRY, La Nouvelle Croisade Des Enfants. Edited by Henry Ward Church. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1923. Pp. xv+216. BRISCOE, W. M., and DICKMAN, ADOLPHE, Française Pratique. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1923. Pp. vii+296. BROWN, EVERETT SOMERVILLE, Ph.D., Plumer's Memorandum of the United States Senate-1802-1807. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. Pp. ix+643. BRUNE, G. Les Enfants De Marcel. Edited by Clifford S. Parker. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1923. Pp. xii+310. CALDER, JOHN, Capital's Duty to the Wage-Earner. New York: Longmans, Green & Company, 1923. Pp. xii+320. CARON IVANHOE, L'abbé, La Colonisation de la Province de Quebec, 17601791. Quebec: L'Action Sociale Limitée. Pp. xx+338 A. E. The Interpreters. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. Pp: viii+175. HERBIGNY. MICHEL d'. L'Unité dans le Christ. Rome: Pontificio Instituto Orientale, 1923. Pp. 32. HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY and GUERNSEY, IRVIN S., The United States. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1923. Pp. 602. HUTCHESON, ROBT. J. and CHRISTIE, FRANCIS A., Does Evolution Destroy Religion? Does Evolution Destroy the Divinity of Man? Past Experience with Unitarian Organization. Meadville, Pa.: Meadville Theological Seminary, 1923. Pp. 24. LATHROP, ROSE HAWTHORNE, Memories of Hawthorne.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. Pp. xiv+480. MASTERMAN, C. F. G., England After War. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1923. Pp. xvii+311. MERRILL, A. MARION, Editor, The House of the Seven Gables-Hawthorne. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1923. Pp. xix+378. MURPHY, DAVID A., The 18th Amendment. New York: 1923. Pp. 108. PLATZ, HERMANN, Geistige Kampfe im modernen Frankreich. Kosel & Pustet, Kempten: 1922. Pp. xix+591. PLUM, HENRY G., and BENJAMIN, GILBERT G., Modern and Contemporary Civilization. Philadelphia: Lippincott & Co., 1922. Pp. 400. POLLEN, REV. JOHN HUNGERFORD, S.J., Saint Ignatius of Loyola. New York: P. J. Kenedy & Sons, 1922. Pp. xx+167. ROBINSON, LUTHER EMERSON, M.A., Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Letters. SANDERS, E. K., Jacques Benigne Bossuet. New York: The Macmillan SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR M., New Viewpoints in American History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Pp. xi+299. SHAW, WARREN CHOATE, The Art of Debate. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1923. Pp. x+461. SINGER, ISIDOR, Ph.D., Social Justice. New York: 1923. Pp. 59. Ursuline of Alaska, An., Life of the Rev. Mother Amadeus of the Heart New of Jesus. New York: The Paulist Press, 1923. Pp. xiii+233. WEBB, SIDNEY & BEATRICE, The Decay of Capitalist Civilization. York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1923. Pp. xviii+236. WHITING, MARY BRADFORD, Dante-The Man and the Poet. New York: Appleton and Company, 1923. Pp. vi-+190. RED CROSS LINE Including all essential expenses for 12 Day Northern Cruise $120.00 and up Healthful, interesting and desirable vacation cruise. 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Orders may be sent 467 473 Chronicle Book Reviews Minor Notices (For a complete list of Reviews see next page) Noteworthy Articles in Current Periodicals Irish Franciscans in Czecho-Slovakia; The New Library at Lou- 495 Entered as second-class matter Nov. 17, 1922, at the post-office at Gettysburg, Pa., Copyright, 1923, By the Catholic University of America |
