Letters of John Q Adams

Nine letters to his son on the Bible, collected & published shortly after his death: Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings. And here's a collection of works by and about John Adams (JQ Adams' father) at live.com/archive.org.

Hat tip: TSO.

A Catholic miscellany

Some Google Books I'd pick up if I found them in a used book store:

• The Conversion of Europe, Charles Henry Robinson
• The New Raccolta: Or, Collection of Prayers and Good Works, 1903
• Three Catholic reformers of the fifteenth century, Mary Helen A. Allies, 1878
• St. Vincent Ferrer, his life, spiritual teaching, and practical devotion, André Pradel, 1875
• Virtues and Spiritual Doctrine of St. Vincent de Paul by Michel Ulysse Maynard, Louise de Marillac, 1877
• Albert the great, of the Order of friar-preachers: his life and scholastic labours, Joachim Sighart, 1876
• Sacred and Legendary Art by Anna Jameson, 1895
• The immaculate conception of the Mother of God, an exposition by William Bernard Ullathorne, 1855

The ghost stories of Montague Rhodes James

I'd never heard of M R James, but apparently he's well-known for his ghost stories and his catalogs of old university library holdings and whatnot. At Google Books.

Advent homilies of St Thomas Aquinas

An 1873 London edition of the Advent homilies of St Thomas Aquinas at Google Books:

Ninety-nine homilies ... upon the Epistles and Gospels for forty-nine ... By Thomas Aquinas

Various etexts

• the works of the recently-beatified Antonio Rosmini, founder of the Institute of Charity which has a foundation here in the diocese of Peoria
• a collection of 12th-century homilies in Old English (one of my periodic monomanias)
• Meditations for every Wednesday and Friday in Lent on a prayer of S. Ephraem, translated from Russian; watch out for the old s->f typography!
• the Blicking Homilies of the Tenth Century (Old English again)
• The Homilies of S. Thomas Aquinas Upon the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays of the Christian Year, To Which Are Appended the Festival Homilies

Document dump

I have plans for Bernard's sermons on the Missus Est; here's what else I turned up.

• Writings of St. Louis Marie de Montfort
• St Bernard's Advent and Christmas sermons (including the sermons on the "Missus Est"); also see Marco Binetti's St Bernard etexts from the Patrologia Latina (PL 182-185)
• James Cotter Morison's biography of St Bernard
• the same from Don Mabillon, volume 1 and volume 2.
• Dalgairns' life of St Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercians
• Legends of the Monastic Orders as Represented in the Fine Arts

The Via Vitae of St Benedict

Here's something in the "pious reflections" line I turned up at Google Books: The Via Vitae of St. Benedict: The Holy Rule Arranged for Mental Prayer, Bernard Hayes, 1908 Benziger Brothers

Opera omnia, St Bernard of Clairvaux

Not quite omnia - just volume two of his stuff in Migne's Patrologia Latina.

Update: I'd forgotten about Marco Binneti's collection of the works of St Bernard of Clairvaux. It seems to be copied from the Chadwyck Patrologia (correct me if I'm wrong).

Why is my online bookbag so danged heavy?

Another haul from Google Books, from a search for the hymns of St Hilary of Poitiers:

• The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns, Samuel Willoughby Duffield, 1889, Funk & Wagnalls
• St. Hilary of Poitiers and St. Martin of Tours By John Gibson Cazenove, 1883, E. & J. B. Young & Co.
• Sacred Latin Poetry: Chiefly Lyrical, Selected and Arranged for Use. With Notes and Introduction, Richard Chenevix Trench, 1874, Macmillan and Co.
• Latin Hymns: With English Notes edited by Francis Andrew March, 1874, Harper & Brothers
• Latin Hymns, compiled by William Augustus Merrill, 1904 B.H. Sanborn
• Hymni Ecclesiæ, edited by John Henry Newman, 1865
• The Seven Great Hymns of the Mediaeval Church, Charles C. Nott, 1902, E. S. Gorham
• Literature and Poetry, Philip Schaff, 1890, C. Scribner's sons
• Mediæval Hymns and Sequences, 3rd ed., John Mason Neale, 1867, J. Masters
• Latin Hymns in English Verse: With Short Biographical Sketches of Their Authors, James Heartt Van Buren, Henry Parks Wright, 1904, Old Corner Bookstore
• St. Basil's Hymnal (a Catholic hymnal & prayerbook), Basilian Fathers, 1891, St. Michael's College (Toronto, Ont.)
• Anglican Hymnology, James King, 1885, Hatchards

Mary Foreshadowed

Ah, Google Books! Mary Foreshadowed; or, Considerations on the Types and Figures of Our Blessed Lady in the Old Testament. Rev. F. Thaddeus, O.S.F.

Lives of the English Martyrs

Via Google Books: Lives of the English Martyrs Declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII. in 1886 and 1895:

• volume 1 of 2
• volume 2 of 2

The Fathers on the mysteries of the Rosary

When titles were titles: The Book of the Holy Rosary: A Popular Doctrinal Exposition of its Fifteen Mysteries, Mainly Conveyed in Select Extracts From the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. With an Explanation of Their Corresponding Types in the Old Testament. A Preservative Against Unbelief. Rev. Henry Formby, of the Third Order of St Dominic.

New books for my library

My Google Books library, that is.

• Gregory the Great, Rev. J. Barmby, 1892; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
• Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought, volume 1, Frederick Holmes Dudden, 1905 Longmans, Green
• The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages, 3rd edition, Henry Osborn Taylor, 1911 The Macmillan Company
• A History of Latin Literature, Leonhard Schmitz, 1877, William Collins, Sons, & Company
• The Dark Ages, William Paton Ker, 1904, C. Scribner's sons
• Fifty Spiritual Homilies of St. Macarius the Egyptian, translated by Arthur James Mason, 1921, Macmillan
• Aelfric: A New Study of His Life and Writings By Caroline Louisa White, 1898 Lamson, Wolffe and Company
• The Complete Works of Venerable Bede: In the Original Latin, John Allen Giles, 1843, Whittaker
  • volume 1 (check out the initial capital letters!)
  • volume 2
  • volume 5
  • volume 6
  • volume 7
  • volume 8
  • volume 10
  • volume 11
• The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church (this is a starting-point to track down the many volumes of this series for a future blog post)
• The London Charterhouse: Its Monks and Its Martyrs, with a Short Account of the English Carthusians After the Dissolution, Dom Lawrence Hendriks, 1889, K. Paul, Trench & Co.

My Google Books library

Webpage, rss feed.

Savonarola on Psalm 51

You never know what you'll turn up at Google Books. Here's a translation of Girolamo Savonarola's extended meditation on Psalm 51, Miserere mei, Deus, written during his imprisonment and torture. What do the Dominicans make of Savonarola nowadays?

I knew a priest at St Matthew's in Champaign IL back in the 90s who was working on an English translation of Savonarola's works, but I don't know what became of the project.

Gregory's Moralia in Job

part of the 1850s English edition edition at Google Books:

• Volume 2 (parts 3 and 4: books 11-22)
• Volume 3, Part 1 (part 5 and books 28 and 29)
• Volume 3, Part 2 (books 30-35)

How to find volumes of Migne

Vide: search for "Migne" with "in hoc tomo XCIII" or whatever...

Combine that with this handy table of contents for the Patrologia Latina to get the volume you need. You're on your own with the decimal -> roman conversion.