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Irish Jesuit Province The Last Supper and Calvary by Alfred Swaby; Vincent McNabb The Irish Monthly, Vol. 58, No. 686 (Aug., 1930), p. 424 Published by: Irish Jesuit Province Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20512834 . Accessed: 15/06/2014 04:37 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Irish Jesuit Province is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Irish Monthly. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 188.72.126.35 on Sun, 15 Jun 2014 04:37:10 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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The Last Supper and Calvary by Alfred Swaby; Vincent McNabbThe Irish Monthly, Vol. 58, No. 686 (Aug., 1930), p. 424Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20512834 .

Accessed: 15/06/2014 04:37

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424 TPHE IRISH MONTHLY

Some Irish readers will perhaps feel a little irritated with Mr. Berkeley for showing up in such clear light the dis organisation that hampered the volunteers throughout. But that would be to be angry with him for being an historian. The telegram of La Moriciere thirteen days before the out break of war complaining that one-third of the Irish have no muskets and two-thirds no accoutrements may not be pleasant reading but it is good history. The result of Mr. Berkeley's frankness is that the bravery of the Irish soldiers stands out in all the greater relief. In the annals of military history there can hardly be a more strange and gallant episode than the defente of Spoleto by Major O'Reilly. In itself the fight

was a mere skirmish. But who can deny the spirit of the Irish country gentleman who with six hundred men, a "heterogeneous string " (Mr. Berkeley's happy phrase) of Franco-Belgian marquises, raw Bavarian and Swiss peasant boys, invalided Austrian Carbineers, Italian policemen secretly in sympathy with the enemy, and with only a few old soldiers and Royal Irish Constabulary in his own forces who had never handled a musket, undertook to defend a medifeval Italian fortress against some two thousand trained troops with calvary and artillery.

The price of the book is unfortunately somewhat high, but it is excellently produced, and contains some interesting photographs.

The Last Supper and Calvary. By Alfred Swaby, O.P. Edited by Vincent McNabb, O.P. (Burns, Oates and

Washbourne. 5/- net.) According to Pere de la Taille, with whose theories on the

subject, Bishop MacDonald is in close agreement, " the Last Supper and the Cross are complementary. At the Last Supper was begun that sacrifice which was to be consum mated on the Cross." This treatise, published posthumously, is mainly concerned with the refutation of this doctrine. " At the same time, the aim of the writer is to provide mainly constructive rather than destructive criticism. His chief desire is to unfold the truth, as taught by tradition and summed up by Trent."

ItJis perhaps surprising that such a work should be written in English. It is not devotional, in the ordinary sense of the word and its main appeal will be to the theologieal student.

ISDITOR'S ADDRESS, RATHFARNHAM CASTLE, DUBLIN, to whom all books for review should be sent.

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