Pensées sur la Science, la Guerre et sur des Sujets très Variés

Abstract

M. LECAT is a great reader with catholic tastes. For twenty years he has been in the habit of copying out all the passages that have struck him in the reading which occupies his leisure. He has now, at the instance of a friend, collected and arranged them in a volume of 480 pages of double columns. There are about 11,000 extracts from some 1500 authors grouped under subject headings. The first 1200 refer to various branches of science and its most distinguished exponents. The remainder, dealing with every possible subject, grave and gay, of topical or perennial interest, come under titles arranged alphabetically; we proceed in due order from Abstraction, Abus, . . . Allemagne (the longest section), to Voltaire, Voyage, Yeux, Zola. The quotations, whatever the language of their origin, are usually, but not always, translated into French. The whole is furnished with two elaborate indexes and the dignity of an appendix.

Pensées sur la Science, la Guerre et sur des Sujets très Variés.

By Dr. Maurice Lecat. Pp. vii + 478. (Bruxelles: Maurice Lamertin, 1919.)