this was a required book for a history class I took, and I must say, it wasn't boring. The history of the accounts in this book is brief, yet informative. It was a great study guide for tests.

A reporter who witnessed Jerome Lejuene's testimony reported that she felt as if she'd been in the presence of one of the Apostles. Rarely have brilliance and humility been so perfectly matched. Lejuene, who discovered the cause of Down Syndrome, traveled on his own initiative and at his own expense from Paris to a small town in Maryland to testify in the Davis frozen embryo case. "Love is the opposite of chilly," he muses, and the proper place for the youngest human beings is in the womb, "not in the fridge." Laced with his gentle good humor, and packed with mind-boggling information, The Concentration Can is a fascinating read.

This book was a required textbook in one of my sport management major classes - it's the only one so far that I've bothered to keep. The information is timely and easy to reference.

This makes a great souvenir for those who have had the great fortune to dine at The Court of Two Sisters. Almost half of the book is history of the restaurant and the area, and the rest is devoted to house recipes-the bread pudding is out of this world! I just wish they had included more recipes. It also has several pictures of the restaurant.

If Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker are coming to dinner, cook for them from this cookbook. _The Decadent Cookbook_ has something to intrigue, fascinate, repel, and offend everyone; that and its dry, droll tone are its two biggest charms, but it has many, from literary selections to recipes that actually work. One note on the latter, though: the recipies are amusing but, because they are all historical and many of them are quite old (and therefore taken from sources that didn't trouble with measures or temperatures, or transcribed directly from cooks' dictation), they are sometimes less than precise. Many don't contain measurements, and/or have directions such as "grill furiously until scorched and crisp"; they do require a bit of creativity and experience on the part of the cook to come out well.

I could continue describing the decadent charms of this book, half literary compendium, half cookbook, and all outrageous, but instead I think I'll recommend that, inspired by an Ancient Egyptian menu and a description of a Papal feast, the curious cook try their hand at such Decadent recipes as Lady's Navels, Soles in Coffins, and Mock Hedgehog. If the cat interferes, promise him the fate of the Cat in Tomato Sauce.

Good information on the backcountry above the tahoe area....checked some places out myself

Although this book has only 28 pages it is an interesting book for kids about dolphins. The text is in large letter which makes it easier to read for children who want to read themselfs or grandmothers/grandfathers :) who might have to read it for them. Being a wildlife photographer myself I have to admit that the photos are very good and the quality of the print is of equal level. So even if you're not a kid any more and just like dolphins it's well worth the money. Of course this is not a comprehensive book on dolphins but it was never meant to be.

Carlyn Gold has a gift of making you see and feel things through the eyes of children. Nathan and Jessie are caught up in a struggle between their mother's and aunt's differing opinions about what is best for their beloved Gramps. You sense their helplessness and fear in realizing their lives may be changed forever when their aunt sends a psychologist to their home to do an evaluation on Gramps. But when Gramps finds a very special dragonfly, it changes all of their lives. I found this story to be true to life in showing the changes in the dynamics of the relationship between elderly parents and their adult children. I also found myself feeling like a child right along with Jessie and Nathan over the wonderment of the dragonfly. The only criticism I have is the ending seemed lacking. Otherwise, it is a terrific book!

415 pages, publ. 1956. A series of works with prefaces are translated with limited notes, mostly historical or giving the scripture references. Here are the contents:

Tertullian: De praescriptione haereticorum (with selections from Irenaeus, Adv. Haer, and Tertullian, De Pudicitia, as appendices); De idololatria.

Cyprian: De unitate; letter 33 (on the lapsed); letters 69 & 73 (on the baptismal controversy)

Ambrose: Letter 10 (on the council of Aquileia, AD. 381); letter 17 (on the altar of victory); letters 20 & 21 (on the struggle over the basilicas); letter 24 (Ambrose and Maximus); letters 40 & 41 (on the synagogue at Callinicum); letter 51 (on the massacre at Thessalonica); letter 57 (Ambrose & Eugenius); letter 63 (the episcopal election at Vercellae)

Jerome: Letters 14 (To Heliodorus), 15 (To Pope Damasus), 52 (To Nepotianus), 107 (To Laeta), 108 (To Eustochium) and 146 (To Evangelus).

This review will concentrate on the material by Tertullian.

Dr. Greenslade gives an excellent modern translation of the important text, De praescriptione, and indeed I bought the book for this alone, as it is the most modern English version of this work. The editor, in common with most others, rejects the CSEL text of Kroymann as too arbitary, and so based his translation on an eclectic text of his own selection. Occasionally one may quibble at some of the text choices made - in 40, 4, following Kroymann and the Corpus Cluniacense he omits the name of Mithras, presumably as a gloss, although it is present in the Agobardinus, and included by Rigalt and Oehler. It is unfortunate that the critical text of Refoule seems to have come to hand too late to be more than mentioned in the preface. But it is a good translation, and carries much of the force of Tertullian's work for the general reader, and the notes will inform but not stifle.

The selections added are interesting; De pudicitia lacks any English translation other than the elderly Ante-Nicene Fathers one, and an unpublished version by Gosta Claesson, abandoned in favour of his magnum opus, the Index Tertullianeus. As such, it is useful to have even such scraps as these.

The 1890 CSEL 20 text is used for De idololatria. This translation does not have the sparkle of the former; probably reflecting the less polished nature of the work. It is a useful work; but there is now a more modern version by J.H. Waszink etc which supercedes it.

The selections from other authors on other subjects did not spark my interest, and indeed I have been unable to find the time to read most of them. These suffer from the lack of any clear theme to the selections.

In summary, a useful volume of good clear modern translations.

The plot is intricate, and the mystery deepens until the last few pages of the text. The authors richly deserve the highest praise for their tireless efforts.