From the UPS man

The ISI edition of Orestes Brownson's The American Republic arrived today.  My initial impressions: good solid typesetting with a stylish but unobtrusive italic face (I would have known these faces 15 years ago); a beautiful buff and blue cover with a dark red spine; a readable and useful introduction by Peter Lawler that's nearly half the length of Brownson's work.

Every time I see the UPS man I think of Arthur Clarke's line upon receipt of Stephen Wolfram's massive A New Kind of Science at his Sri Lankan lair: "another ruptured postman staggers away from my front door."

Patristic homilies for Sundays and feasts

Vide. Gregory the Great, Jerome, Bede, Ambrose, Augustine, Leo, Gregory Nazianzus, Hilary, Chrysostom, Chrysologus.

Augustine's letter to Proba

The 1950s CUA translation is online, along with the nearly-complete collection of Augustine's letters.

• Letter 130, to Proba
• Letters Vol 2 (83-130)
• Letters Vol 3 (131-164)
• Letters Vol 4 (204-270)

Kirk's "Randolph of Roanoke"

Online! Nearly every day I'm astounded at what can be found at the Internet Archive. Today's astonishment was occasioned by the discovery of Russell Kirk's Randolph of Roanoke: A Study in Conservative Thought - intact, complete and free in a variety of formats.

I loves me the internet.

A few books

• Our Lady in the liturgy: considerations on certain feasts of the Mother of God - 1912, Michael Barrett
• The confessions of venerable Father Augustine Baker, O.S.B - 1922, Justin McCann, O.S.B., ed.
• Holy wisdom: or, directions for the prayer of contemplation - Dom Augustine Baker, O.S.B.
• Benedictine monachism: studies in Benedictine life and rule - 1919, Dom Cuthbert Butler, O.S.B.
• The mother of Christ: or, The Blessed Virgin Mary in Catholic tradition, theology, and devotion - 1922, O. R. Vassall-Phillips, C.SS.R
• The Rule of St Benedict: A Commentary - 1921, Dom Paul Delatte, O.S.B., trans. Dom Justin McCann, O.S.B.
• The Liturgy of the Roman Missal - 1920, Dom Leduc O.S.B. and Dom Baudot O.S.B.

CUA Fathers of the Church - online!

At least 33 volumes are available at the Internet Archive. It's a modern translation of the Fathers of the Church produced by the Catholic University of America in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, a complete listing of which may be found here.