The publication of the ‘Life’ of Father Bede Jarrett by Kenneth Wykeham-George, O.P., and Gervase Mathew, OP. (Blackfriars Publications; 12s. 6d.) is an event of more than usual significance for this review, of which Fr Bede was the founder and for a time the Editor. Readers of Blackfriars will scarcely need the recommendations of reviewers to draw their attention to the biography of the Dominican whose inspiration was so important in the early and difficult days of this journal’s career. We are fortunate in being able to publish the tributes of two of his friends, Sir Ernest Barker and Fr C. C. Martindale, S.J., occasioned by the appearance of his biography and a reminder, eighteen years after his death, of the extent of his true achievement. sir ernest barker writes:

Many memories came back to my mind as I read Father Wykeham-George’s and Father Mathew’s Life of Bede Jarrett. I was carried back nearly fifty years, to the year 1904. (or was it 1905?) when he became my pupil and read with me for Honours in the School of Modern History. The way it happened was this. I had had for some time a connection with the Benedictine house of residence (then called Hunter-Blair’s Hall), and I had taught some of the Benedictines—not least Father Paul Nevill, now and for many years past the Headmaster of Ampleforth College. The Benedictines—as has been their wont for nearly 1,500 years—were hospitable; and their Hall in Oxford was the hospitium of members of other Orders. One of the ‘guests’, or rather members, of Hunter-Blair’s Hall was Father Bede Jarrett; and that was how he became my pupil, two years after Father Paul Nevill. He read with me down to the year 1907, when he took his Schools and was placed high in the First Class. (I was one of the examiners that year, and I was proud of the sustained excellence of his work.) It was a very good year, both among the men and the women students: Lord Eustace Percy was another man who was placed in the first class, and among the women was Professor Ada Levett, as she afterwards became, whom I had also taught for a little time in her student days.