Monsignor Knox has put us under a new debt by publishing these notes which have already appeared in the pages of The Tablet. Those who read them there will remember how they are marked by that wide erudition and careful thought which we expect of him. As for those who have not seen them, perhaps it is as well to repeat the warning of the author's preface, namely, that some purchasers of the book may be in for a disappointment: ‘the over-worked parish priest who must needs compose his Sunday sermon in a few minutes snatched from the confessional ... a harassed curate, desperately turning over the pages of this book at ten minutes to eleven in the hope of extracting a pulpit message from it’. These notes are not meant for them; they, he says, are quite well catered for by the numerous devotional commentaries that already exist. Here he wishes to concentrate on the well-known difficulties of the Sunday epistles and gospels. He dreams optimistically of a Catholic family arguing hotly across the luncheon table about the meaning of the epistle and gospel they have heard from the pulpit that morning, and eventually deciding to ‘see what Knox has to say about it’.