Mary of Ágreda is an outstanding figure in Spanish history of the seventeenth century and her writings have had a strong, though often unrecognized, influence on the trend of Catholic spirituality for nearly three hundred years. It is not surprising that Faber, with his genius for foreign importation, should have drawn freely on this Spanish mystic; it is more unexpected to meet with Manning's praise. In one of his sermons on the Sacred Heart he says: ‘The Ven. Mary of Ágreda, in a profuse and minute exposition, has taught us the mystery of the deified humanity and the actions and passion of our Blessed Lord. No human genius could have conceived such teaching.’ Such unstinted praise coming from this source may well arouse the curiosity of those to whom La Mίstica Ciudad de Dios is as yet unknown. Those who have not access to the original Spanish will be grateful to Fiscar Marison for his pleasing and accurate rendering into the English tongue. The American publishers are to be congratulated on their well-finished and serviceable reprint.