Written toward the end of the American Civil War, this book examines the political turmoil of a nation at war with itself. Grounding his principles in the great Graeco-Roman tradition of classical Republicanism, Brownson critiques both the Southern States’ suicidal bid for independence and the Federal Government’s authoritarian overreach. He concludes that a Catholic America, [...]

Tolerance very seldom means letting a man live in peace. It almost always means trying to make him something he’s not. And more often than not, it means a rich man trying to make a poor man something less than a man. Go and dine with a temperance millionaire and you won’t find he’s abolished [...]

In 1921, an English lecturer set out for a year-long tour of the United States. At every turn, he is reminded of the heritage shared by the two countries. He is also keenly aware of the differences which distinguish the two nations and allow the possibility of genuine friendship between the two nations. Written for [...]

In a world of tolerance, the things that separate men are not their answers to important questions, but the import they give those questions. When two Scotsmen set out to kill one another, feuding over the reputation of one woman, they find that the true quarrel lies not between one and the other, but between [...]

Misunderstood jokes are dangerous. Taking anything seriously can be dangerous. Taking a run-down London suburb seriously can be extremely dangerous: It might just turn into an empire. When the farcical King Auberon inspires a preposterous love in the heart of a small boy for his ridiculous neighborhood, the youth grows up to have the last [...]

“A good book ought to be like Eve; it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it.” Helen McGill often wonders if there’s not a lot of bunkum in higher education. As an author’s spinster sister, she has her own list of complaints to level [...]

Exiled from his house by a faithless wife, Golden Walter sets sail in search of the refuge and unknown adventures of youthful enterprise. When the two houses feud, however, and his father is slain by the kin of the treacherous woman, Walter sets out to return home, only to be blown off course and fall [...]

As King Peter’s sons grew into the prime of their lives, they chafed within their simple kingdom’s secure compass. The king consented to their wearying requests for the freedom to sojourn amongst the peoples of the earth, but bade his youngest son Ralph to stay with him and enjoy the wondrous modesty of the Upmeads. [...]

Faced with the choice between his people’s salvation and his own survival, one man chooses a glorious death over shameful life. When the Roman Legions invade the idyllic Mark, home to the many houses of the Gothic Kindreds, a people’s freedom is threatened by a looming imperialism forgetful of hearth and home. But, the men [...]

Mr. Vane’s library is haunted by its former librarian. Few believed the old tale, and none could have guessed the Dantesque journey on which the Vergilian phantom would lead his patron’s great-grandson. Mr. Vane passes through a mirrored door to find a world in which pure innocence and pure corruption. Yet, Mr. Vane proves himself [...]

Purchase the Kindle eBook of Plato & Aristotle This volume is a compilation of two separately published books. The author does not attempt an exhaustive account of all Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy—an undertaking which would fill more tomes than Plato and Aristotle themselves produced. Rather, he has striven to distill in a broad outline form [...]

“As Curdie grew, he grew at this time faster in body than in mind—with the usual consequence, that he was getting rather stupid—one of the chief signs of which was that he believed less and less in things he had never seen.” This volume is a compilation of two books by George Macdonald: The Princess [...]

“The following pages contain in an abbreviated form sermons preached in Rome in the Church of St. Silvestro-in-Capite, during the year of 1911. Some of them were also preached in the Carmelite Church in Kensington in 1910; and all of them, with others, in the Church of our Lady of Lourdes, New York, in 1912. [...]

The Roots of the Mountains is the story of a people: a people fighting to save their kindred and preserve their heritage. Faced with the looming threat of oppressive slavery to which his kin have already succumbed, one young man takes up the banner of his house and leads his people to conquer their foe. [...]

Read the Introduction by Greville MacDonald This book, C. S. Lewis said, baptized his imagination: “In the depth of my disgraces, in the then invincible ignorance of my intellect, all this was given me without asking, even without consent. That night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized; the rest of me, not unnaturally, [...]

Read the Introduction by Evelyn Waugh “It is true that there is a sense in which Catholicism can be taught, and ordinary Anglicanism cannot. For Anglicanism, generally speaking, is not a system of religion nor a body of truth, but a feeling, a tradition, its roots intertwined with associations of national history and of family [...]

Read the Introduction by Percival Pollard “If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself—a rare type in our time, I admit, but still one occasionally to be met with—you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. [...]