A Roman Catholic newsblog OSV Newsweekly has posted a notice reviewing a recent book by Robert Royal. This is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Traditions in the Twentieth Century. According to the reviewer (Russell Shaw), Royal’s book:
…is an attempt — a remarkably successful one — to introduce (or reintroduce) Catholics to some recent high points of their own tradition. Distinguished figures like Maritain, Guardini, Chesterton, Belloc, Greene, Mauriac, Bernanos, and others receive close and illuminating attention. Royal’s leanings can be seen in the fact that he considers Evelyn Waugh perhaps the greatest English novelist of the past century and Waugh’s World War II trilogy “Sword of Honor” as the author’s finest work. Since these are judgments I share, I naturally applaud them.
The Amazon.com listing for the book does not provide any views of the text nor do the reviews and reader comments posted on Amazon mention any discussion of Waugh’s work, so it is difficult to judge the extent of the book’s consideration of Waugh as compared to the other writers mentioned.
