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is Assistant Professor of English at Benedictine College in Atchison

Literary Distractions Victor White Hosanna to the Son ofBy Ronald Knox The written word was but the score of a musical composition; there must be no sentence which was not worthy of being read aloud. Monsignor Ronald Knox wrote these words in homage to Robert Louis Stevenson. Well might he have written them of himself, for the principles he proposes were invariably brought to life in his own writing: his sermons, retreat conferences, detective stories, Scripture translationsand the seventeen essays in