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First lines: "A young Trappist monk explains what contemplation really is and how it enriches life." Citation: Enterprise Brockton, Mass (29 November 1949).

First lines: "In these beautiful meditations the author shares the blessings which have come to him in the peace"... Citation: America (18 February 1950).

First lines: "The author shares the blessings which have come to him in the peace and seclusion of the monastery." Citation: leader Manchester, NH (14 March 1950).

First lines: "Bound in a strong, thickly woven cloth, this book is truly garbed like a monk. Its healthy, rustic"... Citation: Journal of Religion 29.3 (July 1949): 241-242. Emile Cailliet.

First lines: "The title of the prolific Father Merton's latest book suggests one of his earlier books, "Seeds of"... Citation: News Sentinel Fort Wayne, In (2 January 1965). Mary Ditlinger Quinn. 2 copies.

First lines: "In the latest of his many books, Thomas Merton turns the rolling thunder of his majestic prose to"... Citation: Register Des Moines, IA (10 January 1965).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the complete bohemian who became a Trappist monk at 26, has carried on an astringent"... Citation: Time Magazine 85 (5 February 1965): 116. 2 copies, one on original wax paper.

First lines: "If a reviewer were not awed by the scholarly Fr. Thomas Merton, he might say that this is a book"... Citation: Best Sellers 24 (15 January 1965): 405-406. Eugene A. Dooley.

First lines: "From his monastery in Gethsemane, Ky., Thomas Merton sees the world today from a somewhat unusual"... Citation: Chicago Tribune (7 March 1965). Genevieve Casey.

First lines: "Father Merton's many writings have given him a high reputation as a religious leader and social"... Citation: Library Journal 89 (1 June 1965): 2350. John M. Christ.

First lines: "I think it a curious commentary on us that the magnificent and challenging works of Thomas Merton"... Citation: Los Angeles Times Book Review (19 February 1965): 6. Robert Kirsch.

First lines: "Ponder on God's patience, good Christians, says Merton, on the immense patience with which His power"... Citation: Way [San Francisco] 21 (May 1965): 17-22. Cornelia Jessey.

Reviews of Seeking Paradise: The Spirit of the Shakers.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, in the true spirit of monastic and contemplative"... Citation: Monos 17.1 (Jan/Feb 2004): 8.

First lines: "This book is a collection of photographs"... Citation: Catholic Library World 74.3 (March 2004).

First lines: "'The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair,' wrote Thomas Merton, 'is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on"... Citation: Quaker Theology: A Progressive Journal and Forum for Discussion .

First lines: "The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the"... Citation: Publishers Weekly (1 September 2003).

First lines: "Thomas Merton is among the few Christian seekers, as opposed to collectors, artisans and historians,"... Citation: Merton Seasonal 29:1 (Spring 2004): 26-28 [online].

First lines: "Tim Matthews writes: 'One time womanizer, Young Communist"... Citation: Catholic Family [online]. [Accessed 30 August, 2013].

First lines: "Thomas Merton: Selected Essays belongs in any Christian spirituality collection; particularly those already familiar with Merton's writings, as well as those who want a scholarly collection"... Citation: California Bookwatch 8.9 (September 2013.

First lines: "There are many Thomas Mertons: the Trappist monk who eloquently described contemplative"... Citation: Grace and Truth 31.1 (April 2014): 64-65.

First lines: "During his lifetime (1915-1968) Merton published around 250"... Citation: American Catholic Studies 126.2 (2015): 82-84.

First lines: "Thomas Merton was first a monk and second a man of letters - lots"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 49.2 (2014): 264-66.

First lines: "If you have not yet read this extraordinary and inspiring book that has brought peace and"... Citation: dust jacket (?).

First lines: "'The Seven Storey Mountain' (Harcourt. $3) is the autobiography of Thomas Merton. Of English and"... Citation: Michigan Catholic (18 January 1948).

First lines: "What are Chicago high school fellows and girls reading these days? Are they solely comic book"... Citation: Tribune Chicago, IL (17 July 1948). Sheila John Daly.

First lines: "The poet Thomas Merton now tells the story of his life in "The Seven Storey Mountain," a symbol"... Citation: New York Herald-Tribune (17 September 1948).

First lines: "How did it ever happen that, when the dregs of the world had collected in Western Europe, when Goth"... Citation: New York Times (3 October 1948).

First lines: "The autobiography of Thomas Merton, a brilliant young American and famous poet, is rather an intense"... Citation: Observer [Raleigh NC] (10 October 1948). Frank O'Brien.

First lines: "It is an autobiography of a young man now a monk in the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict"... Citation: News Cleveland, OH (20 October 1948). Incomplete copy.

First lines: "If there must come "art from the pews," and there must, we hope that it is not for the reasons"... Citation: America (6 November 1948). Fred Digby.

First lines: "As Dante climbed the Mount of Purgatory, at each stage he was freed from the burden of one of the"... Citation: Book of the Month (November 1940). Basil Davenport.

First lines: "This contribution to the history of religious experience should interest many readers because of its"... Citation: News Detroit, MI (14 November 1948).

First lines: "Poet Thomas Merton, now a Trappist monk, lent poetic excitement to his autobiographical account of a"... Citation: Time Magazine (20 December 1948).

First lines: "Thirty-three years ago, to an English artist-father and an American Quaker mother, was born Thomas"... Citation: Guidepost Cincinnati, OH (December 1948).

First lines: "Dante's seven-circled mountain of Purgatory suggested the title for Thomas Merton's autobiography." Citation: San Francisco CA (12 December 1948). J.V.

First lines: "Last week's column was, not inappropriately, devoted in past to a backward look, with a measure of"...

First lines: "Thomas Merton, poet, Catholic convert and Trappist monk, at 33 has written his autobiography, a"... Citation: Chicago Sun [Chicago, IL] (28 December 1948). James O. supple.

First lines: "Out of the centuries-laden silence of a Trappist monastery has come a new book as modern as a"... Citation: Post Denver Colo (2 January 1949). George M'Williams.

First lines: "This book, which has earned the praises of Evelyn Waugh, Clare Booth Luce, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen"... Citation: Courant Hartford Conn (2 January 1949). Daniel E. Ahearne.

First lines: "Readers of this page may remember in this column, a long and enthusiastic review of The Seven Storey"... Citation: News Sentinel Knoxville, TN (6 February 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the young Trappist monk and poet whose autobiography, 'The Seven Storey Mountain,'"... Citation: New York Times (3 February 1949).

First lines: "The autobiography of a young man who led a full and worldly life, and then, at the age of"... Citation: Reporter Berlin NH (17 February 1949).

First lines: "A young man of the world became a Trappist monk in a Kentucky monastery, Seven years later, at the"... Citation: Jrl Transcript Franklin, NH (17 March 1949).

First lines: "Strange though it may seem to the average modern, this autobiography of a twentieth century"... Citation: Catholic Register Sacramento, CA (27 March 1949).

First lines: "Can we believe the best seller lists? A free for all literary slugfest is raging in New York over"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee, WI (27 March 1949).

First lines: "For weeks Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain has headed the list of non-fiction best sellers." Citation: News-Sentinel Knoxville, TN (1 May 1949). Lucy Templeton.

First lines: "There was no outstanding literary or publishing success in 1949, nothing remotely approaching "Gone"... Citation: News Week (12 December 1949).

First lines: "both by Rev. Fr. Thomas Merton, are recommended to those who may wish to understand how one man"... Citation: Press Cleveland OH (6 December 1949).

First lines: "'Seven Storey Mountain' by Thomas Merton is an autobiography of Father M. Louis, as he is known in"... Citation: Hillsboro Argus [Hillsboro, Ore] (4 May 1950).

First lines: "The autobiography of Thomas Merton, a mundane, young intellectual who after fully immersing himself"... Citation: Phylon 10.2 (2nd Qtr 1949): 174-175. V.L. Jones.

First lines: "Harcourt is pulling out all the stops for this 50th-anniversary edition of Merton's spiritual"... Citation: Library Journal 123.14 (1 September 1998): 224. Michael Rogers.

First lines: "Fifty years ago this Sunday, a book appeared that told of a young man who had embraced and rejected"... Citation: Wall Street Journal (2 October 1998): W14. Elizabeth Powers.

First lines: "In the winter of 1935 a young Columbia University student names Tom Merton was attending Communist"... Citation: Books on Trial 7 (October-November 1948): 133, 144. Helene Magaret.

First lines: "All publishers make mistakes sometimes. It seems as though the Sheldon Press (whose recent"... Citation: Church Times [London] (26 December 1975): 6. A.M. Allchin.

First lines: "George Woodcock and the late Thomas Merton are both of them copious and fluent writers and their"... Citation: New York Review of Books 26 (27 September 1979): 25-26. J.M. Cameron.

First lines: "In two perceptive, quietly stirring books published this week, an old and a young American gave"... Citation: Time Magazine 52.25 (11 October 1948): 87-89.

First lines: "This is the autobiography of Thomas Merton, a convert to Catholicism, who is now a Trappist priest"... Citation: Best Sellers 12 (1 June 1952): 52.

First lines: "Today we are beginning to gather our converts from Communism and so-called Liberalism." Citation: Sign 28 (November 1948): 59.

First lines: "'The Seven Storey Mountain,' one of the top ten best sellers in the non fiction field for the past several weeks,"... Citation: Columbia Spectator 71.86 (February 24, 1949): 6.

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Reviews of The Sign of Jonas.

First lines: "Jacques Maritain speaks of two attitudes of spirit present in man by reason of the law inscribed on"... Citation: Renascence 6 (Autumn 1953): 44-52. Sister M. Therese, SDS.

First lines: "Everybody who read Seven Storey Mountain will want to read this book. It covers six years of Thomas"... Citation: Press Cleveland, OH (2 December 1952).

First lines: "The author's first book since "The Seven Storey Mountain" to offer real competition to that great"... Citation: Retail Bookseller New York City (October 1952).

First lines: "'The Sign of Jonas,' by Thomas Merton (Harcourt, Brace, Feb. 5), is a worthy successor to "The Seven"... Citation: Retail Bookseller New York City (February 1953).

First lines: "The author's first book since "The Seven Storey Mountain" to offer real competition to that great"... Citation: Retail Bookseller New York City (February 1953).

First lines: "Here is Thomas Merton, who renounced the world in 1941 and has since addressed a number of books to"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune (6 February 1953). John K. Hutchens.

First lines: "America, the land of activism, was startled in 1948 by the appearance of "The Seven Storey Mountain"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune (8 February 1953). Chad Walsh.

First lines: "Taking up his life where The Seven Storey Mountain left off, Thomas Merton has now published a"... Citation: News Savannah, GA (8 February 1953).

First lines: "Not only Catholics have bought this Trappist monk's two popular books Seven Storey Mountain and The"... Citation: Herald Miami Florida (8 February 1953).

First lines: "To be an author in a Trappist monastery is, says Thomas Merton, "to be like a duck in a chicken coop"... Citation: Star Washington DC (8 Feb 1953). M. McG.

First lines: "Our third contributor to the literary world is Thomas Merton. His kind of writing is vastly"... Citation: Mercury Medford, Mass (9 February 1953).

First lines: "The personal journal of Father Louis (Thomas Merton) of Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky provides a"... Citation: News Detroit, MI (15 February 1959). Josef Mossman.

First lines: "Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his"... Citation: Observer Charlotte NC (15 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 60a, 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 15a.

First lines: "This book is copyrighted by the Abbey of Our Lady of the Gethsemani, located near Louisville, KY." Citation: Journal Atlanta, GA (15 February 1953). Sam F. Lucchese.

First lines: "Thomas Merton is the hard-living young man who turned his back on the world to become a Trappist"... Citation: Courier Journal [Louisville, KY] (15 February 1953). William Habich.

First lines: "Those who read, and were fascinated by Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain" must, like this"... Citation: Gazette Montreal Canada (21 February 1953). D.R. Weston.

First lines: "Close followers of Thomas Merton's prolific writings will find in "The Sign of Jonas" a change in"... Citation: Dispatch Columbus OH (22 February 1953). Mary McGarey.

First lines: "Off and on for the past two or three weeks I have been reading this journal of Thomas Merton. A"... Citation: Leader Post Regina, Sask. Canada (28 February 1953). Kathleen Graham.

First lines: "A little more about Thomas Merton from whose "The Sign of Jonas" excerpts appear today in "This Week"... Citation: New York Herald Tribune (8 March 1953).

First lines: "'Yesterday we were out in the middle bottom, spreading manure over the gray mud of the cornfields. I"... Citation: Book of the Month New York (March 1953). Bernadine Kielt.

First lines: "Being the private journal of a Trappist monk, this is a most unusual book. Written where silence is"... Citation: Daily Province Vancouver BC (28 March 1953). J.W.W.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, the author of the best seller "the Seven Story Mountain," has again arisen from the"... Citation: Catholic Home Messenger Canfield OH (August 1953). D.J.D.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, Father Louis, a Trappist monk, famed author of The Seven Storey Mountain, brings us"... Citation: Personalist (Autumn 1953). R.T.F.

First lines: "The first half of the book seems to me really to deserve that sticky adjective 'exalting.' As a"... Citation: Commonweal (4 December 1953).

First lines: "Being the private journal of a Trappist monk, this is a most unusual book. Written where silence is"... Citation: Evening Citizen Ottawa Canada (4 April 1953).

First lines: "There are a lost of good Merton books around, too, but I like this one best. Joan of Arc, by Charles"... Citation: Jubilee (February 1961). Oona Sullivan.

First lines: "When The Seven Storey Mountain appeared, it answered many questions about modern society and the"... Citation: America 88 (21 February 1953): 569-570. Spanish translation published in Digesto Catolico in June 1953 - "El Significado de Thomas Me.

Reviews of The Monastic Journey.

First lines: "Thomas Merton died on December 10, 1968. His influence, however, continues to grow. The Monastic"... Citation: Reporter Toronto (1977): 47-48. Michael W. Higgins.

First lines: "A few months ago I was a quest "expert" on a radio-talk show in Washington, D.C. The topic was"... Citation: Commonweal 119.19 (6 November 1992): 42. Lawrence S. Cunningham.

First lines: "Thomas Merton does not lack for a wide audience. His books are being re-issued and are being sold"... Citation: St. Luke's Journal of Theology 22 (September 1978): 326-327. Robert Giannini.

First lines: "While writings about Thomas Merton appear almost monthly, it is something of an event when a new"... Citation: Horizons 6 (Spring 1979): 150. Mark Quinn.

First lines: "Was Thomas Merton the last great 'traditional' monk of the Western world? It is essential, I think,"... Citation: Church World [Portland ME] (24 November 1977): 8. Thomas P. McDonnell.

First lines: "A prophet is a person of neither vague ideas nor ready-made solutions. He or she is a person who, by"... Citation: Sojourners 9.5 (May 1980): 28-30. Conrad C. Hoover.

First lines: "Students of Merton and monasticism will be grateful to"... Citation: Religious Studies Review (October 1978): 300. John F. Teahan.

First lines: "I am a recent convert to the monastic way of life, having professed in 1991." Citation: Merton Seasonal 17:4 (Fall 1992): 24-25.

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First lines: "I would hesitate to recommend this"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 18.2 (Advent 2011): 46-47.