Posthumous Works

reading they do will not be fruitless; we also share in advance with them the satisfaction they will feel from it. We join our wishes to those of this charitable and sublime writer, who expresses himself thus at the end of one of his most widely circulated works, (L'HOMME DE DESIR The Man of Desire).

"It is with a sweet consolation
that I will see my brothers gather
these weak fruits of the desires of
a simple man who loved them.
May the virtue of their hearts,
may the piety of the ages, be the
funeral hymn that will be forever
sung over my grave!
I will hear it in the sleep
of peace; I will return all
the homage for it to my God."

As for any response to the criticisms often repeated by ignorance or levity against the works of Mr. St. Martin, we will content ourselves