In these pages may be found at last what has been so long a desideratum amongst us, an adequate selection of characteristic passages from those wonderful works on the spiritual life which have made Father Faber so well known and so much loved as a master in Israel. His writings fall naturally into three categories: those he published before his conversion to the Church, Those the published during his life as a priest and a great director of souls, and those he left unfinished at his death. From the nature of the case, the scope of this volume; and, even in the second series, the minor productions of his pen, save for a single passage of a page or two, seemed of less value than usual, it need only be added that, in every case, the text of the definitive edition of father Faber's Works has been quoted, and that a full Index will be found at the end of the book.