| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | Merton's Jonas | Jacques Maritain speaks of two attitudes of spirit present in man by reason of the law inscribed on | Lentfoehr, Therese, SDS |
Renascence 6 (Autumn 1953): 44-52. Sister M. Therese, SDS
| 1953 |
| 02 | Thomas Merton: The Sign of Jonas | Before The Seven Storey Mountain was published, Thomas Merton had begun to keep a journal. The Sign | |
Book blurb from dust jacket
| no-year |
| 03a | | The Sign of Jonas, the journal of Thomas Merton, author of "Storey Mountain" will be published by | |
News Charleston SC (14 September 1952).
| 1952 |
| 03b | Spiritual Journey | "The Sign of Jonas," a new book by Thomas Merton, will be published by Harcourt, Brace in September | |
New York Herald Times (22 May 1952).
| 1952 |
| 03c | | For the religious reader there is "The Sign of Jonas," by Thomas Merton (Harcourt, Brace, Oct. 23), | |
Retail Bookseller New York City (October 1952).
| 1952 |
| 03d | Monastery Chronicle | The Sign of Jonas, by Thomas Merton, originally scheduled for fall publication, will be published by | |
Times Indianapolis, IN (28 December 1952).
| 1952 |
| 03e | Catholic | Everybody who read Seven Storey Mountain will want to read this book. It covers six years of Thomas | |
Press Cleveland, OH (2 December 1952).
| 1952 |
| 03f | The Sign of Jonas | The author's first book since "The Seven Storey Mountain" to offer real competition to that great | |
Retail Bookseller New York City (October 1952).
| 1952 |
| 04a | | "The Sign of Jonas," by Thomas Merton (Harcourt, Brace, Feb. 5), is a worthy successor to "The Seven | |
Retail Bookseller New York City (February 1953).
| 1953 |
| 04b | The Sign of Jonas | The author's first book since "The Seven Storey Mountain" to offer real competition to that great | |
Retail Bookseller New York City (February 1953).
| 1953 |
| 04c | Between the Bookends | The Sign of Jonas is the story of a priestly paradox--the candid self-assessment of a man who left | Stack, Jim |
News [Newburyport, Mass] (5 March 1953). Jim Stack
| 1953 |
| 04d | The Sign of Jonas | The author's first book since "The Seven Storey Mountain" to offer real competition to that great | |
Retail Bookseller (January 1953)
| 1953 |
| 04e | Merton, Thomas | Merton, now Father Louis of the Cistercian Order, had been five years at the Abbey of Gethsemani in | McDonald, Gerald D. |
Library Journal New York City (1 February 1953). Gerald D. McDonald
| 1953 |
| 05a | The Sign of Jonas | The Merton name is sure passport to sales, but it is important to know just what this new book is as | |
Virginia Kirkus Bulletin New York City (1 February 1953).
| 1953 |
| 05b | Books and Things | Here is Thomas Merton, who renounced the world in 1941 and has since addressed a number of books to | Hutchens, John K. |
New York Herald Tribune (6 February 1953). John K. Hutchens
| 1953 |
| 05c | The Sign of Jonas | The five-year journal of the daily routine and reflections of a member of a Cistercian Order in | |
Saturday Review (7 February 1953).
| 1953 |
| 05d | A 'New' Merton In Lively Diary | In 1946, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk at Gethsemane, Kentucky, wrote a runaway best-selling | O'Neill, Frank |
Cleveland News (5 February 1953). Frank O'Neill
| 1953 |
| 06a | Noted Trappist Proves He Has Much To Offer All Faiths In 'Sign of Jonas' | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Thos who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Toledo Blade (8 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c, 15a
| 1953 |
| 06b | Trappist Thomas Merton Recalls 6 Monastery Years | Thomas Merton, who at one time was a barker for a sideshow at the Chicago World's Fair, became in | Barensfeld, Thomas |
Plain Dealer Cleveland, OH (8 February 1953). Thomas Barensfeld
| 1953 |
| 06c | The World of Books | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Mutual Press Clipping. Harrison Smith. Also see 06a, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c, 15a
| no-year |
| 07a | In the Belly Of a Paradox | On December 30, 1949, Thomas Merton made the following entry in his journal "Tomorrow is Saint | Yeiser, Frederick |
Cincinnati Enquirer [OH] (8 February 1953): news section 50. Frederick Yeiser
| 1953 |
| 07b | More of the Merton Record: A Canded Account of Spiritual Pilgrimage of Cistercian Monk | This is an extremely candid record of a spiritual pilgrimage that is still in progress. It is the | Marchand, LaFayette L. |
Sunday Globe Boston, Mass. LaFayette L. Marchand
| no-year |
| 07c | Thomas Merton Continues Reflection Begun in 'The Seven Storey Mountain' | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Mutual Press Clipping. Harrison Smith. Also see 06a, 06c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c, 15a
| 1953 |
| 08a | Thomas Merton's Warm Account of Six Monastic Years | America, the land of activism, was startled in 1948 by the appearance of "The Seven Storey Mountain | Walsh, Chad |
New York Herald Tribune (8 February 1953). Chad Walsh
| 1953 |
| 08b | The Paradox of the Recluse Whose Writing Draws Crowds | Taking up his life where The Seven Storey Mountain left off, Thomas Merton has now published a | |
News Savannah, GA (8 February 1953).
| 1953 |
| 08c | Daily Life in Trappist Monastery | Not only Catholics have bought this Trappist monk's two popular books Seven Storey Mountain and The | |
Herald Miami Florida (8 February 1953).
| 1953 |
| 09a | The Daily Journal of a Silent Trappist Monk | Eleven years ago Thomas Merton, now Father Louis, entered the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani in | MacGregor, Martha |
New York Post (8 February 1953). Martha MacGregor
| 1953 |
| 09b | Monk's Story of His Life | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Roanoke Times (8 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 06a, 06c, 07c, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c, 15a
| 1953 |
| 09c | Journal Revealing in Monastery Meditations | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
News Santa Barbara, CA (9 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 60a, 06c, 07c, 09b, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c, 15a
| 1953 |
| 10a | American Monk Tells of Quest For Total Immersion Into God | This is the journal of six years of Thomas Merton's life as a monk in the Trappist monastery of Our | Griffin, John Howard |
Times Herald Dallas, TX (8 February 1953). John H. Griffin
| 1953 |
| 10b | Meditations and Prayers of a Monk | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Beacon Wichita Kansas (8 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 60a, 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 12d, 13a, 14c, 15a
| 1953 |
| 11 | Silent Searcher in a Shouting World | I am quite sure there has been no books like this, It is a diary kept during five years spent in a | Shuster, George N. |
New York Times Book Review 58 (8 February 1953): 1. George N. Shuster
| 1953 |
| 12a | Fan Mail Is Penance to Famed Monk | To be an author in a Trappist monastery is, says Thomas Merton, "to be like a duck in a chicken coop | McGarey, Mary |
Star Washington DC (8 Feb 1953). M. McG.
| 1953 |
| 12b | Journal of a Trappist | Out of the stillness of the Trappist monastery in Gethsemane, Ky., comes the welcome voice of Thomas | |
Courant Hartford Conn (8 February 1953). A.D.V.
| 1953 |
| 12c | Thomas Merton | Our third contributor to the literary world is Thomas Merton. His kind of writing is vastly | |
Mercury Medford, Mass (9 February 1953).
| 1953 |
| 12d | Merton's Journal Tells of Monastic Life, Its Rewards | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Evening News Buffalo, NY (14 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 60a, 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 13a, 14c, 15a
| 1953 |
| 12e | Merton's Spiritual Journal Records His Inner Conflicts | The Sign of Jonas, by Thomas Merton (Harcourt-Brace, $3.50), is the spiritual journal of Merton (now | Burn, George V. |
Press Cleveland, OH (10 February 1953). George V. Burn
| 1953 |
| 13a | Life of Meditation Told | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Union San Diego, CA (8 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 60a, 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 14c, 15a
| 1953 |
| 13b | Merton's 'Sign of Jonas" More Life in Monastery | Second installment of the Trappistine journal begun with "Seven Story Mountain," Thomas Merton's The | |
Star Toronto, CA (14 February 1953).
| 1953 |
| 13c | Journal Started After Five Years in Monastery | After five years in the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani, Father Louis, this author, started this | Rogers, W.G. |
Mutual Press Clippings Philadelphia, PA (12 February 1953). W.G. Rogers. Also see 16c
| 1953 |
| 14a | Diary of a Poet Monk: Thomas Merton, Whose 'Seven Storey Mountain' Was a Best Seller, Writes of His | When "the Seven Storey Mountain," the autobiography of Thomas Merton, poet and man of the world who | Cattoi, Louise |
Journal Milwaukee Wis (8 February 1953). Louise Cattoi
| 1953 |
| 14b | Dramatic Life of Fr. Louis | The personal journal of Father Louis (Thomas Merton) of Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky provides a | Mossman, Josef |
News Detroit, MI (15 February 1959). Josef Mossman
| 1959 |
| 14c | Merton's 'Sign of Jonas' Eloquently Portrays Faith | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Observer Charlotte NC (15 February 1953). Harrison Smith. Also see 60a, 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 15a
| 1953 |
| 15a | Monk's Journal Tells Unique Life | Thomas Merton has a great deal to offer men and women of every faith. Those who have read his | Smith, Harrison |
Spokesman Review Spokane, Wash. (15 February 1953)Harrison Smith. Also see 60a, 06c, 07c, 09b, 09c, 10b, 12d, 13a, 14c
| 1953 |
| 15b | Fascinating Reading In Merton's Journal | This book is copyrighted by the Abbey of Our Lady of the Gethsemani, located near Louisville, KY. | Lucchese, Sam F. |
Journal Atlanta, GA (15 February 1953). Sam F. Lucchese
| 1953 |
| 15c | Author Reveals Monastic Life in Own Journal | Have you ever wanted to look into an author's mind and see what the thoughts were behind his | Nestlebush, R.P. |
Gazette Little Rock Ark (15 February 1953). R.P. Nestlebush
| 1953 |
| 16a | Thomas merton's Sequel to His 1948 Autobiography | Thomas Merton is the hard-living young man who turned his back on the world to become a Trappist | Habich, William |
Courier Journal [Louisville, KY] (15 February 1953). William Habich
| 1953 |
| 16b | 'The Sign of Jonas' by Thomas Merton | Thomas Merton known as Fr. Louis of the Cistercian order, loves the great forest trees near the | |
Republican Springfield Mass. J.W.C.
| no-year |
| 16c | Journal of Father Louis | After five years in the Trappist monastery of Gethsemani, Father Louis, this author, started his | |
Sunday Register New Haven, Conn. Also see 13c
| no-year |
| 17a | In the Belly of a Paradox | In 1948 there was published a book called "the Seven Storey Mountain," written by Thomas Merton. It | Redman, Ben Ray |
Saturday Review of Literature [New York] 36 (21 February 1953): 45-46. Ben Ray Redman
| 1953 |
| 17b | merton's Journal | This is the journal of Thomas Merton, now Father Louis of the Trappist monastery at Gethsemani. | Pasley, Gertrude |
News Newark, NJ (22 February 1953). Gertrude Pasley
| 1953 |
| 18a | The Search of the Spirit | Those who read, and were fascinated by Thomas Merton's "The Seven Storey Mountain" must, like this | Weston, D.R. |
Gazette Montreal Canada (21 February 1953). D.R. Weston
| 1953 |
| 18b | Thomas Merton's Resurrection Tale | For those who had the privilege of meeting this thoroughly-lived and profound personality of the | Kiken, Jonas |
Post Denver CO (15 February 1953). Jonas Kiken
| 1953 |
| 18c | Monastic Life Detailed in Trappist Diary | Close followers of Thomas Merton's prolific writings will find in "The Sign of Jonas" a change in | McGarey, Mary |
Dispatch Columbus OH (22 February 1953). Mary McGarey
| 1953 |
| 19a | This week I read | Off and on for the past two or three weeks I have been reading this journal of Thomas Merton. A | Graham, Kathleen |
Leader Post Regina, Sask. Canada (28 February 1953). Kathleen Graham
| 1953 |
| 19b | What's What in Books | At one time the monk was a man of mystery. The relatively few men--women were never permitted--who | Canfield, F.X. |
Michigan Catholic [Detroit, MI] (5 March 1953). Fr. F.X. Canfield
| 1953 |
| 19c | New 'Journal' Draws Praise | Thomas Merton has called this journal of the six years of his life since solemn profession, "the | Casey, George W. |
Herald Boston Mass (22 February 1953). George W. Casey
| 1953 |
| 19d | Merton as Monk | "It is five years since I came to this monastery" begins this journal by Father Louis, known far and | Harrop, Mona |
Times-Star Cincinnati [OH] (3 March 1953). Mona Harrop
| 1953 |
| 19e | The Sign of Jonas | Day-journal of "Seven Storey Mountain" author, one of today's best-known Catholic converts, | |
News Dallas TX (1 March 1953).
| 1953 |
| 20a | Fr. Louis Climbs Great Mountain | About six years ago a very modern young man captured the American reading public with the story of | Broderick, John A. |
Post, Boston, MA (8 March 1953). John A. Broderick
| 1953 |
| 20b | Trappist Monk Writes Moving Accoutn of the Joys of Contemplative Living | What manner of life does a Trappist monk lead? Is it a life of silence and negativity interspersed | |
Spectator Hamilton, Ont Canada (28 February 1953). J.P.
| 1953 |
| 20c | Correspondent in Kentucky | A little more about Thomas Merton from whose "The Sign of Jonas" excerpts appear today in "This Week | |
New York Herald Tribune (8 March 1953).
| 1953 |
| 20d | The Sign of Jonas | "Yesterday we were out in the middle bottom, spreading manure over the gray mud of the cornfields. I | Kielt, Bernadine |
Book of the Month New York (March 1953). Bernadine Kielt
| 1953 |
| 21a | Day by Day Inside a Monastery | Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, believes that, like Jonah in the whale, he is traveling toward his | Donald D. Jones |
Star Kansas City Kansas (28 March 1953). Donald D. Jones
| 1953 |
| 21b | Spiritual Saga of Merton | Intimate glimpses into the soul of a man who can hardly wait to lose himself in God are given in | MacGillivray, Leo |
Ensign Ottawa Canada (21 March 1953). Leo MacGillivray
| 1953 |
| 21c | The Sign of Jonas | Being the private journal of a Trappist monk, this is a most unusual book. Written where silence is | |
Daily Province Vancouver BC (28 March 1953). J.W.W.
| 1953 |
| 21d | Merton, Thomas | "Personal notes and meditations" of the author of the Seven Storey Mountain (Book Review Digest 1948 | McSorley, Joseph; J.A. O'Brien, Henry Rago, G.D. McDonald, S.M. Fitzgerald, etc |
Book Review Digest (April 1953). Excerpts from reviews by Joseph McSorley, J.A. O'Brien, Henry Rago, G.D. McDonald, S.M. Fitzgerald, Chad Walsh, and G.N. Shuster
| 1953 |
| 21e | | Thomas Merton, American author of the best-selling book, "The Seven Storey Mountain," has now had | |
Edmonton Journal Alta. Canada (28 March 1953).
| 1953 |
| 22a | The Sign of Jonas | The author of "The Seven Storey Mountain," who is now Father Louis of the Cistercian Order at the | |
Chronicle San Francisco CA (19 April 1953).
| 1953 |
| 22b | The Quiet Search For Faith | In "the Sign of Jonas," Merton still is trying to find himself. The book will be found full of | |
Observer Raleigh NC (12 April 1953). A.C.
| 1953 |
| 22c | Monastery Life Told: Thomas Merton Has An Absorving Story | In "the Sign of Jonas," a journal by Thomas Merton, you get a glimpse of life in a monastery. This | Lazorcak, Marty |
Press Pittsburg, PA (24 May 1953). Marty Lazorcak
| 1953 |
| 22d | Reviews in Brief: | Before "the Seven Storey Mountain" was published. Thomas Merton had begun to keep a journal. "The | |
Record Chelsea Mass (23 April 1953).
| 1953 |
| 22e | The Sign of Jonas | Thomas Merton, the author of the best seller "the Seven Story Mountain," has again arisen from the | |
Catholic Home Messenger Canfield OH (August 1953). D.J.D.
| 1953 |
| 22f | Between Book Ends: With Merton in His Monastery | The many readers of Thomas Merton's "the Seven Storey Mountain," a poetic account of a young man's | Holland, Dorothy Garesche |
Post Dispatch St. Louis, MO (28 May 1953). Dorothy Garesche Holland
| 1953 |
| 22g | Book Reviews | Have you ever noticed what a Trappist monk thinks in the cloisters? He is under a vow to silence so | Pearson, Flaval |
Chehalis Advocate [Chehalis, Wash] (1 October 1953). Flaval Pearson
| 1953 |
| 23a | Merton, Thomas | "Personal notes and meditations" of the author of The Seven Storey Mountain (Book Review Digest 1948 | McSorley, Joseph; J.A. O'Brien, Henry Rago, G.D. McDonald, S.M. Fitzgerald, etc |
Book Review Digest (August 1953). Excerpts from reviews by Joseph McSorley, J.A. O'Brien, Henry Rago, G.D. McDonald, S.M. Fitzgerald, Chad Walsh, G.N. Shuster, and J.V.
| 1953 |
| 23b | Merton, Thomas | Five years after Thomas Merton became a Trappist monk, and before the publication of The Seven | |
US Quarterly Book Review (June 1953).
| 1953 |
| 23c | The Sign of Jonas | Thomas Merton, Father Louis, a Trappist monk, famed author of The Seven Storey Mountain, brings us | |
Personalist (Autumn 1953). R.T.F.
| 1953 |
| 23d | The Sign of Jonas. By Thomas Merton | The first half of the book seems to me really to deserve that sticky adjective 'exalting.' As a | |
Commonweal (4 December 1953).
| 1953 |
| 23e | The Sign of Jonas | Being the private journal of a Trappist monk, this is a most unusual book. Written where silence is | |
Evening Citizen Ottawa Canada (4 April 1953).
| 1953 |
| 23f | Thomas Merton's Trappist Diary | Originally published by Harcourt, Brace in 1952, The Sign of Jonas received wide attention as "the | Du Buis, Maria |
St Joseph Magazine (April 1956). Maria Du Buis
| 1956 |
| 23g | The Sign of Jonas, by thomas Merton (Image Books) | There are a lost of good Merton books around, too, but I like this one best. Joan of Arc, by Charles | Sullivan, Oona |
Jubilee (February 1961). Oona Sullivan
| 1961 |
| 24 | The meaning of Thomas Merton | When The Seven Storey Mountain appeared, it answered many questions about modern society and the | Landy, Joseph |
America 88 (21 February 1953): 569-570. Spanish translation published in Digesto Catolico in June 1953 - "El Significado de Thomas Merton" - pp. 63-67.
| 1953 |
| 25 | Subtle, Fascinating, Like His 'Seven Storey Mountain' | A new book by Thomas Merton is not much of a novelty these days, for the author of "The Seven Storey | O'Brien, John A. |
Chicago Sunday Tribune (8 February 1953): John A. O'Brien
| 1953 |
| 26 | From the Belly of the Whale | One summer at the Abbey of Our Lady of New Melleray a Trappist was showing me around the raw | Rago, Henry |
Commonweal 57 (27 February 1953): 526-529. Henry Rago
| 1953 |
| 27 | | To re-read these two books is to be transported to another world, one of high hope and enthusiasm. | Cary-Elwes, Columba OSB |
Heythrop Journal [London] 19.1 (January 1978): 118-119.
| 1978 |
| 28 | | For a variety of reasons many persons will be drawn to the reading of this book. Some will wish to | McSorley, Joseph |
Catholic World 176 (March 1953): 474-475.
| 1953 |
| 29 | | Words and deeds, the thought and the act, make an odd counter-point, and one can never tell which | Squire, Aelred, OP |
Blackfriars 34 (July-August 1953) 363-364.
| 1953 |
| 30 | Father Thomas Merton | This is the spiritual journal of Thomas Merton, the well-known writer. It is not a book to please | James, Bruno S. |
Dublin Review 227 (Fall 1953): 314-315.
| 1953 |
| 31 | | Before The Seven Storey Mountain was publsihed Thomas Merton had begun to keep a journal. | Reparata, Sister Mary OP |
Catholic Library World 24 (March 1953): 203.
| 1953 |
| 32 | | In this autobiographical study, sequel to his best-selling The Seven Storey Mountain, Father Louis | Ducey, Michael |
American Benedictine Review 4.3 (Autumn 1953): 277-278.
| 1953 |
| 33 | | The Sign of Jonas contains Thomas Merton's Trappist journal from December, 1946, to July, 1952, | Ryan, E.A., S.J. |
Thought 29 (June 1954): 314-315.
| 1954 |
| 34 | "My Work Is My Hermitage" | Elected Silence was an important and interesting book; important because it illustrated the thirst for contemplation | Speaight. Robert |
Tablet [London] (6 June 1953): 12.
| 1953 |
| 35 | | Thomas Merton is certainly the only Catholic writer on the | Velarde, R. |
Life of the Spirit 8.89 (November 1953): 236-238.
| 1953. |
| 36 | | This is a sequel to Elected Silence. It is the diary | O'Donoghue, Dermot |
The Furrow, 4.10 (Oct. 1953): 608-609.
| 1953. |