| File# | Title | First Line | Rev.Author | Citation | Year |
| 01 | The Silent Life | a Catholic monk, who is one of the foremost interpreters of his faith to the layman, writes a short | No Author Listed |
Publishers' Weekly (3 December 1956).
| 1956 |
| 02a | Noted Novelist Reveals Secrets of Monastic Life | Merton, who wrote "the Seven Storey Mountain," maintains that the monastic life is experiencing its | Scratch, Patty |
Citizen Hollywood CA (4 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 02b | The Silent Life | Beginning with his widely read autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain" in 1948, Thomas Merton, | Sweeney, Anne |
Banner Nashville, TN (4 January1957).
| 1957 |
| 02c | The Silent Life | "Because of Thomas Merton," Evelyn Waugh has said, "America is discovering the monastic life and its | Camillus, M. |
Globe Sioux City, Iowa (3 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 03a | Thomas merton Casts Light on Monastic Life | Coming from the busy pen of Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, this slender volume throws light upon | O'Brien, John A. |
Chicago Sunday Tribune (6 January 1957): 8.
| 1957 |
| 03b | Thomas merton Tells Aspects of Monastic Life | This is just the book for persons who have wondered about monks and monastic life. "A monk is a man | Kramer, Richard Neil |
New Sentinel Fort Wayne, IN (5 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 03c | By A Monk--About All Monks | "The Silent Life" is by one who abandoned the fleshpots of Greenwich Village and the intellectual | Habich, William |
News Journal Pensacola Florida (6 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 03d | Discourse on Monasticism | In modern American society the idea of a man shutting himself up in a monastery is considered odd, | Scardino, Katherine M. |
News Savannah, GA (6 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 04a | Portrait of a Monk | The story of people finishing the last page of Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain and hopping | Rushton, Frederick L. |
Telegram Worcester, MA (6 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 04b | Monastic Life | The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton (Farrar, Strauss and Cudahy; $3.50), is a new book by the Trappist | No Author Listed |
Star Washington DC (8 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 04c | | Also recent and worthy: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy: "The Silent Life," by Thomas Merton ($3.50), an | No Author Listed |
New York Times (13 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 04d | Merton Again Extolls Cloistered Life of Monk | On a day that produces John Keats' fusillade into the wallow of mediocrity that claims so many of us | No Author Listed |
New York World Telegram (17 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 04e | Merton, Thomas. A Man in the Divided Sea. 1946 | After a discussion of the spiritual principles on which the monastic life is grounded the Trappist | No Author Listed |
Booklist [Chicago, IL] 53 (15 January 1957): 237.
| 1957 |
| 04f | Merton, Thomas | Evelyn Waugh has observed that America is discovering the monastic life and its meaning because of | Wassmer, Thomas A., S.J., PhD |
Best Sellers 16 (15 January 1957): 355-356.
| 1957 |
| 04g | The Silent Life | A brief but lucid exposition of the life purpose of a monk by a Catholic monk who is one of the | No Author Listed |
Journal Providence, RI (13 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 04h | Religion | this rarely told story of the monastic life is a simply written explanation of monasticism, its | No Author Listed |
Herald Tribune New York City (13 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 05a | Pilgrimage Of the Spirit | The bristling Latin quotations, references to the Church Scriptures give the pages of this book a | C. |
Times Herald Dallas, TX (20 January 1957). C.
| 1957 |
| 05b | Seeking God In Solitude | "To sit in a room where everything is so still that one can hear a grain of sand fall, and | Brewer, James |
Pilot Norfolk, VA (20 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 05c | He Now Writes As a Mystic | Mysticism has a history as long as the available record of man's thoughts. It is no wonder that it | Marchand, LaFayette L. |
Globe Boston, MA (20 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 05d | The Silent Life | Anyone in America who has ever tried to gather information concerting the customs and practices of | Langlois, R.L. |
Ave Maria 85 (26 January 1957): 587.
| 1957 |
| 05e | Meditation Is What Makes Monastery Go | Thomas Merton's short narrative on St. Benedictine Monasteries will be remembered by Christians and | Hosea, Fred |
Times Herald Dallas, TX (20 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 05f | | A monk himself, Thomas Merton writes of monastic life in "The Silent Life." He describes the two | No Author Listed |
Times Los Gatos, CA (30 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 05g | | America, it is said, is discovering the monastic life and its meaning through Thomas Merton. Father | No Author Listed |
Press Telegram Long Beach CA (3 February 1957).
| 1957 |
| 05h | Monastic Life | In the first book of its kind to appear in English, this is the full story of monastic life--of the | M. |
Avertiser Montgomery, AL (17 February 1957). M.
| 1957 |
| 06a | Monastic Regime As Lived Today | With depth of perception, Thomas Merton explains the meaning of the monastic life. To those | Hansen, Ann N. |
Dispatch Columbus, OH (24 February 1957).
| 1957 |
| 06b | | There is a wealth of information to be found in these two books on the theory and practice of | Hayes, Vincent de Paul |
America 96 (23 February 1957): 587; incomplete copy.
| 1957 |
| 06c | Origins And Rules Of Monks | In a neat brown volume illustrated with photographs of monks and hermits at their labors or | Frayser, Louise C. |
Times Dispatch Richmond, VA (17 February 1957).
| 1957 |
| 07a | Mr. Merton Studies Life of 'Silence' | Father Merton has contributed as enlightening and informative book in "The Silent Life." He explains | Meadowcroft, Doris |
News Charleston SC (24 February 1957).
| 1957 |
| 07b | Trappist Monk Writes Book to Explain Monastic Life to Laymen | Thomas Merton, who should be eminently qualified on the subject, being a Trappist monk, has written | Record, Pat |
Star Ft Worth, TX (25 February 1957).
| 1957 |
| 07c | The Silent Life | Monastic life is experiencing its greatest revival since the Middle Ages. Mr. Merton, a monk himself | No Author Listed |
Gazette Middleboro, MA (28 February 1957).
| 1957 |
| 07d | Thomas Merton Pens Good Account of Monastic Life | To the countless Americans who have become interested in the monastic life and its meaning through | L.M. |
Standard New Bedford, MA (24 February 1957). L.M.
| 1957 |
| 08a | The Silent Life | This book combines the meditative spirit of the Seeds of Contemplation with the historical research | Crowley, Richard C. |
Sign 36 (March 1957): 65-66.
| 1957 |
| 08b | Thomas Merton Authors Meditation On Monastic Life | What is a monk? "A monk," says Thomas Merton in this his latest book, "is a man who has been called | LaBranche, Ernest E. |
Catholic Free Press (29 March 1957).
| 1957 |
| 08c | The Silent Life | The monastic life, undergoing an unprecedented revival, is fully explained here by one who knows it | Klein, Francis A. |
Globe-Democrat St Louis MO (13 May 1957).
| 1957 |
| 08d | 'Silent Life' Shows How 'Spirit Is Made Flesh' | The monastic life is a puzzling one to most persons. They not only do not understand it, they find | Millen, Pauline |
Des Moines Sunday Register (10 March 1957).
| 1957 |
| 08e | Books--Authors | Books about and by Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, are on Farrar, Straus & Cudahy's publication | No Author Listed |
New York Times (13 October 1956).
| 1956 |
| 09a | Monastic Life In Today's World | The jacket blurb is correct in noting that the monastic life is today experiencing its most | Eberle, Luke, O.S.B. |
Presbyterian Action (July 1957).
| 1957 |
| 09b | Religion Revealed in Silence | The Carthusians, the most intransigent of the many monastic order, have, says Thomas Merton, "an | LaFarge, John, S.J. |
Saturday Review 40 (18 May 1957): 39.
| 1957 |
| 09c | Merton, Thomas | Even to many spiritual persons the lives of monks seem wasted, and so Thomas Merton's beautiful | Heiser, William Charles, S.J. |
Booklist Chicago, IL (8 December 1956).
| 1956 |
| 09d | The Silent Life | Beautifully printed, and with lovely photographs, this is Father Merton's account, for laymen, of | No Author Listed |
Episcopal Church News (3 March 1957).
| 1957 |
| 09e | Trappist Explains The Search for God | Father Thomas Merton of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Kentucky, has written | Barbour, Thomas |
Tennessean Nashville, TN (13 May 1957).
| 1957 |
| 10a | Life in Monastery Impressively Told By Thomas Merton | Evelyn Waugh has written that America is discovering the monastic life and its meaning because of | Rousseau-Evans, Blanche |
Sun Jackson, TN (14 July 1957).
| 1957 |
| 10b | The Silent Life | This volume is a work on the monastic life written by the well-known poet and Trappist monk whose | No Author Listed |
Virginia Kirkus Bulletin 24 (1 December 1956): 883.
| 1956 |
| 11 | By A Monk--About All Monks | "The Silent Life" is by one who abandoned the fleshpots of Greenwich Village and the intellectual | Habich, William |
Courier Journal (6 January 1957).
| 1957 |
| 12 | | In these two works Father Merton treats of the monastic life under rather different aspects. | MacGregor, George |
Irish Ecclesiastical Record 90 (September 1958): 210-211.
| 1958 |
| 13 | | "O Happy, most happy the soul that is drawn by grace to God by God, so that, through the unity of | Dell'Isola, Frank |
Catholic World 185 (February 1957): 396-397.
| 1957 |
| 14 | | Originally published in 1957, The Silent Life is now available in a paperback edition for all who | Clancy, Patrick M. J., O.P. |
Cross and Crown 12 (December 1960): 491-492.
| 1960 |
| 15 | Call of the Cloister | A striking phenomenon in Roman | Murray, Gregory A., O.S.B. |
Times Literary Supplement [London] 2910 (Dec. 6 1957): 744.
| 1957 |
| 16 | | Thomas Merton's latest book is an excellent | Neville, Margaret M. |
(September-October 1957): 16.
| 1957 |
| 17 | Inside Story | This book, in the words of its author, | McGinnis, Thos. E. |
The Scapular (July-August 1957): 35.
| 1957 |
| 18 | | Father Merton, the author of | No Author Listed |
Newsday Club (January 5, 1957).
| 1957 |
| 19 | | A popular book on the monastic orders has long been needed, and | Farmer, Hugh |
Life of the Spirit (December 1957): 287.
| 1957 |
| 20 | | Within a sepia dust jacket photograph | No Author Listed |
Catholic News (January 12, 1957).
| 1957 |
| 21 | Monk's Story | Father Thomas Merton has written | Chabot, Edward |
| 1957 |
| 22 | Enlightenment for Those Who Think the Monk a 'Total Loss' | One of the least understood | M. J. |
The Monitor (February 8, 1957).
| 1957 |
| 23 | | Thomas Merton's The Silent Life | Devlin, John J. |
Vermont Catholic Tribune (January 25, 1957).
| 1957 |
| 24 | Monastic Life Described in Latest Merton Volume | The monastic life is difficult for | Ethridge, W. N. |
State Times, Jackson, Mississippi (January 27, 1957).
| 1957 |
| 25 | Between the Bookends | Belated though I am, since all the | McCarthy, Helen |
The Public Spirit (January 10, 1957).
| 1957 |
| 26 | | Many questions about the contemplative life are being asked today with | Hart, J. E. |
Catholic Review Service VIII.7 (February 11, 1957): 39.
| 1957 |
| 27 | | For a better understanding of the monastic | No Author Listed |
Franciscan Herald and Forum (March 1957).
| 1957 |
| 28 | Merton's Magic Touch: Life of the Monk Brought Into Range of 'Reality' | Several years ago when Thomas Merton announced | Shinar, Jacob C. |
The Pittsburgh Press (December 30, 1956): 8.
| 1956 |
| 29 | Trappist Writes of Simple, Rugged Souls | The Trappist is the greatest enigma, the new hero (with all its false implications of) | Demarest, Donald |
The News Weekly (January 6, 1957): 2-B.
| 1957 |
| 30 | Monk's New Book Reflects His Growth | When Thomas Merton wrote Sign of Jonas | Agatha, Sister M. |
The Houston Chronicle (December 23, 1956).
| 1956 |
| 31 | Monastery Life Is Described by Thomas Merton | Any new book by Thomas Merton | Barensfeld, Thomas |
Cleveland Plain Dealer (May 12, 1959).
| 1959 |
| 32 | | Something on everyman's shelf of books | No Author Listed |
Jubilee (March 1959).
| 1959 |
| 33 | | A Catholic monk gives a lucid, graceful description of the | No Author Listed |
Minneapolis (January 13, 1957).
| 1957 |