Grapes and Thorns. By M. A. T.

Notes

Catholic fiction. Mr. Schöninger, a Jewish musician, resides in Crichton, a New England city where the Jews are not always accepted ("To Jane’s mind, every Jew was a Judas. ... The worst criminal, if nominally a Catholic, was in her eyes infinitiely preferable to the best Jew in the world," p. 39). To win Honora Pembroke’s hand in marriage, Schöninger is converted by Father Chevreuse, the local Catholic priest. The edition published in New York by The Catholic Publication Society, [c1874], is more common.