D. Duchevre, with this title : " La Vie de la Mere Terese

de Jesus, composee par le R. P. Francois Ribera, traduitc d'Espagnol en Francais par J. D. B. P. et le P. G. C. C." The style is very antiquated. With regard to Ribera's Life, as he was St. Teresa's confessor whenever she came to Sala manca, he must have had abundant means and opportunities of learning many valuable particulars about the Saint's Life. These he relates with great fidelity and unction, though the thread of his narration is often interrupted by pious reflec tions, and by a want of order and method ; still the " Life" is exceedingly valuable and interesting.
The next writer after Ribera, is Diego de Yepez, of the Order of the Hieronymites, and Bishop of Tarassona, in Aragon, and confessor to St. Teresa and King Philip II. of Spain. Having the advantage of the labors of Ribera, and possessing the happiness of being an intimate friend of St. Teresa, he was enabled to furnish us with more valuable
* These consist of Commentaries on the twelve minor Prophets; on St. Paul's Epistle to the llobrews ; on the Apocalypse, and the Gospel of St. John.
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details than his predecessor. The style is somewhat diffuse, but the Life is written with more order and judgment than that of Ribera. Yepez dedicated his work to Pope Paul