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Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive BY GEORGE WILLIAM RUTLER SCEPTER, 172 PAGES, $9.95
As the Victorians enjoyed collecting curiosities, so Fr. George Rutler enjoys collecting curious people. In this book he walks us through the specimens he keeps under glass. One might be tempted to think this tour only a collection of vignettes - a basket of bonbons to be enjoyed with frivolous pleasure, or a brag sheet of famous people Fr. Rutler has met. The book is that, up to a point, but not all the people within its covers are famous....