"Father Quigley, parish priest of Rockcorry, has put into a handy volume a summary of much scattered erudition about the Canonical Office, with special reference to the Roman Breviary. He divides his matter into four sections, the first of which gives a definition and general history of the liturgical prayer of the Church. The reader is made familiar with the composition and broad contents of the Roman Breviary, its division of the ecclesiastical year, its general rubrics and mode of recitation. The second part of the volume is devoted to a series of instructions, in catechetical form, drawn from moral and ascetical theology intended to direct the devotional spirit in which the Office should be said. The third section takes up the separate part, Matins and Lauds, the Hours, Vespers and Complin, and discusses their structure and general contents. To this part is added a brief historical notice about the Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The concluding chapters consists of notes on the Sundays, feasts, vigils, and ferials of the ecclesiastical year. There is a brief discussion about the hymns of the Breviary, and an admonitory in form of an examen as to the manner in which the recitation is rightly made. The volume concludes with a bibliographical reference to some liturgical sources chiefly on the hymnology of the Office. "The volume bears evidence of painstaking reading on the subject, and the historical references are throughout interwoven with devotional suggestions pointing to the practical aim which the writer had in view." The American Ecclesiastical Review;: A Monthly Publication for The Clergy, Volume 63, 1920 "In his preface the reverend author expresses the hope that The Divine Office, a study of the Roman Breviary, by Rev. E. J. Quigley may serve as an introductory manual to the study of the Breviary. We think it may well do so. Also that it will be of special service to priests. It presents in one volume information about the Divine Office drawn from history, liturgy, theology and ascetic literature." -New Catholic World, Volume 112, 1921