BRIEF NOTICES Sx Augustine. Arianism and Other Heresies. Introduction, translation and notes by Roland Teske, SJ. [The Works of Samt Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century. Part I: Books,Volume 18.] (Hyde Park, New York: New City Press. 1995. Pp. 486. $39.00.) It may come as a surprise to most people but many of the works of St. Augustine have stiU not been translated into EngUsh.The current project ofthe Augustinian Heritage Institute,"The Works of Saint Augustine:A Translation for the 21st Century," if carried through to completion, wUl fiU that gap. This volume, the twelfth Ui order of pubUcation, is the first volume to be translated by someone other than the industrious EngUsh Dominican, Edmund HUl. His translation of the sermones adpopulum is the first complete translation of that series, although there are some recently discovered sermons stiU to be done. Any such project necessarily involves yet another translation of the Confessions or the City of God. But this volume, done by Roland Teske, SJ., of Marquette University, offers the first EngUsh translations of several late polemical works. The same scholar recently pubUshed the first English translations of early Augustinian commentaries on Genesis in the "Fathers of the Church" series . This volume contains anti-Arian and anti-PriscilUanist works as weU as a general survey of aU heresies, a work for which even the author would claim Uttle originaUty. Finalty, there is a work written to refute a book found on sale near the waterfront in Carthage. The author of "The Enemy of the Law and the Prophets" is difficult to categorize but Teske says that "Neo-Marcionite" may be as good a label as any. WhUe these worics are Uttle known, aU such translations wUl help the great Father to become better known,though,it mustbe admitted, the elderly Augustine was not at his best in debate with the Arian bishop. Robert B. Eno, S.S. (The Catholic University ofAmerica) Block, David. Mission Culture on the UpperAmazon: Native Tradition, Jesuit Enterprise, Secular Policy in Moxos, 1660-1880. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1994. Pp. xiv, 240. $30.00.) This study of the Moxos Indians Ui what today is northern and lowland BoUvia unweaves the threads of the natural, aboriginal, and missionary constituents of life Ui this region over roughly two centuries. The missionary 159 160BRIEF NOTICES enterprise there was under the direction of theJesuits of the province of Peru: its records have recently been pubUshed in a series of the Monumenta Histórica of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome. As with theU neighbors, the Chiqutos Indians, the tribal organization and culture of the Moxos survived the upheavals foUowing the break-up of the Spanish colonial empire thanks to the extreme remoteness in the inhospitable forest,and also in part thanks to the Jesuit system ofploughing back into the missions aU profits from the industries they estabUshed. Dr. Block's book is pioneering work in a neglected area ofSouth American Indian studies. There is an ample and valuable bibUography occupying almost one quarter of the book that offers lines for further research. Philip Caraman, SJ. (Dulverton, Somerset, England) Chorpenning,Joseph E, O.S.ES. (ed.). Mexican Devotional Retablosfrom the Peters Collection (PhUadelphia: Saint Joseph's University Press. 1994. Pp. x, 181. $75.00 hardbound, $45.00 paperback.) This is a valuable addition to the growing body of Uterature on Mexican retablo art. Although the subject coUection is relatively smaU, Mr. & Mrs.Joseph P Peters have entrusted St.Joseph's University, PhUadelphia, with what is surely the best ofthis proliferate art form that flourished in north central Mexico from the mid-nineteenth century until the early twentieth. Joseph and Ruth Peters give us a rare insight into what motivated them to coUect this "poor man's art" and how they proceeded to learn about it. Nancy HamUton provides a brief background on the origin of this artistic genre, identifying the limited area of manufacture and the materials and techniques employed by the painters. Essays by Christopher C. WUson and Father Chorpenning provide far more comprehensive information about the probable artistic prototypes used as models by Mexican provincial artists than was previously available. WUson identifies the dominant themes...