Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to an American
Public Philosophy Edited by R. Bruce Douglass and David Hollenbach Cambridge University Press, 352 pages, $ 59.95
Two years ago, with the No. 1 Ladies» Detective Agency series purring nicely along and various other literary enterprises keeping his name before the
public, McCall Smith found time and energy to inaugurate a new series, centering on Isabel Dalhousie, a character who, we are told,
edits the Review of Applied
Philosophy from her home in Edinburgh.