that F. Bouix has stated as a fact that which is not. Again, in
ch. xxxix. section 29, the printed editions have after the words,
"Thou art Mine, and I am thine," "I am in the habit. . .
sincerity;" but Don Vicente omits them. This may have been an
oversight, for in general he points out in his notes all the
discrepancies between the printed editions and the original text.

A new translation of the Life of St. Teresa seems called for now,
because the original text has been collated since the previous
translations were made, and also because those translations are
exceedingly scarce. The first is believed to be this--it is a
small quarto:

"The Lyf of the Mother Teresa of Jesus, Foundresse of the
Monasteries of the Discalced or Bare-footed Carmelite Nunnes and
Fryers of the First Rule.
"Written by herself at the commaundement of her ghostly father,
and now translated into English out of Spanish. By W.M., of the
Society of Jesus.
"Imprinted in Antwerp by Henry Jaye. Anno MDCXI."

Some thirty years afterwards, Sir Tobias Matthew, S.J.,
dissatisfied, as he says, with the former translation, published
another, with the following title; the volume is a small octavo
in form:

"The Flaming Hart, or the Life of the glorious St. Teresa,
Foundresse of the Reformation of the Order of the All-Immaculate
Virgin Mother, our B. Lady of Mount Carmel.
"This History of her Life was written by the Saint in Spanish,