Author:Henry Formby

Henry Formby
(1817–1884)

Works

• A Visit to the East (1843)
• The Catholic Christian's Guide to the Right Use of Christian Psalmody of the Psalter (1847)
• The Plain Chant the Image and Symbol of the Humanity of the Divine Redeemer and the Blessed Virgin Mary (1848)
• The Roman Ritual and Its Canto Fermo (1849)
• The Young Singer's Book of Songs (1852)
• A First Series of Hymns and Songs (1853)
  • Catholic Hymns
• The Duties and Happiness of Domestic Service (1851)
• The March of Intellect; or, The Alleged Hostility of the Catholic Church to the Diffusion of Knowledge Examined (1852)
• School Songs and Poetry to Which Music Is Adapted (1852)
• State Rationalism in Education; An Examination into the Actual Working and Results of the System of the Board of Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (1854)
• Pictorial Bible Stories for the Young (1856)
• The Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary (1857)
• Our Lady of Salette (1857)
• The Life of St. Benedict (1858)
• The Parables of Our Lord Jesus Christ (1858)
• The Life of St. Patrick (1862)
• The Inquiry of a Retired Citizen into the Truth of the Catholic Religion (1863)
• The Cause of Poor Catholic Emigrants Pleaded (1867)
• Fleury's Historical Catechism continued to the Vatican Council (1871)
• The Book of the Holy Rosary (1872)
• De Annis Christi Tractatus (1872)
• Sacrum Septenarium (1874)
• The Children's Forget-me-not (1877)
• Compendium of the Philosophy of Ancient History
• Little Book of the Martyrs of the City of Rome (1877)
• Five Lectures on the City of Rome (1877)
• Monotheism ... the primitive Religion of the City of Rome (1877)
• Ancient Rome and Its Connection with Christian Religion (Part I, 1880; Part II, unfinished at his death)
• The Growing Unbelief of the Educated Classes (1880)
• The Divine Gift of the Sacred Scriptures (1881)
• Safeguards of Divine Faith in the Presence of Sceptics, Atheists, and Free-thinkers (1882)
• A Familiar Study of the Sacred Scripture

Individual poems and songs

• The Church-Bells
• The Fox and the Crow
• The Highland Lassie
• The Italian Pedlar Boy
• The Little Butterfly-Catcher
• Morning, Noon, and Evening (adapted from John Cunningham's Day, a Pastoral)
• The Orphan Beggar
• The Song of the Cormorant
• The Song of the Foxes
• St. Agnes
• The Washing Day

Works about Formby

• "Henry Formby," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)