THE TABLET
A W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius I X to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 157. No. 4,742. L o n d o n , M a r c h 28, 1931.
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R eg is tered at th e General Post Of f ic e as a Newspaper
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News and No t e s .................. 413 Ne Cede Malis .................417 “ The Thursday of the New
Commandment ” ................. 418 University Notes ................. 419 Prom The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................420 Rev ie w s :
Two Views of Christianity 420 Mecca ............................421 Pankhurstiana .................421 The Civil Service................. 421 Outstanding Novels . . . 422 Books Received ................ 422
CONTENTS
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New Books and Music . . . 423 In parasceve. . . . Tonus evangelii ad libitum . . . 424 Obituary .............................. 425 W i l l s .......................................... 425 Catholic Education Notes . . . 426 Hoxton’s Campion Institute 427 Blessed Philip Howard . . . 427 Ch e s s .......................................427 Correspondence :
(Rome, Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................429
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Et Ce t e r a .............................. 432 “ W. H. K.” ............................ 432 Letters to the Editor :
Dr. Eisler’s “ Bombshell ” 433 Catholics in Regimental
Bands ............................ 433 Orb i s T err arum :
England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 433 Ireland ............................ 434 Belgium ............................435 China ............................435 Czechoslovakia .................436
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Orbis Terrarum (Oontd.) :
France ............................436 Germany ............................436 I t a l y ....................................... 436 Kenya Colony .................437 New Zealand .................437 Poland ............................ 438 South Africa ................. 438 Spain 440 Venezuela ............................440 Good Friday at Westminster 440 Social and Personal . . . 440
N O T A N D A Threescore years and ten. A Tablet leaderwriter dwells on the secret o f Cardinal Bourne’ s influence and success (p. 417).
Next week’s solemn ceremonies. A page o f plain chant, with the Gospel-tone ad libitum fo r the ending o f the Passion according to St. John (p. 424).
An eye-witness recalls the Washing o f Feet by the late Emperor Francis Joseph o f Austria (p. 418).
A foul murder in Ireland. What the Irish clergy have said about it (p. 416).
Some notes on recent happenings in the University o f Cambridge by The Tablet’s own Correspondent (p. 419).
A ray o f sunshine from the Midlands. The outlines o f a new scheme fo r settling land-hungry men upon the land (p. 415).
“ W . H. K .” Father Kent’s Golden Jubilee. An honour from the Sovereign Pontiff (p. 432).
W ill the B.B.C. purge Savoy Hill o f proMuscovites? A regrettable affair (p. 415).
A story o f Papal Avignon. Mr. Cunliffe Owen’s new book (p. 422).
Kinangop. A cross erected and a Mass sung 13,000 feet above sea-level (p. 437).
NEWS AND NOTES / 'W U R liturgical notes during this year’s Lent ^ have been mostly concerned with the Saturdays. Next Saturday— Holy Saturday— is one of the most remarkable days in the Christian Year for its liturgical and ceremonial interest. Instead of drawing any particular lesson for the times from the prayers and prophecies of Holy Saturday, we simply repeat our advice that everybody who is able to do so will give up the morning to the work of ending Lent well, in the very words of the Liturgy. There are scores of thousands of Catholics in London, and many thousands in other cities, who have never
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repaired to church on a Holy Saturday morning in time for the kindling of the New Fire, who have never heard the superb chant Exultet jam angelica, who have never followed the procession to the font, singing “ Like as the hart pants for the water brooks,” and who have never known that radiant moment when the bells ring and the organ peals, and the statues are unveiled, and the lamps are lit at Gloria in excelsis Deo. We grant that the reading of the Prophecies is a strain upon those who are unused to long ceremonies, but they are less formidable in practice than they are on the pages of a Holy Week Book. The financial straitness now prevailing will make many an urban person ask dolefully where he is to go and what he is to do next Saturday, but an enforced stay in town can be for Catholics not a boredom, but a glorious morning of spiritual privilege.
Now that it is over, the by-election in the St. George’s division of Westminster can be discussed, within certain limits, by this Catholic and therefore non-political paper. Honestly believing that the Conservative Party in Great Britain is not fully discharging its patriotic duty under the leadership of Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Sir Ernest Petter, a man of business, stepped forward as an anti-Baldwinite Conservative. We have good reason for crediting Sir Ernest with the best of motives as well as with complete sincerity. But he was not allowed to fight a straight fight against a pro-Baldwinite, or official, Conservative candidate. Those unheavenly twins Lord Beaverbrook and Lord Rothermere made Sir Ernest’s cause their own. For some time, resentment has been growing against the usurpations of these two newspaper peers, who use their widely-circulated journals to make and unmake both party policies and party leaders. In the Midlands and in the North, rank-and-file Conservatives are astonished that London and the South should accept so much interference from a brace of newspaper proprietors. Mr. Huff Cooper, who was chosen as the standard-bearer of official Conservatism against the Independent Conservative
