THE TABLET
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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
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News and No t e s ................. 509 Alfonso the Fearful . . . 513 Our Lady of Albert (1916
1931)
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A Good Friday Pageant . . . 514 The Vatican and Spain . . . 515 Reviews :
The Education of Demos 515 The Church in Japan . . . 516 Archbishop Leighton . . . 516 “ With No Suburbs” . . . 516 “ Publicism ” 518 Some April Numbers . . . 518 Karl Adam Goes On . . . 519
C O N T E N T S
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New Books and Music . . . 520 Books Received ................. 520 The Cause of Father Pernet 521 Ireland’ s Early Monastic
Schools ............................521 Catholic Education Notes 522 Coming Events ................. 522 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 525 Presentation to Monsignor
Howlett ............................527 “ Friends of Italy ” in
Audience ............................ 527
Another Catholic Chapel
Page for Edinburgh ................. 527 Et Cheterà ............................528 Letters to the Editor : Women’s Work ................. 529
Dr. Temple’s Broadcast 529 Obituary ............................ 530 Orbis Terrarum:
England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 530 Ireland ............................ 531 Australia ............................ 531 Burma ............................531 France ............................ 532 Holland ............................ 532
Orbis Terrarum (Oontd.) :
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Hungary ......................... 532 India ......................... 532 Japan ......................... 533 Malay Peninsula . .. 534 Morocco ......................... 534 Russia ......................... 534 Switzerland .............. 535 Trinidad ......................... 535 U.S.A. ......................... 535 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ......................... 536 W il l s ......................... 536 Social and P ersonal . . . 536 Ch e s s .................................... 536
NOTANDA
Next week’s Feast o f St. George. Deliverance from dragons (p. 509).
King A l fo n so ’ s departure from Spain and the reasons fo r it. A Tablet leader-writer makes a few interim remarks (p. 513).
Good Friday in the city o f Saint Francis. Father Cuthbert, O.S.F.C., tells how the faithful o f Assisi express their devotion to the Dead Christ and the Mater Dolorosa (p. 514).
The late Bishop Galton, S.J. A disaster at Georgetown recalled (pp. 528, 530).
“ Let him ridicule Catholics.” The inner history o f an Evening Standard cartoon (p. 510).
H oly Week outside the Catholic Church. H ow Protestants have kept it this year in England (p. 512).
Mr. Gandhi’s threat to Christian Missions in India. A n American Methodist’s fine rejoinder (p. 511).
A happy day fo r the Bridgettines in Rome. The restoration to the Order o f the ancient house in which St. Brigida lived and died (p. 525).
The Little Sisters o f the Assumption: their Founder (p. 521), and a Note concerning their work (p. 512).
NEWS AND NOTES W E are within five days of the Feast of Saint George, England’s patron. Times without number, we and other patriotic writers have chided Englishmen for lagging behind Irishmen and Scotsmen and Welshmen in this matter of a Patron’s Feast. To-day, we shall not repeat those chidings. We appeal, however, for a good Saint George’s Day. In the past, England has linked her Saint mostly with victories on battlefields. As long ago as the twelfth century, it was gratefully believed that
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Saint George, astride a milk-white horse, had given help to our first King Edward at the siege of Acre ; and even those sceptics who dismiss the Acre story as fiction are not able to deny that the Dover Patrol set out for Zeebrugge, on St. George’s Day thirteen years ago, in answer to their leader’s grand signal “ St. George for England.” But we must not think that a Patron Saint is to be invoked only for the success of military or naval operations. England’s enemies at this moment are not lining trenches and manning batteries. We are confronted by such foes as indifference to God, over-eagerness for pleasure, deafness to the calls o f duty, softness where there ought to be hardness, and b y widespread selfishness. These are the dragons which ravage our fatherland; and it is against such devastating' monsters that we must remember St. George and cry Adsit pro Anglia. Fervid nationalists are already exhorting us not to forget the wearing of roses next Thursday. We hope that many a rose will be seen in the streets. But especially do we hope that there will be large companies in our churches to begin St. George’s Day by hearing Mass and by praying for England’s deliverance.
A “ Truce of God ” was observed throughout Czechoslovakia for Easter-tide. This Truce was solemnly proclaimed in the Parliament-House of Prague and it lasted for three days. During that time, the newspapers excluded contentious articles and letters. At public meetings, the speakers refrained from controversy and confined themselves to constructive expositions of humanitarian policies. In the hope that a similar Truce o f God may be adopted by the Governments and inhabitants of other countries, the Prague example is to be commended by Red Cross and other international organizations.
As a climax to events fraught with grave warnings for the too confident rulers of some other countries, King Alfonso X I I I is no longer on Spanish soil.
