THE TABLET
y i W e e k ly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM V O B IS GRATULAMUR ANIM OS ET IA M ADDIMUS UT IN IN C C E PT IS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 157. No. 4,746.
London, A pril 25, 1931.
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N ew s and No t e s ................ 541 Domus Super A renam . . . 545 Zulu Natives and the C hant 547 R e v ie w s :
The Cardinal of L o rra in e 548 “ N unquam ” 548 I n Sarsfield’s Days . . . 549 O u ts tan d in g Novels . . . 550 New Books and Music . . . 550 Books Received ................... 552 E p is c o pa l E ngagements 552
CONTENTS
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A Year’s C.T.S. W o rk . . . 553 A Catenian F e a s t ................... 553 Obituary ............................... 554 Mr. T. M. H e a l y ................... 554 Correspondence :
Rome (O u r Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly L e tte r from ) ............................... 557 Ampleforth College Scholar
ships
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E t Ct e t e r a ............................... 559 Catholic Education Notes . . . 560 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................... 561
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Coming E v ents ................... 561 The Fellowship of Lourdes 562 SherrifFs O f f i c e r s ................... 562 Letters to the E d itor :
An Appeal fo r S tudent
P i l g r i m s ............................... 562 “ H a rd y A n n u a l s ” . . . 562 The Casa D i S. B rig id a 562 Orbi s Terrarum :
England, Scotland, and Wales ............................... 563 I r e la n d ............................... 564 Belgium ............................... 564
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Or b is Terrarum ( Oontd.) :
B u rm a
Canada
C h ina
F ran ce
In d ia
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J a p a n N igeria
Oceania
P a le stin e
P an am a
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Hazel Grove. The New
Church
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Social and P ersonal . . . 568
NOTANDA Britain’s domestic politics. Can Old Parliamentary Hands handle the country’s new problems? (p. 541).
Spain. In four columns of print, a Tablet publicist examines the actual situation (p. 545).
A Catholic tribute to a Protestant journalist. The late Thomas Pulvertaft’s good work on the Record (p. 543).
Church music. Father Martindale, S.J., shows what is being done, with striking success, to develop the liturgical sense among the Catholic Zulus in Natal. Why the natives of Mbogintwini wanted “ the boy Ambrose Zuke ” (p. 547).
“ Unobtrusive Co-operators ” and their appeal for £5,000. A Revised Version (p. 542).
Disquieting facts about the spread of “ Nudism ” in England. A friendly hint to the Regnalites (p. 544).
“ Converted” chapels. A Note on the turning of derelict Nonconformist chapels into Catholic churches (p. 543).
NEWS AND NOTES A LTHOUGH not so spectacular as what some foreign lands can show just now, the political situation in Great Britain is most grave. Twelve weeks from to-day, the borrowing powers of the Unemployment Insurance Fund will be exhausted. Once again a futile Vote of Censure on the Government has been moved in the House of Commons by Mr. Baldwin ; and once again the minority Government has been saved by Liberal votes. Meanwhile, we are very much afraid that the atmosphere of Parliament has a bemusing effect upon all three parties. Our statesmen do not seem to know how deeply they are disappointing the nation. Last week’s Censure Motion discouraged innumerable •citizens who have hitherto defended the party system and our parliamentary institutions. “ One
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more sham light ” was the description of it given in our hearing. We all know th a t a loss of Eastern markets has come on top of a world-wide depression, and therefore we are not asking miracles of our leaders. We do, however, blame them for not facing vital problems which cannot be dodged much longer, such as the Dole and National Expenditure. The cost of living is now officially given as 47 per cent, over the cost in July, 1914. That is to say, a housewife to-day needs twelve shillings and threepence to buy what she could have bought for eight shillings and fourpence just before the War. We suspect, however, that the official estimate is too pessimistic. Our own enquiries reveal so many things at 1914 prices that we hesitate to believe the ratio of 147 to 100. Wellinformed and plucky action by an ad hoc union of all parties could achieve a deflation very helpful to our trade and finance without hurting anybody : but Ministers and their critics are apparently content to go on playing the flippant game of “ tactics ” to select audiences of partisan admirers.
Catholics are in disgrace in certain Protestant circles (e.g., the Holborn Review) for not identifying themselves unreservedly with the campaign against the opening of picture-theatres on Sundays. The dispute is one in which Catholics enjoy considerable latitude of opinion. While Papists do not hold extreme views of Sunday observance, many of us would like to see our people spending Sunday night otherwise than at “ the pictures.” But there’s a long, long way to go before Housing in England can reach the stage at which it will be reasonable to declare that all families ought to spend Sunday evenings round their own hearth. At present, the one sitting-room of many a family is also the cooking-room and living-room ; so that, when boys and girls grow up to be youths and maidens, they can hardly ever invite a friend to come in and spend an hour. To dawdle about the streets is fatiguing ; and the parks are no good in bad weather. The Protestant chapels, whose pastors and elders take the lead in enforcing Sunday
