THE TABLET y l W e e k ly 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 IN CŒ PT IS V E S Ï ΠS CONSTANTER MAN EAT IS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
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New s and No t e s .......... 133 The Holiday B r e a k ......... 137 The Crown of Spain . . . 138 D ina Ferri ...............................1 39 The “ Ex-Monk’s ” Ex-cuse 140 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o .................... 140 R e v ie w s :
De Caussade on Prayer . . . 140 A Jewess and Some
Gentiles ............................ 141 “ Christianity is Catholi
cism ”
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R e v ie w s ( Oontd.) :
The Sqviets’ Children . .. 142 Christendom’s Monastic
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Capital ............................ 142 Books Received ................. 143 New Books and Music . . . 143 Society jfor the Maintenance of thè'Apostolic See . . . 144 The C.lâ.Gv Summer School 144 Catholic Doctors in Con
ference ............................ 145 Catholic Education Notes . . . 146 Coming .E v e n t s ................. 146
R eg is tered at the General P ost Off ic e as a Newspaper
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Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 149 Ch e s s ...........................................150 Et Castera . . . 151 The Oratory S ch oo l ................. 152 Botwell House School . . . 152 London Examination Results 153 Ob it u ary ...............................1 54 The New Church at Paignton 154 Or b is T errarum :
England, Scotland, and Wales ............................ 155
Or b is Terrarum
Ireland
Canada
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Czechoslovakia ................156 Egypt ................157 France ................157 India ................157 Japan ................157 Madagascar ................158 Oceania ............... 158 Palestine ................158 Spain ................158 Switzerland ................160 U.S.A. ............... 160 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 160
NOTANDA “ St. Lubbock’s ” once more. A Tablet Note on next Monday’s Mass-Proper; and a Tablet homily on August’s perils and opportunities (pp. 133, 137).
A “ wholly false and fantastic ” story concerning the Spanish Crown. What will the Daily Express do to its contributor and fo r its readers? (p. 138).
Methodist Union. A Modernist shadow across the path (p. 135).
British Protestantism’s ignoble and short-sighted exploitation o f events in Spain. H ow certain R .T .S . orators at Southampton divided Spanish from Chinese Communism by a watertight bulkhead (p. 136).
Bossuet through de Caussade. The Abbot o f Downside’s noteworthy Introduction to an important new book (p. 140).
A fte r seventy years. The Oratory School takes farewell o f its old constitution, and looks forward with happy confidence to the working o f the new one (p. 152).
Dina Ferri, shepherdess and poet. A sketch o f her brief life, and samples o f her verse (p. 139).
NEW S AND NOTES A UGUST Bank-holiday— the only one of England’s holiday-Mondays which does not synchronize with the morrow o f some great Christian festival— falls this year on the day associated with the Finding o f the Relics of St. Stephen, Protomartyr. W ith the change of natalitia to inventionem, the Mass-Proper is, if we may speak so unliturgically, the Bank-holiday or Boxing-day Proper of December 26, St. Stephen’s more familiar Feast. To talk of Martyrs on August Bank-holiday may have a killjo y ring ; but Catholic holiday-makers can find here a profitable thought. In the days of St. Stephen, a
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martyr did not necessarily mean a Christian who was killed for the Faith. Even as late as the third century, unfaltering witnesses to the Divine Lord were called martyrs. Such witnessing will be the duty of many a Catholic next Monday. To make a bold stand, for example, against the widespread immodesty of these lax days, especially at the seaside, may require a martyr-courage and may lead to a little martyrdom in the death o f a friendship with somebody who will confuse our decency with prudery. Nor is this the only way in which we can witness to our Divine Master. Merely to discountenance profanity or unclean facetiousness is a hard task for the less masterful personalities in a holiday party. But we must be loyal confessors and unashamed ; although nobody is likely to cherish our bones, when we are dead, in jewelled reliquaries and to inscribe our names in a Martyrology.
Germany appears to have come safely through her crisis and there is now a strong feeling in Britain that our own taxpayers must come next on the list of suppliants for help from our statesmen. Unless something drastic is done well before the New Year when our crippling payments o f Income-tax fall due, the 1932 Budget will baffle any Chancellor who may try to tackle it without overturning the credit o f the State. Already we hear of subscriptions being cancelled and of humanitarian movements slowing down for want o f funds. A national testing-time is at hand. Happily, if we face it aright, we can come out of it stronger and better for the o rd ea l ; but only by hard work and sacrifice. Cheery slogans about Old England Muddling Through will not suffice this time.
Mr. Baldwin had a great audience in Knowle Park, Sevenoaks, last Saturday, But he did not make a great speech. Some sentences contradicted others. The Conservatives, he says, “ are carefully examining the question o f encouraging Colonial and Dominion sugar, to find out which will be the best way of dealing with it— by quota or by readjustments of
