THE TABLET y l W e ek 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 INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4, 1870.
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News and No t e s .................. 261 The National Government 265 From The Tablet of Ninety-
Years A g o .............. ... 266 The “ Protestant Truth ”
Society ............................ 266 An Ulster Man on Catholics 266 A Church in Pittsburgh . . . 267 Blessed John W a l l ................. 270 Flood-lighting of Westmin
ster Cathedral .................272
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R ev iew s : Mother McAuley’s Founda
Page tion ............................ 272 Mental Defectives and...
Others ............................272 The Real Luther.................273 “ A.M.” 274 A11 Anglican on Marriage 274 Books Received ................. 274 New Books and Music ... 275 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................277
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Catholic Education Notes ... 278 W i l l s .......................................... 279 Et C e t e r a .............................. 280 Obituary ............................281 L etters to the Editor :
Trent and the Last Supper 282 “ Discontinuity ” at War
rington ............................282 Ad Sacerdotes .................282 St. Anthony’s Secondary
School Results .................282 Coming Events .................. 283
Orb is Terrarum:
England, Scotland Wales .............. Ireland .............. China .............. France .............. Holland .............. India Italy .............. Palestine .............. Poland .............. Spain Yugoslavia..............
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“ Ex-Monk ” Ouseley Social and P ersonal Ch e s s ............................ .. 288 .. 288 .. 288
NOTANDA
A busy week in Britain’s domestic politics. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s third or “ N a t ion a l” Ministry (p. 265).
Mr. Henderson as the Labour Leader. A Tablet Note-writer’s warning. Some Daily Herald statements examined (p. 262).
Church architecture in the U .S .A . Three photographs o f Carlton Strong’s masterpiece at Pittsburgh, with a commentary by “ Tames the Least ” (p. 267).
W hat is a b igot? Sir Henry Lunn’s disdain fo r le m ot ju s te (p . 263).
A n Ulster Protestant’s first contacts with Catholics. W hat “ Historicus ” o f the Methodist Times saw fifty years ago (p. 266).
Cardinal Newman. An Anglican preacher’s dimeyed view o f a memorable conversion (p. 264).
Blessed John Wall. The Archbishop o f Birmingham’s sermon at the annual pilgrimage to Harvington (p. 270).
Denbighshire and Darlington. A contrast in L .E .A . methods when opposing a proposed Catholic school (p . 278).
NEWS AND NOTES T HOSE o f the faithful-— they include layfolk, as well as clerks— who regularly use an Ordo Recitandi are confronted at the end o f August by the reminder “ Incipit Pars Autumnalis.” In this our present year o f grace and o f griefs, 1931, it would be cruel to say “ the Summer is ended ” ; because it has not begun in these Unfortunate Isles. Still, the Breviary “ Incipit ” fo r Autumn brings us face to face with the fact that, for most o f us, the holidays are over and that we are once again in full presence o f our duties. It is appropriate that this annual call should come to us at the moment when a great change in our country’s political and administrative life urgently demands corresponding changes in our individual habits. Of late years, there has been a tendency to prolong the vacation unreasonably and to put off the settling down to hard work until Michaelmas. This easy-going practice has encouraged the growth o f slackness and has also been frightfully expensive. Therefore we find ground for thankfulness in the fact that our nation has had to deal with a grave crisis in the usually blank month o f August.
Although prosaic readers may scout the lines which we are about to write as too fanciful, we cannot help saying that the bustle in London and the unwonted quiet on the grouse-moors is a good augury. The College o f Augurs in Rome, who were originally called not Augurs but Auspices, based their prophecies on the carefully-observed flights o f birds. It was from what birds did or refrained from doing that the Augurs drew auspicious or inauspicious conclusions o f solemn importance to the State. The inhabitants o f Christendom escaped long ago from such magic and superstition; and yet a message does indeed come to us this year from the birds on the halfdeserted moorlands. Not so long ago, our pessimists were telling us that no national emergency, short o f another Great War would be able to deflect Englishmen from their sports and pastimes. We fear this is still true o f millions o f our people, in all grades o f society ; but it is at least one step forward that our statesmen o f all parties have promptly and willingly accepted the reversal o f their ingrained habits and the overturn o f their cherished plans. Let the people at large be equally in earnest and Britain will come out o f this trouble stronger than ever before. The country no more belongs to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald or Mr. Baldwin or the Marquess o f Reading than to any other individual Briton. The sense o f responsibility displayed by the new Ministers must be emulated by every man and woman among us.
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