Page OFC

THE TABLET

u 4 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 INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

Vol. 159. No. 4,795.

London, April 2, 1932.

Sixpence.

Registered at the General P ost Office as a Newspaper

Page

News and No t e s .................. 429 An Imaginary Mandate . . . 433 Episcopal Engagements 434 Catholic Figures in English

Fiction ............................ 434 Rev iew s :

Rzeczpospolita Polska ... 435 Zeller Revised .................436 Comparative Religion ... 436 Showmen of England . . . 437 Books Received ................. 437 New Books and Music . . . 438

CONTENTS

Page

Notes for Musicians ... 439 Hawkstone Hall . . . . . . 439 Sermons for the Times ... 440 Ch e s s .......................................... 441 Catholic Education Notes . . . 442 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years A g o ............................442 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................445

Page

Ordinations ................ . . . 446 Et Ce t e r a ................ . . . 447 Divorce in Trinidad

Tobago ................ Obituary ................ and . . . 448 . . . 451 W i l l s ............................ . . . 451 Coming E vents . . . 451 Orbis T err arum :

England, Scotland Wales ................ Ireland ................ China ................

and

. . . 452 . . . 452 . . . 453

Orb is Terrarum

France

India

Japan

Oceania

Poland

Page ( Contd.) :

................4 54

................ 454

................4 54

South Africa ................4 54 Spain ................4 56 Uganda ................ 456 U.S.A. ................4 56 Zanzibar ................4 56 Social and P ersonal . . . 456

NOTANDA

Omnia in Christo. A noteworthy “ Sermon fo r the Times ” by the Cardinal Archbishop o f W estminster (p. 440).

D ivorce in Trinidad and Tobago. Some documents and notes. The Colonial Secretary’s opportunity (p. 448).

H o ly W eek in Spain. A Tablet Note-writer comments upon this year’s observances. E l Debate again (p. 431).

Fianna Fail and the Oath. A n imaginary mandate. A Cabinet Minister’s description o f the Cosgrave administration (p. 433).

Malta. Once more The Tablet is compelled to cry Caveat lector! (p. 429).

Mr. Edward Hutton continues his examination o f some Catholic figures in the works o f English novelists. A kick or tw o from Sterne and Smollett; with Fielding in better mood (p. 434).

The H o ly W eek and Easter devotions in Rome. A brief survey by The Tablet’s Correspondent

(p . 445).

A deepened mystery. Mr. Hasloch Potter’s “ Small village in I ta ly ” (p. 431).

NEWS AND NOTES " l ^ n i E N next-door neighbours dwell side by

’ ’ side on terms o f overt unfriendliness or covert suspicion there must be, sooner or later, either a reconciliation or a row. Ita ly and France have co-term inous frontiers in a district which fire-eating Fascists think o f as an Italia Irredenta and where there are old fo lk who remember Nice being called Nizza. Happily, there are signs o f a better understanding between these two powerful neighbours. M. Tardieu, continuing the peace-work o f M. Briand, has delivered an eirenic speech which has been so well received in Rome that polem ical disarmament

N ew S eries. Vol. CXXVII. No. 4,194.

has already begun. I f we were asked to deny the rumour that the H o ly See regards this improvement in Franco-Italian relations with hearty approval we should not be able to do so.

So that a better understanding between Ita ly and France may not be accompanied by a worse feeling between Ita ly and Great Britain, we ask serious men to be most wary in their perusal o f press-telegrams from or concerning Malta. Mischief-makers are hard at work. To show how incredulous the public ought to be, we will give a pair o f up-to-date instances. Two reports o f the same affair lie on our desk as we write. The first (cut from last Wednesday’s Times) declares that, at a meeting on the Language Question in Malta last Tuesday, an orator who attempted to speak in Maltese was forcibly expelled from the hall. But a despatch was simultaneously published in a Paris daily newspaper stating that the refractory speaker attempted to address the University students in English and was hissed fo r doing so. Only a few days before these conflicting messages appeared, many newspapers published a message accusing Signor Giunta, an Italian Under-Secretary o f State who works with II Duce himself, o f having uttered wild and highly provocative words at a meeting o f Italians in Malta. Here again there is a flat contradiction o f testim ony. The Italian Foreign Office explicitly and officially denies that Signor Giunta made the remarks attributed to him. W e fear that Maltese “ news ” is getting back to its old, bad ways.

T oo many men and women who account them selves good Catholics evade the hearing o f sermons. They frequent Masses at which there is no preaching, and they rarely or never hear the Pastoral o f their Bishop. This is un-Catholic behaviour. Our “ Fathers in God ” and their preacher delegates, the parish priests, are our teachers from whose lessons we must not play truant. To all readers o f this Note, and especially those who heard no Lenten preaching this year, we commend earnestly a study o f Cardinal Bourne’s Easter discourse, which is