THE TABLET A W eek ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v i ew

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1S70.

V o l . 159. N o . 4,796.

L o n d o n , A p r i l 9, 1932.

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New s and No t e s .................. 461 “ Vaughan of The Tablet ” 465 “ A Friendly Remonstrance” 466 In Spain ............................ 466 Herbert Cardinal Vaughan 467 Why Girls’ Clubs, and Why Rangers? .................469 R e v i e w s :

The Beginnings of Irish

Monasticism ................. 470 Angelus Silesius ................. 470

CONTENTS

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R e v i e w s (Oontd.) : Outstanding Novels— L II 472 Red Sky at Morning . . . 472 Books Received ................. 473 New Books and Music . . . 474 Christus Rex 474 Correspondence : .

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 477 Coming Events ................. 478 E t C/etera .............................. 479 Catholic Education Notes . . . 480

School Sports

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. . . 480

Educational Progress at

Finchley ............. . . . 481 Ch e s s .......................... . . . 482 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years Ago

. . . 482

The New Church at Saltley 482 Ob it u ary .............. . . . 482 Or b is T eerarum :

England, Scotland and Wales ......................... 483

Or b i s T e r r a r um (Oontd.) :

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Ireland . . . .............. 483 Canada ............................ 484 Colombia ............................ 484 Czechoslovakia ................. 484 Fiji 486 France ............................ 486 Japan 486 Siam . . . 486 Straits Settlements . . . 486 Tristan da Cunha . . . 488 Yugoslavia 488 The Low Week Reception 488 Social, and P ersonal. . . . 488

NOTANDA

The centenary o f Cardinal Vaughan’s birth. His long and active connection with The Tablet. Tw o portraits (pp. 465, 467, 479).

Southern Ireland and the Oath o f Allegiance. A telegram from Australia (p. 483).

The L ow Week Reception. Some names from the company present last Tuesday evening at A rch bishop’ s House (p. 488).

Religion in Liverpool. A candid Protestant’s rebuke to some o f his associates (p. 464).

Mass on the island o f Tristan da Cunha. A touching story (p. 488).

Strange talk at an Easter Conference o f the Wesley Guild (p. 463).

Catholic social work fo r girls. Miss Segar emphasises the importance o f clubs and Ranger companies (p. 469).

H ow Britain could help Austria. A source o f timber supplies (p. 461).

“ A Wandering Scot ” on an Anglican claim. The Church o f England not the Church o f the Empire (p. 466).

Kensal New Town. A jubilee note (p. 479).

NEWS AND NOTES T HE hundredth anniversary o f his birth has called fo r extensive mention o f Cardinal Vaughan in this week’s issue o f The Tablet. As this great churchman was still teaching and ruling the faithful as recently as nine and twenty years ago, the moment has not come fo r appraising his lifework in detail ; and therefore our two articles about the third Archbishop of Westminster are tributes of admiration rather than critical studies. The See of Westminster, which is practically though not nominally primatial, has been happy in its four Ordinaries, every one o f whom has been honoured

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as a Prince o f the H oly Roman Church. When we glance round us at the ecclesiastical confusion prevailing outside the Catholic Church we ought to be more grateful than we are for the solidarity o f our Episcopate and for the signal worth of its successive leaders.

Efforts are being made to save the Danubian States from a smash which would be grave for all Europe. As a Conference to this end has only just begun its deliberations in London, it is to o early to discuss the problem and the suggested solutions in detail. We may allude, however, t o Austria. Before the fall of the Habsburgs, the old “ Eastmark,” or Austria Proper, might have been called the "H om e Counties” of Vienna, an imperial city whence 50,000,000 subjects of the Austrian Kaiser were ruled. To-day, the total population o f Austria is less than 7,000,000; and nearly 2,000,000 o f these live in Vienna. Such a state o f things is uneconomic. Happily, the little Republic, which is no bigger than Scotland, has large natural resources ; and this fact leads us to make a practical suggestion. About 38 per cent, o f Austria’s to ta l square-mileage is covered with forests, mainly pine-forests, and large stocks o f felled (and even sawn) timber are in hand. Why should not our Government, if it be indeed glowing with kindness towards the Danubian States, take steps to divert from the hostile Soviet Republics a large part o f the timber-trade which Britain now transacts with Russia ? Later on, we may be able to meet our requirements from Canadian and other Empire fo r e s ts ; but meanwhile the Austrian timber lies within a mere thousand miles of England, and larger purchases of it would help a plucky and friendly little State whose people were drawn into the Great War against their will. Austria was our adversary in the field, but never our enemy in her heart. No doubt we shall be told by the Anglo-Russian timber profiteers that we are talking nonsense; that Austrian timber is not suitable fo r British needs ; that, as Austria no longer has a sea-port, freights would be prohibitive ;