THE TABLET s i Weekly N ew spaper a n d R eview
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V ol. 160. No. 4,811-
London, J uly 23, 1932.
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News and Notes . . . . . . 101 “ Unblushing Romanism ” 105 Catholic Figures in English
Fiction ............................ 106 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ....................108 R e v ie w s :
Disappointing ............. 108 Irish Bacon ............. 109 A Breton Pastoral . . . 109
CONTENTS
R e v ie w s {OorUd.) :
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Gaels in Gaul ................. 110 The Tears of the Heliades 110 New Books and Music . . . I l l Books Received ................. 112 A Show at Foyle’ s ................. 113 The Church’ s Outlook in
India
113
A Broken Staff ................. 114 The New Belgian Church in
London ............................ 115
CORRESPONDENCE :
Rome ( Our Own Corre
Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 117 Thirty-one New Missionaries 118 Et C.ETERA 119 Catholic Education Notes . . . 120 Ch e s s ....................................... 121 W i l l s 122 The Catholic Record Society 122 Ordination at Oxford . . . 122 Coming E vents ................. 122
Or b i s T errarum :
England, Scotland Wales .............. Ireland .............. Australia .............. China .............. France .............. India .............. Oceania .............. Peru .............. Uganda .............. So c ia l and P ersonal
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In the Braes of Lochaber 128
NOTANDA The kaleidoscope o f politics. Changes in Germany, Italy and other lands (pp. 101, 102).
“ Unblushing Romanism.” A Tablet leaderwriter’ s friendly request that Low Church Anglicans shall cease using a glaring misnomer for “ Anglo - Catholicism,” Romanism’s explicit adversary (p. 105).
Catholic Arts and Crafts. The recent exhibition at Foyle’ s Gallery (p. 113).
Non-Catholics and the Dublin Congress. Handsome words from Irish Methodists and an odious article in the English Record (pp. 102, 124).
Sport as a religion and an ethical code. An ugly sidelight upon an exaggerated claim (p. 104).
“ Merry children and no hungry people.” A Protestant minister on Soviet Russia (p. 103).
Continuing his examination o f Catholic characters as depicted in English fiction, Mr. Edward Hutton draws material from the work o f Charlotte Bronte, Borrow, and Trollope (p. 106).
For reference. A full page list records, for the reader, particulars o f many recent publications, religious and secular (p. 112).
NEW S AND NOTES 1\TOT only British eyes are turned to Ottawa.
^ All the nations are eager to know whether its component States will succeed in making the Commonwealth self-sufficient. So varied are the Empire’s resources and so vast are its potential markets that it could easily be made into a selfcontained economic unity. It is not our desire, however, to shut ourselves up within the high walls o f Empire tariffs and keep aloof from other peoples. The ideal o f many British statesmen is still Free Trade ; but all save a diehard minority o f them are now convinced that trade is not truly
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free so long as a nation which discards protective imposts meets with tariff rebuffs at every seaport her ships may enter. The Imperial Conference will be so authentically Imperialist that no State which does not cherish the Imperial connection will have any moral right to be present ; but it will not be Imperialist in an Isolationist and antiinternational sense.
It becomes more and more difficult for weekly newspapers to review current politics. What is called “ the situation ” changes day by day. One morning last week, many French journals announced the death of the Cartel ; but by Sunday evening they were testifying to its resurrection. In England, more than one publicist predicted confidently that a truce in the Anglo-Irish tariff-war was certain ; yet Mr. de Valera returned from his one-day visit to London more intransigent than before. As for the Lausanne Accords, M. Herriot has told the Chamber of Deputies plainly that they will not be presented for ratification until those Powers which are both creditors in Europe and debtors in the U.S.A. have completed some satisfactory arrargement. By the word satisfactory,” he means tf at France must not disburse more than she receives. Si me observers tell us that the United States will be forced to abandon their isolationist policy and to recognize the fact that they cannot cut themselves off from the Old World. Others reply that such an abandonment o f isolation will not be seen until months after next November’s Presidential Election, which is too long to wait. In short, The Tablet is confirmed in its belief that extensive comments on foreign affairs are a waste of ink or breath at present. Nine days hence, we shall know what are the ingredients o f the new Reichstag ; and so long as we lack that knowledge we are groping in the dark.
Briand’s idea of a Pan-European Entente, or United States c f Europe, cannot be realized so as to include Soviet Russia ; and perhaps it must also exclude a Hitlerite Germany, fo r the simple reason
