THE TABLET

A W e e k ly N ew spaper a n d R eview

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMCR ANIMOS ETI AM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

V ol. 160. No. 4,809.

L o n d o n , Ju l y 9, 1932.

S ix p e n c e .

R egistered at the General P ost Office as a Newspaper.

X iw s AXD No t e s .............. Page 37 A Conversion 41 Dom Perignon’s Discovery 42 Coming Events 43 R eviews :

Abbot Marmion sons

Konnersrenth of Mared

The Last of the : Paladins 45 New Books and Music . . . 46 Books Received 46 Obituary 47 W i l l s .............. 47

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CONTENTS

Death o f King Manoel of

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Portugal ......................... 48 Society of St. Augustine . . . 49 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years A g o ......................... 49 Cardinal Vaughan’ s Cen­

tenary ......................... 50 The Catholic Episcopate . . . 51 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 53 Cardinal Lauri in London 54

St. Edmund’s House, Cam­

Page bridge ......................... 54 ScnooL Sports .............. 54 Et Cæ t e r a ......................... 55 Catholic Education Notes . . . 56 Hammond-Kensit - Limbrick 57 Catholic Doctors and the

British Medical Association .................................... 58 The Great Academies at

S ton yhurst......................... 58 Orbis Terrarum:

England, Scotland, and Wales ......................... 58

Orbrs Terrarum ( Oontd.)

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Ireland ......................... 60 Austria ......................... 60 Brazil .......................... 60 France ......................... 60 China ......................... 61 Czechoslovakia .............. 61 Germany ......................... 61 I n d i a ..................................... 61 Japan ......................... 62 Malta 62 Spain ......................... 62 Switzerland 62 U.S.A..........................................62 Social and P ersonal . . . 64 Ch e s s ..................................... 64

NOTANDA King Manoel o f Portugal. Cardinal Bourne and the late Monarch’s parish priest pay tribute to the memory o f a true Catholic (p. 48).

The Conversion o f the Five-per-cents. A Tablet leader-writer urges a wider application o f the conversion principle (p. 41).

Cardinal Vaughan’s centenary. The com memoration at Westminster Cathedral. Herbert Vaughan’s foundations— in particular the Converts’ A id Society (p. 50).

In a first pastoral letter, his lordship the Bishop o f Nottingham commends himself and his episcopate to the prayers o f his flock (p. 51).

Catholic disabilities in the U .S .A . The bar to Mr. A lfred Smith’s nomination (p. 40).

The Cross and the Chalice. A ritual development among the Primitive Methodists (p. 40).

Mr. Hammond’s incomplete story. The “ Great Protestant Demonstration ” against the Dublin Congress (p. 57).

Another “ escaped nun.” The brief platform career o f the self-confessed maker o f “ a tissue o f l ie s ” (p. 62).

NEWS AND NOTES W ARNING is hereby given that a campaign is preparing in anti-Catholic circles against the present rulers of Portugal. The new Ministry, with Dr. de Oliviera Salazar at its head, has been formed for reasons which have nothing to do with what Monarchists would call the Demise o f the Crown if Portugal were actually a Kingdom. The Salazar Ministry has come into office through the working o f factors with which the question of Monarchism has nothing to do. I f party politics could be suspended, the new Prime Minister would be acclaimed by all serious Portuguese citizens as

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the best man for the task o f economic reconstruction ; but politicians o f the bad Affonso Costa type still abound in Portugal and they will intrigue (with or without furtive Spanish help) against Dr. Salazar, because he is not only a wise and upright statesman but also a loyal and fervent Catholic. W ith this note in their minds, newspaper-readers will be fore-armed with caution.

Few men have been more meanly treated than was Dom Manoel o f Braganga, thirty-fifth King of Portugal, who died suddenly last Saturday, at his English home. The writer o f this Note was in Portugal on the day when Manoel, through the assassination of the King and the Crown Prince, became King. As Duke o f Beja and as a midshipman the boy Manoel— he wras only nineteen years old— knew that he lacked both a general experience o f life and the specialized education fo r kingship which had been given to his brother, the Crown Prince. Therefore he said modestly and frankly on the day o f his accession : ‘ ‘ Be my friends and give me your counsels.” But most of the politicians who pretended to be his friends were his enemies ; or, rather, enemies o f the Monarchy. They gave him advice in plenty ; but it was advice cruelly and cleverly calculated to be the Throne’s undoing. Instead o f promoting a National Government, they advised the young ruler, again and again, to entrust the administration o f Portugal and the safety of her ancient Crown to “ Liberal ” Ministries o f the bad old factious and illiberal type, which played into the hands o f the Republicans. The result was the fall o f the Monarchy and the establishment of an out-of-date, Frenchified, anti-Catholic, persecuting Republic, with the bombastic Theophilo Braga for President. Happily the Portuguese Republic existing in 1932 is a very different regime, respectful to religion and truly concerned with the welfare o f the people. But we repeat that the treatment of the young King, more than twenty years ago, was mean in the extreme. Cunning schemers succeeded