THE TABLET
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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCXEPTIS V E S TR IS 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 .........165 Germany's General Election 169 Fountains Abbey ................. 170 The Vatican Gradual,
Twenty-Five Years After 171 Catholic Figures in English
Fiction ............................ 172 The Abolition of Slavery . . 174 R e v i e w s :
The Self-Satisfied Age . . . 174 The Prophets ................. 175 Grenada ............................ 175 Tales Worth Telling . . . 175 Four Quarterlies . . . 176 The School of Garcia I I 176
C O N T E N T S
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Coming Events ................. 176 New Books and Music . . . 177 Catholic Impressions of the
B.M.A. Centenary . . . 178 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 178 Corsespondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 181 Catholic Education Notes . . . 182 Et Cætera ............................ 184 Letters to the Editor :
“ B ishop” or “ D octor” 185 Retreats and the Liturgy 185 René Bazin’s Last Book 185
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“ Dadda’Idri ”
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Fountains Abbey . . . 185 “ Adopting” the Heathen . . . 186 Worcestershire Eucharistic
Congress ............................ 186 Obituary ......................... 186 Wardley ......................... 187 Salford at Lourdes; also
Nottingham ................. 187 “ England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales ” .............. 187 Ch e s s ....................................... 187* 0 rb 1s Terrarum :
England ............................ 188 Ireland ............................ 188 Scotland ......................... 188
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Or b is T errarum : Wales ............................ 188
Canada ............................ 189 China ............................ 189 France ............................ 189 Germany ............................ 190 Holland ............................ 190 Natal 190 Poland ............................ 190 Portugal .............. . . . 190 Portuguese West Africa 190 Spain 190 The Sudan 192 Zululand ............................ 192 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 192 Books Received ................. 192
NOTANDA How K ing Manoel’s remains were received by his people (p. 165).
A set-back fo r Herr Hitler. The importance o f Catholics in German politics (p. 169).
A fte r five and twenty years. The position and prospects o f the Vatican Gradual (p. 171).
Fountains Abbey. “ James the Least ” pens an Open Letter to the Protestant Bishop o f Ripon (p. 170)._
Catholic men and women according to the Kingsleys, R. D. Blackmore, J. H. Shorthouse and George Meredith. Mr. Edward Hutton completes a survey (p. 172).
H ow convents in Europe have “ adopted ” particular areas o f foreign missionary effort (p. 186).
A Catholic physician on the Centenary meetings o f the British Medical Association (p. 178).
W h y Titular Bishops do not visit their Sees (p. 184).
A first-hand account o f René Bazin’s last book (p. 185).
“ Twopenny frauds.” An important case (p. 166).
NEWS AND NOTES /\ FUNERAL and a death are the themes of our opening Notes in this holiday week. Yet there shall be nothing macabre in our words. “ Nothing is here for tears.”
Mgr. Seipel, who was Chancellor o f Austria in cruel days, has passed to his reward. When our “ Orbis Terrarum ” columns, only a few weeks ago, chronicled the invalid’s removal to a sanatorium, we feared he had not long to live. To the dolours of an organic malady was added the strain o f a bullet in the lungs which could not be extracted when Mgr. N ew S e r ie s . Vol. CXXVIII. No. 4,212.
Seipel made a partial recovery from an attempt upon his life eight years ago. This brave Catholic priest, o f holy life and frugal habits, will survive in history as a wise and strong and absolutely disinterested statesman who was not only a patriotic Austrian, but also a good European. After his pains and toils, may he rest in peace.
“ Ave, Portugal! ” A little nation o f great gentlemen has borne itself grandly on an occasion to which certain other peoples would not have risen with dignity and magnanimity. The remains o f King Manoel have been received in his old capital with all the respect due to the bearer o f a great name who had loved his country dearly and served her well. We do not hear of one jarring note. Both at the quay-side and in the streets o f Lisbon, vast crowds comported themselves with decorum in presence of the solemn train. The President of the Republic was in the church o f St. Vincent for the rites over the body o f Portugal’s last King, and the sermon (preached by a Canon o f the Oporto Chapter) was broadcast throughout the land. We are proud to add that our own country took a full share in these edifying proceedings. One of His Britannic Majesty’s warships bore the late King’s mortal remains from England to Portugal ; and it was on the shoulders o f eight British sailors that the coffin was carried from the ship to rest at last on Portuguese soil.
In Mr. John Kensit’s organ, the Churchman’s Magazine, are found these lines :
We have no doubt that Manoel was a good man and, had he been undivided in his allegiance to Portugal, would have proved a real help to that country. We venture to say that the reason why King George enjoys such immense popularity in Great Britain is because he is a Protestant. On the taste of this passage we leave the public (not excepting Sir Thomas Inskip) to judge. But as we ourselves were in Portugal on the day o f King Manoel’s accession to the Throne, and also for a
