THE TABLET y l W eek 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 VESTR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 160. No. 4,817.
L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 3 , 1932.
S i x p e n c e .
R eg is tered at the General P ost Of f i c e as a New s pape r .
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News and No t e s ................. 293 Idle H a n d s ............................. 297 A Sea Pilgrimage in St.
Columba’s W a k e ................. 298 Remnants of Catholic Dis
abilities ............................ 299 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 300 R eview s :
The Origins of Israel . . . 301
CONTENTS
Reviews ( Contd.) :
Some Sculptures o f the
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Day ............................ 301 Dante ............................ 302 44 Germany’s Second
Apostle ” ............................ 302 The Cistercians ................. 303 St. Joan’s Birthplace . . . 304 Books Received ................. 304 New Books and Music . . . 304 Chess ............................ 305
Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 307 Episcopal Engagements 308 Coming Events ................. 308 Catholic Education Notes . . . 308 Et Caster a ............................ 310 The Consecration of Buckfast Abbey ................. 311 Obituary ............................ 317 Wills ....................................... 317
The Leper Hospital in
British Guiana .............. 317 Orbis Terrabum:
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England, Ireland Australia Austria Canada France Palestine Yugoslavia
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Social and P ersonal 320
NOTANDA Buckfast Abbey. In an illustrated article filling thirteen columns, the Editor o f The Tablet describes three days in the monastery during the Consecration ceremonies (pp. 311-317).
W ork fo r the involuntarily workless. A suggestion reiterated and some objections answered (p. 297).
Germany’s “ Third Empire.” Its plans concerning Christianity (p. 294).
Ivensitism again. More matter fo r the KensitInskip dossier (p. 295).
V ic to r H u g o ’s convent and convent drawingmaster in real life. A chain o f coincidence from Scotland (p. 310).
In a Highland glen. Miss Noel Macdonald W ilby continues the story o f her pilgrimage in the wake o f St. Columba (p. 298).
“ It is but a chapel. It is no church.” W hy Clapham’ s bell-music was condemned at Law eighty years ago (p. 300).
The growth o f Catholic schools and the decline in Anglican ones. The Tablet’s Educational Correspondent cites the figures for the past six years (P- 309). _______________________ .
NEWS AND NOTES M IN ISTERS are back from Ottawa, and, with the advent of September, holiday-makers are streaming home. It is an old saying that September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, Pork and Oysters are all good, because they have, each and all, an R in them. W e suggest the addition of one more item with an R in it— namely, Work. The Tablet’s leading article this week deals with work for the workless ; and it discourages the deadly notion that we must have new workshops and new kits of tools before we can set about it. A continuance of widespread idleness and
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worklessness for another year would do irreparable harm to the morale of our people. Therefore we earnestly urge Catholics to take the lead in general schemes as well as to mobilize abeyant labour for Catholic purposes.
In the U.S.A., another Presidential Election draws on apace. Ten weeks will bring that fateful “ First Tuesday after the First Monday in November ” which decides the Chief Magistracy o f a very great country. And we must not forget that “ the American President,” as he is loosely called, has powers vastly exceeding those confided to Presidents in France, Germany, Poland, Spain and many other republics. For instance, M. Albert Lebrun’s powers are much like those of a constitutional king. When a Ministry is defeated in Parliament, the French President takes formal steps to secure a new Government ; but even this prerogative is exercised in accordance with restrictive traditions, and an unpopular Presidential choice would be promptly undone by a vote of the Chamber. A European President does not govern. Like a king, he has Ministers; or rather the Republic has them, for there are no Ministers of the President after the fashion o f Ministers o f the Crown. A “ Prime ” Minister is the chief governing personage ; indeed, he has more power than a President. We are speaking of Europe. In the U.S.A., on the other hand, the President of the Republic, as “ Chief Executive of the United States,” does a Prime Minister’s work. When Theodore Roosevelt used to speak o f “ m y policies," his discourses sounded egotistical in Europe, where the word “ policy ” was rarely used otherwise than in the singular; but President Roosevelt was correctly expressing American facts. It follows that November’s decision will be of vast importance.
Shrewd friends of ours in the U.S.A. have not ventured to give us forecasts o f November’s figures. They all agree, however, in testifying to the personal popularity of the Democrats’ candidate, Mr. Franklin
