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THE TABLET

A W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w

D U M V O B I S G R A T U L A M U R A N I M O S E T I A M A D D I M U S U T I N I N C C E P T I S V E S T R I S C O N S T A N T E R M A N E A T I S

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

V o l . 160. No. 4,822.

L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 8, 1932.

S i x p e n c e .

R eg is tered at the General P o st Off ic e a s a New s p a p e r .

New s and No t e s .................. 453 Concerning Ostriches . . . 457 The Horns of Hattin . . . 458 R e v i e w s :

Professor Windle . . . 459 Britannia Turrita . . . 460 Some Recent Works on

Education 461 “ Fur W ' sen imd Leben ” 462

A “ Prix C ourt ” . . . 464 Orkney : >. ithout Shet

land ............................ 464 Outstanding Novels . . . 466 The Wheels of Chance . . . 466 The Morrow of Abolition 466 A Cook-book Worth

Having ............................ 468

CONT

R e v ie w s (Cowtd.) :

Canada To-day and Tomorrow ............................468 New Books and Music . .. 470 Books Received ................. 471 Ch e s s .............................. 471 Co r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Rome (Our Own Corre

spondent’ s Weekly Letter from ) .............................. 473 L etters to the E d i t o r :

The Church in Norway 474 About a Pamphlet Cover 474 Et Ce t e r a 475 Mosaics at Droitwich . . . 476 The Beda Association . . . 478

ENTS

A Begging “ Convert ”

Clergyman 479 Catholic Education Notes . . . 480 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years Ago 481 St. Teresa of Lisieux and

Her Order 482 Catholic Progress in the

Southern Counties . . . 482 Obitu ary .............................. 482 Problems of South America 483 Coming E vents .................. 483 Orb i s T errarum :

England .............................. 484 Scotland ............................484 Ireland ............................486 Australia ............................486

Or b is T errarum ( Oontd.)

Austria

Canada

China

France

India

Italy

Japan

Latvia

Mexico

Boland

Portugal

Russia

Spain

U.S.A.

Yugoslavia

S o c i a l and P e r s o n a l . . . 488

. . . 486

. . . 487

. . . 488

NOTANDA Mexico. A rekindled persecution o f religion draws a new protest from the Father o f Christendom (p. 437). The Encyclical Accrba animi summarized (p. 473).

M ore ammunition for the anti-Bolshevist Crusade. The Catholic clergy in Russia (p. 456).

The Governor-General o f the Irish Free State. A Dublin newspaper’s plain speaking (p. 453).

Picture-mosaics at Droitwich. A description o f Mr. Gabriel Pippet’s work (p. 476), and an illustration (p. 477).

The coming o f the Carmelite nuns to London. A chapter o f Westminster diocesan history recalled in a sermon by the Cardinal Archbishop (p. 482).

A king’. !y tale o f Crusading times. H ow the Brethren of the Hospital and the Temple made their choice (p. 458).

The Beda Association. Last Tuesday’s spiritual and social functions (p. 478).

An enlarged issue o f The Tablet makes room for many critiques o f new books, and fo r a warning against a book which has not been submitted for review (pp. 459-470).

NEWS AND NOTES TN six cases out of seven, the news and annotations concerning the Irish Free State which appear in these “ News and Notes ” are based on information supplied to us by Catholic Irishmen living on their ancestral soil. Therefore we must again repel the oft-made suggestion (which originated in the nineteenth century, not the twentieth) that The Tablet is hostile to Ireland. To allege such hostility is as unjust as would be the allegation that England is the unrelenting foe of France because she fought Napoleon Bonaparte in our great-grandfathers’ days. Our strongest animadversions against Mr. de Valera’s acts and words have been o f zephyr mildness in

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comparison with the tornadoes o f reproach which thoroughly nationalist compatriots o f his have let loose upon the President o f the Executive. To print the stormiest of these outbursts would be to foment ill-feeling ; but we may transcribe the comparatively mild remarks made by the Irish Independent of last Tuesday. This Dublin daily, which is certainly not Anglophil, said :

Mr. James McNeill has, with the King’s approval, relinquished his office as Governor-General of the Irish Free State. In plain words, Mr McNeill has been dismissed on the advice of President de Valera The King, as a constitutional monarch, has acted, as he was bound to do, on the advice of his Majesty’s Ministers in the Free State.

The dismissal of Mr. McNeill within eight weeks of the day upon which his five years’ term would automatically expire, is President de Valera’s mean and petty revenge for Mr. McNeill’s exposure in the correspondence published on July 10 last of the calculated discourtesy to which he was subjected by the present Ministers of this State.

The first display of bad manners was in April last, when certain Ministers stupidly insulted the French Minister, whose guest Mr. McNeill was. This was followed by a series of mean attempts to exclude the Governor-General from his rightful place at the Eucharistic Congress functions, the refusal to invite him to the State reception to the Cardinal Legate, and other actions, which showed the same ignorance of the ordinary decencies of official conduct.

The Governor-General and Mrs. McNeill had given proof of their patriotism before they went to the Viceregal Lodge. During their five years there they discharged their duties with a dignity and charm that reflected credit upon this country, and endeared them to the people. Not the least of their fine qualities was a never-failing display of the good manners and kindly dignity that ought to be observed by those in offices of State. Private letters inform us that humiliation alternates with indignation in the minds of responsible Irishmen at this moment. Both in their own land and in all the countries affected by their multitudinous Diaspora, the sons and daughters of Erin were proud to believe that, although few of them were rich, all