THE TABLET

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DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUE ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MAN EAT IS

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

Vol. 161. No. 4,836.

London, January 14, 1933.

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New s and No t e s ................ 33 The Perennial Puzzle of

High Anglican AntiCatholicism ......................... 37 Catholic Land .............. 38 The “ Thirty-threes.” A

Compilation .............. 39 The Redemptorists.............. 40 Rot ........................................ 41. From The Tablet of Ninety

Years A g o ......................... 42 Cardinal Bourne .............. 42 R e v i e w s :

The Doctor o f the Dark

Night ......................... 42 The Mosaic Problem . . . 43

CONTENTS

R e v ie w s ( Gontd.) :

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The Franciscan Tertiaries 43 A New Atlas .............. 44 New Books and Music . . . 44 Books Received .............. 46 The Catholic Teachers’ Con­

ference ......................... 46 L e tters to the E d i t o r :

The “ Chair of Unity ”

Octave ......................... 47 Church Music .............. 47 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) 49

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Catholic Education Notes . . . 50 Redemptorist Appointments 51 I ET CiETERA............................ 52

Liverpool Cathedral . . . 53 Rinuccini’s Mission . . . 53 Ob it u a r y ............................ 53 An Anglican Hagiodrama 53 Or b is T errarum :

England ......................... 54 Scotland ......................... 54 Ireland ......................... 54 Canada ......................... 55

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Or b i s T ebrarum (Oontd.) China 55 Ethiopia 56 France 56 Japan 56 Madagascar ... 56 Malaya 57 Oceania 57 Poland 57 Spain 58 U .S .A . 58 Coming E vents 60 So c ia l and P ersonal 60 Ch e s s ................ 60

NOTANDA Not good enough. A “ settlement ” between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Polish Ambassador which ignores the general public (p. 35).

The U .S .A . and the League o f Nations. A respectful suggestion to the Democrat Presidentelect (p. 33).

Mr. John Buchan, M .P ., on the League o f Nations Union. The Tablet’s comments endorsed by one o f the Union’ s founders (p. 34).

W ill the imminent General Election in the Irish Free State be null and void ? A Constitutional problem (p. 34).

The puzzle o f H igh Anglicanism’ s “ Catholicism.” A Liverpool story (p. 37).

Liverpool Cathedral. Further details, in a statement by the Archbishop, o f the progress o f the work and the preparations fo r the stone-laying (p. 53).

The Redemptorist Bi-centenary. Father Stebbing, C.SS.R., begins a survey o f the history and work o f the Congregation (p. 40).

NEWS AND NOTES nPO -M O R ROW , Sunday, the H oly Year in

•*- honour o f the Crucifixion will be solemnly proclaimed b y Protonotaries-Apostolic from the porches o f the Eternal City’s four great basilicas—■ those of St. Peter, St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul-Without-the-Walls. When the Sovereign Pontiff opens the Door on April 2, the special seals and medals struck for the occasion will carry no ornament save a Cross with the words Adoremus Te, Christe, quia redemisti mundum. Without any exhortation from the poor likes o f us, Catholics will join in spirit with to-m orrow’s Indiction and will, without waiting for April, begin the prayers o f this Holy Year.

N ew S e r ie s . Vol. CXXIX. No. 4,235.

Calvin Coolidge, whose lucky career as thirtieth President of the U.S.A., should have gained him the name of “ Prosperity Coolidge,” died suddenly last week and has been buried with such simple rites as he himself would have chosen. Although he passed away at the early age of sixty, the ex-President had been politically dead for years ; partly through his own deliberate choice and largely because the America which enjoyed a Golden Age under his rule has itself died and is just now enduring the agony o f re-birth. Had he lived to be sixtyeight, or even sixty-four, Calvin Coolidge would probably have beheld great events in North America; but he would have seen them as a bewildered and perhaps pained looker-on rather than as an active statesman helping to mould and direct them.

Here is a respectful appeal to Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, President-Elect o f the U.S.A. His Democrat forerunner in the Presidency, Woodrow Wilson, insisted that a League o f Nations should be created as an integral part o f the Great Peace Settlement after the World-W ar ; and such a League was duly brought into existence. President W ilson’s fellow-countrymen, however, refused to enrol their nation among the League’s members, and their refusal has remained good— or remained bad— right through the Republican Administrations o f Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Is it certain that American adversity has not quietly induced a change o f temper towards full participation in the life and work o f the League ? Before our American readers brush aside this amicable question of ours, perhaps they will reasonably consider the remark which we are about to make.

Throughout the twelve years or so o f the League o f Nations’ activity, the United States have been neither in it nor out o f it. By a system of so-called “ observers ” and other emissaries, Washington has practically associated herself with the very organization from which, formally, the States dissociated their country and Government. At the very