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
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius I X to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 161. No. 4,841. London, F e b r u a r y 18, 1933.
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News and No t e s ................. 193 The “ Greater” Universities 197 An Approach to Techno
cracy
Instruction of the Holy
Office Concerning Sensual L i t e r a t u r e ............................ 200 From The Tablet of Ninety
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Years A g o ............................ 201 R e v i e w s :
The Great Luminary of the W e s t .............. ' . . . 201 Thomas Burke’s Master
piece ............................ 202
CONTENTS
R e v i e w s ( Contd.) :
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Outstanding Novels— LY 202 Greece To-day ................. 203 Books Received ................. 204 New Books and Music . . . 204 Catholic Education Notes 206 ' Unemployment: A London
C on fe ren ce ............................207 Ch e s s ....................................... 207 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................209 Coming Events .................210 j
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Et Cæ t e r a ............................ 211 Letters to the Editor :
The Layman’s New Testament .............t . . . 212 A Point of Exegesis . . . 212 A Recent N o v e l ................. 212 Church Music ................. 212 A Recent Novel ................. 213 The Lourdes Festival at
Westminster ................. 215 The Catholic Association
Dinner ............................ 216 Obituary ............................216
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W i l l s ....................................... 217 Orbis Terrarum:
England ............................ 217 Scotland ............................ 217 Ireland ............................ 218 JEther ............................218 British North Borneo . . . 218 Canada ............................ 218 France ............................ 218 Spain ............................ 220 Pitt’ s Attitude to Catholic
Emancipation ................. 220 Social and P ersonal . . . 220
NOTANDA
New Cardinals. Six coming elevations to the Sacred College (p. 210).
Sexagésima. A Tablet Note anticipates tomorrow’s Parable o f the Sower and links with it some words o f the H o ly Father’ s (p. 193).
Technocracy again. The Rev. S. J. Gosling’s first article (p. 198).
Immodest Books. The Tablet publishes a new translation o f the Instruction o f the H o ly Office (p. 200). An inquiry from the Prior o f Prinknash on a recent novel elicits a detailed reply (pp. 212, 213).
Bolshevism and Militant Atheism in the “ Greater ” Universities. The duty o f Catholics (p. 197).
A Quarrel without Quarrellers. The bad behaviour o f the Daily Herald (p. 195).
Count Tolstoy’s daughter speaks out against the 1933 tyrannv and butchery in Soviet Russia (p. 194).
NEWS AND NOTES S e x a g é s im a Sunday’s Gospel is probably the mostpreached-upon passage in all the Bible. It is natural that it should be so. Preachers sow the seed o f Christian truth lavishly, all the year round ; and they are apt to be discouraged when they find that, though the labourers are many, the harvest sheaves are few. Therefore they will speak solemnly tomorrow on the irrecipient soils— the trodden wayside, the rocks, the weeds and thorns. The chief difficulty in driving home the Parable of the Sower lies in the proneness o f some listeners to hear this part o f the Gospel in a spirit of fatalism. Forgetting — or not knowing— that a parable is usually intended to illustrate one point only, they apply it on allfours. Thus, unless the preacher warns and corrects them, some hearers are disposed to say within themj selves : “ If I ’m hard ground or a patch o f thorns, I | can’t help it. God has made me that way.” They conclude that Divine Providence “ never meant ! them to be very religious ” ; and therefore they excuse themselves from falling into line with such appeals for Lenten prayer as were made in these pages last week. It is the old error which was fought by St. Francis o f Sales— the error that sanctity and intercessory prayer are jobs reserved for priests, monks and nuns alone. We very respectfully draw the attention o f to-m orrow ’s preachers to some words uttered by our Holy Father which will be found in The Tablet’s Rome Letter this week. While His Holiness recognizes that “ not all of us can arrive at the ineffable mysteries o f sanctity hidden in God,” he nevertheless reminds us that " all are called to sanctity,” even those who seem to lack the religious disposition. The Pontiff beautifully said : “ There is no greatness which is not bound to serve G o d ; there is no littleness which cannot serve H im .”
It is proposed by more than one level-headed publicist that Mr. Ramsay MacDonald shall pay a visit to Mr. Franklin Roosevelt and that he shall set out almost immediately. The idea is not that the British Prime Minister should be accompanied by a bodyguard and council of financial experts but that he and the United States’ new President should become personally acquainted, with a view to sketching the outlines of some large scheme for world-recuperation, to be filled in b y the experts afterwards. The plan seems to be a good one ; but if Mr. MacDonald adopts it his errand will not be one to envy. Although the altruism o f Britain’s mood is no hypocrisy, it will be enormously difficult just now to persuade ordinary citizens o f the U.S.A. that Debt Revision is in their own interest as much as Europe’s. During at least a hundred years, nearly everybody has had a habit o f exaggerating the part played by money in human life. B y money we mean currencies. Coins and bank-notes have hitherto bought food, clothing, fuel and shelter so readily that it is natural for the millions o f workless and
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