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 TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 161. No. 4849.
L o n d o n , A p r i l 15, 1933.
S i x p e n c e .
Registered at the General P ost Office as a Newspaper.
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News and No t e s ................. 457 “ Victorism ” 461 The Lamentation of Our
Lady
462
From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 464 St. Mary Redcliffe . . . 465 In Sanctissimi Reditu : Sab-
batto Sanono ................. 466 Review s :
Some Psalms of Not
David ............................ 467 The Quitas of Ibn Yamin 467
CONT
R e v ie w s ( Oontd.)
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Lunn v. Joad .................468 “ Escape from Limitation” 468 Six English Plays . . . 469 New Books and Music . . . 470 Tristan da Cunha .................471 Chess 471 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 473 Catholic Statesmen in Rome 474 ET C.ETKRA 475
ENTS
Lenten Pastorals :
Shrewsbury
Leeds
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.. 476
.. 476
Anti-Semitic Persecution . .. 477 Catholic Education Notes . .. 477 Wills ...................... .. 478 Orbis Terrarum:
England ...................... .. 479 Scotland ...................... .. 480 Ireland ...................... .. 480 Æther ...................... .. 480 Canada ...................... .. 480 China ...................... .. 480 Franco ...................... . . 481
Orris Terrabum (C onti.)
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India ...................... .. 481 J apan ...................... .. 482 New Guinea .. 482 Nigeria ...................... .. 482 South Africa .. 482 Spain ...................... .. 482 Uganda ...................... . . 482 U.S.A................................. .. 482 Padley Chapel .. 484 Social and P ersonal . .. 484 A Beauty and a Beast . .. 484 Books Received .. 484
N O TANDA
A H o ly Week number o f The Tablet. Many articles, poems, and engravings relevant to Passiontide and Easter (pp. 462-466).
The Archbishop o f Canterbury’s welcome words on the H o ly Year (p. 457).
“ Victorism .” A counterblast to the prevalent Defeatism (p. 461).
Tristan da Cunha. H .M . Secretary o f State for the Colonies rejects an outrageous proposal (p. 471).
The Centrum in Germany. Its answer to some recent criticisms (p. 458).
St. Etheldreda’s, Ely Place. A grant-in-aid from the City Fathers (p. 475).
The Education (Necessity o f Schools) Bill. Tw o educational weeklies on the principles o f the new measure (p. 477).
Louis Veuillot. The work and sacrifices o f a great Catholic journalist recalled fo r his fiftieth anniversary (p. 475).
Padley Chapel. The excavations and what they have yielded (p. 484).
NEWS AND NOTES I F this Year of Grace be indeed, as the Church is taking it to be, the nineteen-hundredth anniversary of the Crucifixion, it is also the nineteenhundredth anniversary o f the Resurrection, o f the Ascension, o f the Descent o f the H oly Ghost, o f the Birth of the Christian Church and o f the Institution o f the Holy Eucharist. Therefore a well-kept Holy Year will include extraordinarily reverent and attentive observances o f Paschal-time, of Whitsuntide and o f the Fête Dieu, or Corpus Christi ; and when, after solemnly remembering the historical elements of the Gospel, we settle down to the score or so of Sundays after Pentecost, we shall have plenty to do in bringing supernatural forces as well as Christian ideals to the aid o f distressed mankind.
N ew S e r ie s . Vol. CXXIX. No. 4,248.
From the Archbishop o f Canterbury, whose utterances The Tablet so often has the pleasure o f praising, come words about the H oly Year which are in refreshing contrast with the recent remarks o f His Grace’s Northern brother. Dr. Lang has published the following lines in the April number o f his Canterbury Diocesan Gazette:
This year may rightly be regarded as the nineteenth centenary of the Crucifixion. At a time when a new sense of the unity of human life past and present inspires the observance of all sorts o f centenaries, it would be strange indeed i f a centenary of the greatest event in the world’s history were not very specially marked. It ought to give a fresh emphasis to all the Christian’s yearly commemorations of the Cross. The fact that His Holiness the Pope has catted the faithful of the Roman Church to observe this 1933 as a Holy Year, may well be used as an opportunity, surely most welcome in the midst of our deep divisions, of joining with a great multitude of our fellow-Christians throughout the world in a united reverent and thankful remembrance of the supreme Act of the world’s redemption. With such excellent words in our ears, we may relegate Dr. Temple’s pronouncement to oblivion.
This year, the Orthodox Easter coincides with the Catholic ; but in Russia, while a cowed minority will commemorate Passion-tide with maimed rites, most o f the people will be regaled with broadcasts from the gaudy hall in which both Russians and Britons are undergoing a mock trial. We call it a mockery, because Moscow herself, in an impudent message transmitted in English from one o f her radio-telephonic stations, has made it plain that the “ guilt ” o f the accused persons is not an open question. It was with pain that we read the reports o f Mr. George Lansbury’s Plymouth speech on this bad business. After justly claiming for Russia the right to try foreigners against whom a prima facie case may be made out, the Labour leader s a id :
My business is to see that these men have a fair and square trial, and I believe the Russian Government will see they get it. We challenge Mr. Lansbury to deny that the Russian
