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DUM V O B I S GRATULAMUR A N IM O S E T IA M ADDIM US UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER M A N E A T IS

From the Brief of His Holiness Pitts IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

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News and No t e s ................. 161 Another Centenary................. 165 “ Near Home ” 166 A Church of the Sacred

Heart ............................ 167 Reviews :

i The Good Shepherd of

Angers ” ............................ 170 The Seventh Edward . . . .170 Necromancy ................. 172 Books Received ................. 172 New Books and Music . . . 172 A Shilling’s Worth of Sin 173

CONTENTS

Letters to the Ed it o r :

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The “ Anglo-Catholic” Pre­

tension ............................ 174 Mr. Frankau’s “ Everyvvoman ” ............................ 174 The League of National

Life ............................ 174 A “ Tablet ” Article . . . 174 Prize Day at the Oratory

School ............................ 175 Obituary ............................ 175 Ch e s s ....................................... 175

Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 177 Canon Edward Murnane 179 Et C.e t e r a ......................... 180 Catholic Education Notes . .. 181 The C.S.G. Summer School 182 Obbis Tebkarum:

England ......................... 182 Ireland ......................... 184 Austria ......................... 184 Canada ......................... 185 Egypt ......................... 185

Orbis Terrari:m ( Contd.) :

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France ............................ 185 Holland ............................ 186 India 186 Lithuania ............................ 186 Poland ............................ 186 Spain ............................ 186 U.S.A....................................... 188 Northampton Diocesan Ap­

pointments ............................ 188 From The Tablet of Ninety

Years A g o ............................ 188 Coming Events ................. 188 Social and Personal . . . 188

N O T A N D A

The slaves that were, and the slaves that are. A Tablet leader-writer, hailing the centenary o f W illiam W ilberforce, has a much-needed reminder o f duty to those in slavery to-day (p. 166).

Twenty years’ progress in the Eternal City. A comparison and commentary by The Tablet’s Rome Correspondent (p. 177).

The Church o f the Sacred Heart at Aston, Birmingham. Its architectural strength and glories described and illustrated (p. 167).

Concerning “ a table o f fines to be paid for various sins,” and an Anglican V icar who refuses to meet The Tablet’s challenge as to the whereabouts o f the said table (p. 173).

Is there to be a new surrender to M oscow ? The Guardian’s step upon a wrong road (p. 161).

Religious Orders in Spain. The stipulations o f the “ Department o f Justice ” (p. 186).

Miss Lee Bevan’s Near Home. The delights o f an Early Victorian work recalled (p. 166).

NEWS AND NOTES L ETTING our thoughts run back to the August of two years ago, we see much for which our nation ought to be thankful. An onrush of calamitji which threatened to sweep away our ancient institutions was met, just in time, by dams thrown up in a hurry ; and the dams have held. On this outer side, the sea o f troubles, as Shakespeare called it, still murmurs its threats, and we must therefore labour manfully at strengthening the dykes. For the present, however, we are safe ; and despite Unemployment, only a few of our fellowcitizens are ragged and hungry. But even one such ragged and hungry being is one too many. W ith the renewed health and the re-polished intelligence which our holidays ought to give us, we must come back to work, in the resolve that it will not be goodenoughmerelytostaveoff ruin. Internationalism has had a set-back from which it will not recover unless the separate nations straightway make the best rather than the worst of their battered fortunes. It is to our own country that the peoples (including some who would not admit it) are looking for an example and a lead ; so it will be a humane as well as a patriotic work not to fail them.

When there is not enough food in a blockaded country, such provisions as exist are fairly divided among the mouths which must be fed. And when there is not enough work in a society beleaguered by economic depression it is only just that such work as there is shall be shared out among the hands that can do it. President Roosevelt is trying to realise this humane ideal in the U.S.A. So complex is modern industry and commerce that the difficulties are enormous ; and therefore success, if it be achieved, will be the more to the President’s credit. Without waiting for the end o f the American experiment, Britain ought to apply the same principle in her own way.

A Tablet leader this week reminds the Catholic public of Russian slavery and asks for a stiffer British attitude towards that obdurate evil. Here in “ News and Notes ” we give another beat to the drum ; because the danger of a new surrender to Moscow is formidable and imminent. Even Christian newspapers are taking what we have given good reasons for calling the un-Christian side. As an example, we will cite the Church of England Guardian. The editorial comments headed “ The Week,” which regularly fill the first four columns of our contemporary, are often excellent. Last week’s batch, for instance, could hardlj’ have been beaten for wide knowledge of the world’s affairs, for sanity, and for limpid, racy English. But, v/hen he came to Russia, the otherwise admirable Editor of the Guardian gave his readers the following remarks :—

Now that the first condition for the resumption of trade with Russia has been fulfilled by the release of the two British prisoners in Moscow, it is to be hoped that the resumption will be speedy. The objection to

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