THE TABLET s i W eek ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v i ew
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 162. No. 4869. London, September 2, 1933.
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News and Notes . . . . . . 289 A Cassandra of the Pacific 293 “ I Met a Gipsy ” ................. 294 That “ Shilling’ s Worth of
S in ”
Coming Events ................. 295 Reviews :
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II Penseroso ................. 295 A Model H is t o r y ................. 296 Where a Caravan has
Rested .............. . . . 296 “ Flamenca ” in English 298 Books Received . . . . . . 298 New Books and Music . . . 298 H.E. Cardinal Bourne . . . 299
CONTENTS
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A German Priest in Prison 299 Blessed John Roberts . . . 300 Our Lady of Boulogne . . . 300 “ Pax Roman a ” 300 The Bishop of Bradford and
The T a b le t ............................ 302 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................305 Dr. Longford Again . . . 306 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 307
Et Ce t e r a ............................ 308 Letters to the Editor :
“ Marydown ” ............ 309 “ The Daily M a il” . . . 309 Communion Rails.................309 The “ Book of St. Paul of the Cross” ............................ 309 Ch e s s ....................................... 310 Catholic Education Notes . . . 310 Obituary ............................ 311 Henri Gheon’ s “ St.
Francis ”
Orbis Terrarum:
England ............................ 311 Scotland ............................ 312
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Orbis Terrarum (Contd.) :
Ireland ............................312 Canada ............................ 312 France ............................ 314 Germany ............................ 314 India 314 In do-China............................ 316 Lithuania ............................ 316 South Africa ................. 316 Uganda ............................ 316 U.S.A....................................... 316 Episcopal Engagements . . . 316 Franciscan Appointments... 316 Social and Personal . . . 316
NOTANDA Problems o f the Pacific Ocean. A gloomy prediction examined (p. 293).
The Blackening o f Catholics. Dr. Longford again. The libeller o f the Bishop o f Oran defames the Cardinal Archbishop o f Westminster (p. 306).
Dr. Blunt, Anglican Bishop o f Bradford, answers The Tablet’s Open Letter and receives a rejoinder (p. 302).
The “ Pax Romana ” Congress. An account, by a participant from England, o f this year’s gathering at Luxemburg (p. 300).
Andorra. H ow the Spanish Republic regards the action o f France (p. 290).
Blessed John Roberts. An illustration o f the memorial picture at Dolgelley (p. 300).
“ A London Journalist ” on some American telegrams in English newspapers (p. 309).
Cardinal Bourne. A French appreciation o f His Eminence (p. 299).
A German priest expresses righteous indignation. The result (p. 299).
M ore about “ sin tariffs.” A n Early Victorian’s discovery in Brussels (p. 294).
By the roadside in Yorkshire. A simple story, with the suggestion o f a missionary field (p. 294).
NEWS AND NOTES H IS fame as a weather-forecaster is gone from St. Swithin. “ I f it rain on St. Swithin’s, ’ twill rain for forty days ” is one form of an old saw which was believed by millions o f Englishmen who had no idea where, when and how the Holy Bishop o f Winchester lived and died. This year, St. Swithin’s (July 15) was a rainy day ; and it was followed by a spell o f radiant summer almost without parallel in living memory. Indeed, the torror (if we may use a neglected word) of August has been
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almost too much of a good thing and has provoked flippant persons to say that St. Blaise has kept St. Swithin out of mischief. Sun-soaked as we are, we ought to be more than usually active during the coming winter. After a gloom y and wet English summer, it has been the fashion to excuse dejection and inertia by saying that everybody is below par through want of sunshine : So we have now to show what we can do when we are above par through our abnormal absorption of solar vitality.
While Englishmen sweltered under last Sunday’s grilling heats, the by-roads in County Cork were quaggy with copious rain-water, and raw mists made it difficult for the Free State Government’s great-coated police and soldiery to be sure whether there were Blue Shirts in the picture or not. By a clever ruse and with the help o f luck, General O ’Duffy was able to address 5,000 o f his adherents in the town o f Bandon, despite the elaborate and expensive arrangements made to stop him. Writing on Thursday morning, we have still to hear that any prominent Blue Shirt has been arrested. The fact is that Mr. de Valera and his colleagues are in a cleft-stick. At the very moment when costly and far-spreading dispositions o f civil and military forces were vainly trying to deprive General O ’Duffy of free speech, another General was inflaming members o f the unlawful Irish Republican Army by declaring that he and those under him would refuse to give up their arms to any authority save an out-and-out Republic. The “ Army Council ” of the I.R .A . has followed this up with a seditious proclamation. Odium would have come upon Mr. de Valera if he had arrested the pacific General of the Right and have let the bellicose General and Council of the Left go free. But, at the moment of our penning these lines, the Blue Shirts are not the most engrossing topic in Ireland. Public attention has been shifted to a rumour which some newspapers call an accomplished fact. It is said that General O ’Duffy is to be the leader o f a National Party in which the two Parliamentary Parties of
