THE TABLET y l Weekly Newspaper and Reviezo
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS i
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
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News and No t e s .......... 617 Parting Labels ...................621 Good Counsellors ...................621 Back to the Land ...................622 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years Ago
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Coming Events ...................623 Reviews :
Marlborough Vindicated 624 Canterbury Bells . . . 625 An Irish Trio ...................625 Books Received ...................626 New Books and Music . . . 626
CONTENTS
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Catholic Education Notes 628 The League of National
L i f e .......................................... 628 Obituary ...............................629 The Seal of the Confes
sional ...............................630 The Catholic Needlework
Guild
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Correspondence :
Romo (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ...............................633 Et Ca s t e r a .............................. 635
Letters to the Editor:
The Liverpool Cathedral
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Celebrations .................. 636 “ Castles in the A ir ” . . . 636 Poutiatine’s Daughter . . . 637 T h e “ Snowy - Breasted
Pearl ”
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The Village at Prayer . . . 637 The Sanitary Arrangements of the Mediaeval Monastery 638 Ordinations at Old Hall . . . 638 W ills 638 ORBis Terrarum:
England .............................. 639 Scotland ...............................640
Orbis Terrarum (Oontd.) :
Ireland ...............................640 Algeria .............................. 640 Austria .............................. 640 Canada .............................. 640 China ............... . . . 641 France .............................. 641 India ...............................642 Italy 642 Siam 642 Spain ...............................¿42 A New “ Black Country ”
Church .............................. 644 Social and Personal . . . 644 Ch e s s .......................................... 644
NOTANDA Politics in plenty. The future o f Party Names in Great Britain (p. 621).
Downside’s bereavement. The fruitful career o f Abbot John Chapman, O.S.B. (p. 629).
Legal aid fo r poor persons. A year o f good work in the name o f Our Lady o f Good Counsel (p. 621).
More about the late Lord Oxford and the Seal o f the Confessional. Lady Violet Bonham Carter’s rejoinder examined (p. 630).
Better Quality handicrafts versus trashy Massproduction. A Tablet note-writer returns to a necessary theme (p. 619).
How to attain a sane balance between town and country. A reasoned plea, by his Grace the Archbishop o f Liverpool, in support o f the Land Settlement movement (p. 622).
A pre-Emancipation Tablet in London’s Catholic Press. The contents o f the first number (p. 635).
The validity, as charitable gifts, o f bequests for private Masses. A judgment in the Chancery Division (p. 638).
Future priests. A long list o f ordinandi from Old Hall (p. 638).
NEWS AND NOTES n n o the Princess Royal The Tablet respectfully
-*■ wishes a quick and full recovery from the illness which has demanded the surgeons’ aid. The many duties and cares which are her own have never hindered the Princess from helping good works by her gracious presence and inspiring words. When Catholics pray to-morrow, as is their Sunday custom, not only for the King but for the proles regia, the temporal and eternal health and wealth of Her Royal Highness will not be absent from their minds.
N e w S eries. Voi. CXXX. No. 4278.
All over this closely-knit world, public life is just now tense with hopes and fears. To-day is Armistice Day—the fifteenth anniversary of what many men and women fondly believed to be not only the end of one Great War but the end of War in general. Instead o f universal fraternity, we behold rivalry, jealousy and suspicion. The Locarno agreements are fiercely assailed; and even the Kellogg Pact, with its carefully restricted renunciation of war “ as an instrument of national policy,” is treated in some quarters as if it has ceased to bind the signatories. Japan and Russia have come near to a state of w a r ; and Germany is ebullient with a recrudescence of militarism.
A torn-up fir-tree, decked with flags, was affixed last Tuesday to the new Palace of the League of Nations in Geneva as a sign that the roof-tree of the vast pile— as vast as the Palace of Versailles— is at last in its place. But the building will not be ready for use until 1935 ; and by that time both Germany and Japan, unless they alter their expressed minds, will be out of the League. With Brazil, Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States of America standing aside, the League’s authority would be small ; because the five countries we have named comprise about 400,000,000 inhabitants, or nearly one-fourth of the human race. Baron von Neurath has been speaking of a German scheme for a new and better League of Nations, but we find it hard to believe either in the scheme or in its authors.
To-morrow’s “ General Election ” in the German Reich will be no election at all. The legendary Irishman who “ didn’t see how either ” of the two candidates could get in unless they \toke up and showed more energy would have no perturbation about to-morrow’s nominees if he were living in Germany. Nobody can run in opposition to the Nazi L is t ; and therefore all the Government candidates are already as good as elected. The Reichstag thus becomes a sham. And even in our own country there is talk, sotto voce, of paralysed
