January 13, 1934.
THE TABLET A Weekly N ew spaper a n d R e v iew
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 163. No. 4888.
L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 13 , 1934.
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R eg is t er ed at the General P ost Of f ic e as a New spa per .
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News and No t e s ................ 33 O u r Ladye of W alsingham 37 A lbert the W ise ................ 37 “ The S ixpennies ” ................ 38 F u n e ra l P recau tio n s . . . 39 R e v ie w s :—
The P lace of Biology in
E th ics ............................. 39 A P o e t’s A g o n y ................ 40 O u ts tand in g Novels . . . 41 V<e V ic to rian is ................ 41 | The D issid ent E a s t . . . 41 R o d i l : and Some O ther i
P laces ............................ 42
CONTENTS
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R e v ie w s ( Gontd.) :
The H e lpers of th e Holy Souls ............................. 42 The I r i s h and th e Mass 43 New Books and Music . . . 44 Catholic Education Notes . . . 44 The P a lliu m and th e Popes 45 The L e tte rs of H ila rio n . . . 46 Obituary ............................. 47 F rom The Tablet of N inety
Y ears A g o ............................. 47 Correspondence :
Rome (O u r Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) . . . ................ 49
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C ard in a l B ourne ................ 50 E t C/ETERA..................... 51 The Catholic Teachers’ Con
ference ............................ 52 W i l l s ................................. 53 Letters to the E d i t o r :
St. Aloysius, Somers Town 54 “ I s I t So B a d ? ” ......... 54 Perfo rm in g Animals . . . 54 The Catholic M issionary
Society ............................. 54 Books Received ................ 54
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Orb is T errarum :
England ......................... 55 I r e la n d .......................... 56 Belgium ................... 56 Borneo .......................... 56 Canada .......................... 58 F ran ce ......................... 58 Spain ......................... 58 T ib et ......................... 58 E p is c o pa l E ngagements 60 Coming E vents ................ 60 Social and P ersonal . . . 60 Ch e s s ......................................... 60
N O TA N D A Cardinal Bourne’s health. Next week’s Novena for the recovery of His Eminence (p. 50).
Our Ladye of Walsingham. A first step towards a national Marian Revival. The Slipper Chapel (p. 37).
Catholic Teachers in Conference. This year’s gathering at Preston surveyed and summarized (p. 52).
“ Albert the Wise.” How the King of the Belgians has averted a political crisis by an appeal to strict justice (p. 37).
Russian confectionery in England. The Chambers of Horrors where it is made (p. 34).
Performing Animals. An Anglican Bishop’s sermon in a circus ring (p. 54).
“ Subsidies for Sixpennies.” A Tablet leaderwriter’s answer to the Last Dying Speech and Confession of the Week-End Review (p. 38).
British Art at Burlington House. “ Hilarion’s ” advice for a day at the show (p. 46).
Lord Hugh Cecil’s rejoinder to the Bishop of Liverpool . . . and to “ Romans ” (p. 35).
NEWS AND NOTES TT is now much more than a year since the Head of the Catholic Church in England was laid low by grave illness. His precious life has been spared to us; but, although Cardinal Bourne has transacted multifarious business as a Bishop, as a Metropolitan, and as presses perpetuus of the Episcopate in England and Wales, his advisers have allowed him to make only rare and few appearances among his people. At any time, both Catholics and many nonCatholics would have felt keenly the loss of the Cardinal’s bodily presence from those many gatherings which have owed so much in the past to his stately yet genial presence, his rather quiet yet com
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pelling voice; but his prolonged weakness is doubly grievous in 1934, to which we have looked forward as the Golden Jubilee Year of our Chief’s priestly ordination. On a further page of this week’s Tablet will be found particulars of a novena of prayers for His Eminence. Although the novena centres round the shrine of Blessed John Southworth, whose body rests in Westminster Cathedral, Catholics in all parts of these Islands can join in it. They can : and we are sure they will.
Last month, we had the painful task of warning lovers of Peace not to count too hopefully upon a cessation of war between Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran Chaco. I t seemed to us that Paraguay would hesitate to extend the Christmas truce long enough for Bolivia to repair damages after her recent defeats in the field. If Paraguay were the bigger and stronger State, Bolivia could accept a magnanimous gesture without humiliation; but it is the other way about. Bolivia is too proud to admit defeat; and Paraguay is too cautious to risk a revanche.
“ Pro Rege ” appears every week in The Tablet as one of our watchwords. Therefore it would ill become us to be silent concerning a slur upon His Majesty; especially when it has come from the lips of a public man whose name owes not a little of its efflorescence to the Fountain of Honour. Speaking at Nottingham last Saturday, Sir Stafford Cripps made threats to the effect that a Labour victory at the next General Election will be swiftly followed by the abolition of the Plouse of Lords and by the overcoming of “ opposition from Buckingham Palace.” After sleeping, or lying awake, on the matter, Sir Stafford saw that he had made a big blunder. Instead of manfully confessing that he had spoken carelessly and improperly, he tried, however, to bluff the matter out. “ I was most certainly not referring to the Crown,” he said to a reporter, “ The term ‘ Buckingham Palace ’ is
