March 24, 1934 .
THE TABLET y l W e e k l y N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIM OS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 163. No. 4898.
London, March 24, 1934.
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N ew s and No t e s ...................3 53 Gabrielmas ............................ 357 For t.he Attorney-General . . . 357 From The Tablet of Ninety
Years A g o ............................ 358 The Time of the End . . . 359 Books Received ................. 361 R e v ie w s : More Hedley Sermons . . . 361
“ T. P. **
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Murder No Mystery . . . 362 The French Protestants ...364 Henri Gheon Goes to
Lisieux ............................ 364
CONTENTS
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St. Jerome’s Coadjutrix 366 Dr. Allers in Brief . . . 366 Corvo the Impossible . . . 368 Morris of Kelmscott . .. 368 By the Abbot of Buckfast 370 Eleven Prime Ministers 370 Faith and Society . . . 371 More of the “ Big
Herder ” ......................... 371 New B ooks and Mu s ic . . . 371 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 373 A Window at Wandsworth 374
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Catholic Education Notes . . . 375 E t C/ETe r a .............................. 376 Bede Jarrett, O.P., An
Appreciation ................. 377 Ordination at Valladolid . . . 378 Coming E vents ...................3 78 L enten P astorals :
Lancaster ............................ 378 B r en tw ood ............................379 Nottingham 380 Menevia ............................ 381 Obitu ary .............................. 382 W i l l s 383 Palm Sunday ................. 384
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Or b is T errarum
England
Ireland
Burma
Canada
China
France
Germany
India
J av a ..............
Manchukuo
Spain
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So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 388 Ch e s s ................ . . . 388
NOTANDA “ Gabrielmas.” A Tablet leader writer mentions the Archangels o f the Missal, and a dramatic poet makes them the speakers in a new Morality for declamation (pp. 357, 359).
Death’s ruthless hand leads away many faithful servants o f God. Appreciations o f Prior Bede Jarrett, O .P ., and others (pp. 377, 382-3).
More Lenten Pastorals. The Bishop o f Lancaster on the Sacred Passion; the Bishop o f Brentwood on the H o ly Y ea r ; the Bishop o f Nottingham on the Christian Family; and the Bishop o f Menevia on the Sacraments (pp. 378-81).
For the attention o f Sir Thomas Inskip, His Majesty’s Attorney-General. The Protestant Truth Society’s Protestant Untruths about Pope Benedict X V (p. 357).
Vexilla Regis prodeunt. A new translation o f to-m orrow ’ s Hymn, together with other poems for H o ly Week (p.' 384).
In an enlarged issue o f The Tablet many new books are reviewed (pp. 361-71).
NEWS AND NOTES ¥ N the big shops and stores, broad counters are 4 piled with Easter eggs, some o f them so costly that their price would feed a poor family for weeks. Like Christmas presents, these Easter eggs have become a mere fashion, and they are handled with little recollection o f the Christian mysteries which give them their name. All the more then are earnest Christians bound to redouble their prayers and meditations during Holy Week, so as to make some reparation for those hectic millions who will not “ watch with Him even one hour.”
Queen Emma’s death recalls attention to her good and useful life. This Princess was fated to serve Duty, that “ stem -faced daughter o f the
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Voice o f God,” rather than Joy. Her marriage was more the outcome o f diplomacy than of the wooing which was her human and maidenly due. In other words, it was arranged in order to give the Throne of Holland an heir rather than to give Emma of Waldeck-Pyrmont a gallant and loving husband. When only just out of her ’ teens the Princess found herself the consort o f a man in his sixties. Moreover, King William I I I of the Netherlands was dour. It is told o f him that he led his young wife up to a portrait of his own mother and said, with cold pride : “ She never danced and in public she never laughed.” To this elderly primness Queen Emma surrendered her girlhood without complaint ; and throughout her long widowhood she dutifully spent her strength as a sage Regent and as a wise upbringer of her daughter, the child-Queen Wilhelmina During the Great War she deserved part o f the credit for keeping Holland out of the struggle. Herself a German by birth, she became a thoroughgoing Netherlander and stood stoutly for Holland’s old policy of no absorption by Prussia.
D o the political males o f France ever trouble to ponder the successful reigns or regencies o f Queens ? Within sight o f the Pas-de-Calais is England, whose Victoria ruled for more than sixty years over a quickly growing and unparalleled Empire. The regency o f the boy-K ing A lfonso’s mother in Spain was a failure only in so far as the male politicians o f that Kingdom behaved stupidly or corruptly ; and Queen Emma’s regency in Holland was certainly beneficent. Will France persist much longer in refusing votes to women, despite the examples and experience of other countries ? So long as she does so, only half her civic forces will be mobilized ; yet she needs them all.
Fascismo’s Duce told an adoring assembly in Rome last Sunday that, in the event o f the Disarmament Conference ending in failure, “ there will no longer be any need for the League of Nations to reform itself, but only to register its own death.” While he was speaking, the French Government was