May 11, 1936
THE TABLET ¿4 Weekly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w
DUM VOBIS GRATÜLAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V ol. 165. No. 4957.
L ondon, May i i , 1935.
S ixpence.
Registered at the General Post Office as a Newspaper.
News and No t e s .................585 A National F ê t e ? ................ 589 A Turning Tide ................ 589 England for St. George ... 590 Georgium et Mariam ... 591 Our Historic English Con
vents ...................................... 592 Legalized Child Murder . . . 593 Rev iew s :
Adèle Garnier .................594 A Call to Contemplation 595 Our American Colonies . . . 595 Books Re c e i v e d .................596
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New Books and Music . . . 597 Ch e s s .......................... . . . 597 The Catholic Truth Society 598 Coming E vents .................598 St. Bede’s Centenary . . . 599 The Sixteenth Century
Proto-Martyrs .................599 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ........................... 601 The Royal Silver Jubilee . . . 603
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Cardinal Bourne and Wonersh ........................... 603 The Breakespeare Club ... 603 Catenians at Claridge’s . .. 603 From The Tablet of Long
Ago . . .
E t Ce t e r a ............................. 604 The Letters of Hilarion
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-—IX ........................... 605 Obituary ............................. 605 Holiday Courses on the Con
tinent ........................... 606 Blessed Thomas More ... 606
Letters to the E ditor
The Burial of James I I .. 608 C.T.S. . . . ............ 608 Orbis Terrarum
England . . .
Ireland ...
Ceylon ...
Formosa ...
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France ... ............ 610 Germany ... 612 Russia ... . . . .. 612 Spain ... . . . .. 612 Ordination at Highgate .. 612 Social and P ersonal .. 612
NOTANDA The nation’s rejoicing. Last Monday’s radiant Celebration in honour of Their Majesties’ SemiJubilee (p. 589).
A monk of St. Benedict’s Latin ode in honour of the King and Queen (p. 591).
Spain’s new Government. Señor Gil Robles’ choice of a portfolio (p. 586).
The coming canonizations. A fine meeting in a London theatre. The tru th about an Anglican service in Rochester Cathedral. A Brussels blunder (pp. 587-8, 606).
Mr. Stanley Spencer and the Royal Academy of Arts. Praiseworthy action at Burlington House (p. 589). .
A mortal heart and an immortal love. Cardinal Bourne’s precious bequests to his old Seminary at Wonersh (p. 603).
How to deal with homeless criminal children : Shoot them! A Russian writer on the implications of a recent Soviet decree (p. 593).
NEWS AND NOTES CPEAKING to the Diplomatic Corps last ^ Wednesday, our King made the genial remark th a t London, his capital, is said to be reckoned a desirable city by Ambassadors and Ministers in other lands. London has certainly been a pleasant, and even a jolly place to live in during this week. The rains and winds which might have turned the Jubilee decorations into a dismal mess have held off. So summer-like was the spring weather th a t thousands of people slept in the parks last Sunday night without taking harm ; and the great Day itself was warmed and illumined by sunshine such as no Southern city could have surpassed. Accidents were few ; and the Royal progress from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul’s Cathedral and back again pursued its resplendent way without a hitch. On
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the official side, the preparations and rehearsals had been extremely well done ; but the climax of Their Majesties’ trium ph was th e measureless popular enthusiasm for the Royal House. At th e close of an arduous day, His Majesty sat before th e microphone and spoke, in kingly tones, one of those fatherly speeches of which he is a master. Indeed, we ought not to call it a speech. Rather was it a simple ta lk from the heart, in which the workless and the little children were affectionately remembered. More th an ever was it made plain th a t George the Fifth is not just the chief of the aristocracy. For the poor and lowly as well as for the rich and great, he is “ Our ” King.
In a cordial message to His Majesty the King, His Holiness the Pope twice mentioned Her Majesty the Queen, praying God " to keep you both happy for many years.” Practically all the other tributes also paid homage to the gracious lady whose quiet dignity has been enhanced by the example she has set as wife and mother. While the world, the flesh and the devil have been winning easy successes in all other grades of English society, our King and Queen have steadily maintained the highest standards of modesty and virtue. Not of this Georgian reign will historians be able to write their oft-used phrases about a scandalous and corrupt society im itating the vices of a Court.
A by-product of the Jubilee merrymakings has in it immense potentialities for good. On Monday afternoon, while everybody was in holiday mood, many dwellers in London thoroughfares of the poorer kinds simultaneously had the bright idea of enjoying themselves al fresco in the mean streets which they had made gay with cotton flags and paper garlands. Vehicular traffic had practically ceased; but, to make sure of Safety First, they drew ropes across the roadways and thus turned th e streets into openair club-rooms or restaurants. They brought out tables, chairs, glass, earthenware and flowers until they had, in each one of the streets thus treated, an airy café, as well as a playground for the children.
