May18, 193S

THE TABLET

A W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w

DÜM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTBIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

Vol. 165. No. 4958.

London, May 18, 1935.

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News and No t e s ................. 617 Usque ad M o r tem ................. 621 Two Portraits............................622 A Liturgical Coincidence . . . 622 Joannem Fisher et Thomam M o r e ....................................... 623 Oxford Honours More . . . 623 Thomas More, Martyr and

Citizen of London . . . 624 Review s : «

M. Tardieu’s Tocsin . .. 625 Martyr Poets ................. 626 Dom Bede Camm................. 626

CONTENTS

Review s ( Oontd.).

For Oblates, O.S.B. . . . 627 The Materia of Arts and

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Crafts . . . .............. 627 New Books and Mdsic . . . 628 Books R eceived .............. 628 The Approach of Plotinus to God . . . .............. 629 Prom The Tablet of Long

Ago .............. .............. 629 Et Cabteea . . . .............. 630 Back to the Land .............. 631 Coming Events .............. 631

Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 635 Contemporary Witness to

Page the Faith of SS. John Fisher and Thomas More 637 Letters to the Editor :

Our Two New Saints . . . 638 Performing Right . . . 638 St. Andrew’ s Day . . . 638 The Eastern Liturgies . . . 638

Orb i s Terrarum :

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England ............................ 639 Ireland ............................ 640 China ............................ 640 France ............................ 640 Holland ............................ 640 India ............................ 640 Manchukuo 642 Spain ............................ 642 Obituary ............................ 642 The Royal Silver Jubilee . . . 644 Social and Personal . . . 644 Chess . . . 644

NOTANDA A t long last, the Church comes to the eve o f the Fisher-More canonizations. By a Latin ode, two Holbein portraits, and several articles, The Tablet offers tribute to the new Saints (pp. 621, 623-5, 632-3, 637).

Rochester. H ow St. John Fisher will be honoured by his co-religionists, five weeks hence, in his own Cathedral city (p. 630).

M. Tardieu on dangers to France. Some words o f friendly criticism o f his allusions to British politics (p. 625).

Scotland’s Presbyterians on Scotland’ s Catholics. Their sauce fo r the goose but not fo r their gander (p. 620). _ ;

A hint from the Nazis. What might be done at London’ s night-clubs and road-houses (p. 619).

Under the trembling aspen tree. A tale o f another village blacksmith (p. 630).

NEWS AND NOTES

C O far as it has gone, this year’s Paschal-tide has been full o f events and emotions for English Catholics. Hardly had the new Archbishop of Westminster been solemnly enthroned in his cathedral when the joyous Royal Jubilee-week, splendid and successful beyond anybody’s expectations, was upon us. To-morrow prolongs our gladness b y the canonization o f two English Saints who are loved as well as honoured. And next week we shall be harking back almost to the dawn of English history in order to give thanks for the evergreen life and work of that truly English saint and scholar whom even the detractors o f monks and monasteries revere as the Venerable Bede. To-day’s Tablet says much about to-m orrow’s new Saints; and our issue of next week will contain our own Correspondent’s accounts o f the high rites in the

New Series. Vol. CXXXIII. No. 4357.

Vatican basilica. As for St. Bede, the significance o f his life-work will be explained to our readers by competent pens.

It would have been a strange and sorry thing if the Benedictine poet who wrote for us last week a Latin ode in honour o f Their Majesties’ semiju b ilee had failed to re-tune his lyre for St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More. On a further page we print his latest verses.

It is on technical grounds that the B.B.C. bases its refusal to broadcast any part o f to-m orrow’s ceremonies in St. Peter’s ; and on this point The Tablet’s adviser tells us that he is bewildered. He says that it is “ not as if the B.B.C. had to arrange a transmission from the Vatican basilica ; because the Vatican City authorities have already arranged to transmit.” Those o f us who possess short-wave receivers o f good quality will try to get reception on a wave-length of 19‘84 metres. But it will be worth while to search the aether for relays. The Athlone station, it is announced, is to relay the ceremony. Athlone’s wave-length is 531 metres. In this connection, we respectfully offer to listeners a bit o f advice which applies all the year round and not only to the ceremonies o f to-morrow. We suggest that, whenever something important happens in a foreign country, it is worth while to dip into that country’s transmissions as the hours pass. More than once we ourselves have gleaned exciting moments in this way. German musical programmes are often washed out suddenly to make time for some preferred orator who wants to tell the world what Germany absolutely refuses to accept or tolerate. Spain, Austria and Belgium have all given us thrills. Radio Paris amazed us three weeks ago b y transmitting the Lourdes Triduum for three continuous hours. And late on Wednesday night we picked up from Warsaw a sorrowful sequence o f sounds in memory o f Marshal Pilsudski. Deep-toned bells tolled again and again ; organs pealed ; an orchestra played a funeral march ; and, best of all, the voices