June8, 1935
THE TABLET *A W eek ly N ew s p a p e r a n d R e v ie w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 165. No. 4961.
London, June 8, 1935.
Sixpence.
R e g is t e r e d a t t h e General P o s i Of f i c e a s a N ew s p ap e r .
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News and Notes . . . ^ . . 713 For Whit S u n d a y ......... 717 A Word to F ra n c e ......... 718 Catholics and Education . . . 719 From The Tablet of Long
Ago . . .
Our Historic English Con
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vents— X . .....................719 The Cambridge Summer
School ............... . . . 721 The Abolition of Slavery in
Brazil . . . .............. 721 Coming Events ................. 722 Review s :
“ J o ” ............................ 722
CONTENTS
Reviews ( Oontd.) :
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St. Mark’s Gospel . . . 723 Maximilian and Carlota . . . 724 Outstanding Novel s—
LX IY ............................ 724 New Books and Music . . . 725 The Exhibition of Russian
Art ....................................... 726 A Mime of the Martyrs . . . 726 The Bishop o f Sebastopolis 727 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 729 Obituary ............................ 730
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Church of the Sacred
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Heafrt, Aston ................. 731 “ The Catholic Times ” . . . 731 Et Ce t e r a .................... 732 Letters to the Ed it o r :
St. Bede, English and
Roman ............................ 733 The Burial of James I I 733 The Word “ Mass” . . . 734 The B.B.C....................... 734 Liverpool Cathedral......... 734 Cambridge and St. John of
Rochester . . . 735 St. Joan’s Alliance . . . 736
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Books Received . . . . . . 736 Orb i s Terrarum:
England ............................ 737 Scotland ............................ 738 Wales ............................ 738 Ireland ............................ 738 Czechoslovakia ................. 738 France .............. . . . 738 Germany ............................ 738 India ............................ 740 Italy ............. . . . . 740 Nippon ............................ 740 Social and Personal . . . 740 Ch e s s ....................................... 740
NOTANDA Whitsuntide. A Tablet leader-writer lays new stress on the Feast’s evangelistic summons (p. 717).
Catholics and Education. A caveat fo r whom it may concern (p. 719).
“ Tw o Crises in three days.” Governmental instability in France. Its contrast with the settled administrations o f France’s neighbours (p. 718).
St. Thomas More. Concerning certain illnatured articles in the Spectator and the Morning P o s t (pp. 714-15). ;
Some Catholics in the Birthday and Jubilee Honours List (p. 732).
Our new A rm y Bishop. Monsignor D ey’s consecration at Ascott (p. 727).
Brazil’s long fight to eradicate slavery within her borders, and how that fight was eventually won' (p. 721).
From the Russia o f long ago. Ikons and other religious treasures in the Exhibition o f Russian A r t (p. 726).
The Feminist Movement. St. Joan’s Alliance gives a banquet o f honour to Mr. and Mrs. Lyons. Points from the speeches (p. 736).
NEWS AND NOTES
OT for the first or even for the hundredth time ~ must we lament the arrangement b y which this weekly newspaper, though dated Saturday, has t o be printed on a Thursday afternoon. Again and again that “ sour little devil who lurks down below ” to worry poor journalists has arranged to release very important news just a few hours after our going to press. This week’s instance is exceptionally trying. Everybody knows all about a transaction in Britain’s domestic politics which ought to have become a fully accomplished fact before these lines are under our readers’ eyes ; but it would
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not be correct for us to discuss it until His Majesty has given formal effect to the change.
After the calamitous frost which wrought so much havoc in our orchards and potato-fields last month, The Tablet published some remarks on Great Britain’s immunity from the worst natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, typhoons and tidal waves. But what we said o f Great Britain is not trueof theBritishEmpire. HisMaj esty’s dominions overseas can show not only every racial type and every kind o f climate but also every kind of physical catastrophe. Until a few days ago, Quetta, the chief c ity o f British Baluchistan, was a thriving little town, well known to thousands o f our fellow-countrymen who have served there in a military capacity or as workers on the important Quetta railway. To-day, Quetta lies in ruins. Hardly a house remains standing. Worse still, the death roll can hardly number less than 30,000 d e a d ; and there are many wounded. The horror came almost without warning. A strange chattering o f excited little birds was heard under the eaves, and a few moments later the buildings went crashing down and all the lights were extinguished. As usual, the Army showed that it is not, as some mean persons would have us believe, a merely destructive force. Quetta was placed under martial law and the quickly repaired railway was used to the utmost for bringing food and water and medicines into the city and for taking those who remained alive away from a scene o f horror and from a risk o f disease. At the moment o f writing, we lack particulars o f the Catholic losses, which are sure to be heavy. But most o f us will feel that this is a disaster in which no right-minded Catholic will direct his practical sympathy to the needs of his own co-religionists alone.
So often has The Tablet congratulated Scotland on having two such ably edited papers as the Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald that readers of our present Note cannot fairly charge us
