T he T ab let , December 7. 1935.

W ITH L ITERARY SUPPLEMENT : F IFTY-SIX PAGES.

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From the Brief of Flis Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.

V o l . 166. No. 4987. London, December 7, 1935.

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R eg is tered at the General P o st Off ic e as a New s p a p e r .

News an d Notes...............................717 Hearth and Altar ...................... 721 A Tale of Last W e ek ......................721 The Liturgy and the L a ity ........... 723 A dvent Pastoral :

Westminster .............................. 726 Et O e t e r a ....................................... 728 The Westminster Federation Dinner 729 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Correspondent’s

Weekly Letter from) ............. 731 For the Missions.............................. 732

CONTENTS Page

From The Tablet o f Long Ago Page ... 733 Obituary ................................ ... 734 The Ursuline Centenary ... 734 W ills ...................... ... 734 O rius T errarum :

England ................................. ... 735 Ireland ................................. ... 736 Belgium ................................ ... 736 Brazil ................................. ... 736 Bulgaria ................................. ... 736 Canada ................................ ... 736 C z e ch o s lo v ak ia ...................... ... 736 France ................................. ... 736

Orbis T errarum (C o n t d .). Page

Hungary ...................... .............736 I t a l y ................................. .............738 M orocco ...................... .............738 Oceania ...................... .............738 Poland ....................... .............738 U .S .A ................................ .............740 Coming E vents ............. .............740 Social and P ersonal ... .............740 Chess ................................ ............ 740 L iterary Supplement ... ... 745-772

NOTANDA In an enlarged number, The Tablet’s reviewers appraise many new books (pp. 745-770).

H o ly Mass. A pastoral instruction by the A rch bishop o f Westminster (p. 726).

The Family Mass Crusade explained and commented (p. 721).

Sir John Shute’s spirited action. H ow a Catholic M .P . treats “ N o P o p e r y ” in Conservative Associations (p. 721).

The Foreign Missions. Tw o stimulating displays, at Westminster, in aid o f a great work (p. 732).

Nazidom’s Kulturkampf against both Catholics and Protestants. The ignoble immunity o f the “ almost new but badly shop-soiled ” little “ Old Catholic ” sect (p. 720).

“ The Liturgy and the Laity.” A n echo o f Birmingham’s Liturgical Week (p. 723).

The vogue o f the Murder Novel. A Tablet leader-writer’s analysis o f its popularity (p. 746).

College Green. H ow Trinity College, Dublin, will commemorate its only Catholic provost (p. 728).

St. Angela Merici, foundress. A week-end celebration at Forest Gate (p. 734).

NEWS AND NOTES B Y the addition of a Literary Supplement, this issue of The Tablet is grown to nearly double the ordinary size. While the Supplement speaks for itself to bookworms, we must write a few words about it for the benefit of those unbookish people who say that they have neither money for buying books nor leisure for reading them. Except where there is extreme penury or some positive disability, books ought to find a place in every life. In too many a twentieth-century house, there are full cellars and larders, an occupied garage, an empty

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nursery and an almost bare bookshelf. But reading is like food and drink. To draw benefit, the user must have only books and meats and wine that are good. The Tablet’s regular reviewing, of which this week’s Literary Supplement is an amplification, guides readers to such books as can yield both profit and pleasure. Our reviewers are men and women who have been chosen not only for their firmness of Catholic principle, but also for the soundness and sensitiveness of their literary palates. If readers who usually skip the review-pages will devote an hour or two to our Supplement this week, we feel sure they will see that they have been missing something which is worth their while.

A bereavement which his loyal subjects unite in bewailing kept the King within his domestic circle last Tuesday ; and therefore the opening of Parliament was without pomp and circumstance. His Majesty’s gracious Speech, read by the Lord Chancellor, contained no surprises. It affirmed once more the well-known fact that British foreign policy, under the present National Government, is “ based on a firm support of the League o f Nations.” But, as fifteen years of negotiation at Geneva have not yet secured mankind against sudden outbreaks of war, the Speech promised a strengthening o f our defensive forces. As for internal and social urgencies, the Government’s programme broadly coincides with its electioneering promises. This is what was expected ; and it must now be followed up by strenuous legislative work. By using his majority—• never brutally, but always firmly— and b y regarding the Labour Members as His Majesty’s Opposition rather than as partisan enemies, a great deal could be done by Mr. Baldwin in a short time. The General Election convinced the whole world o f our stability ; but Parliament is still on its trial as an instrument of good rule. The Election will soon be forgotten ; and our political institutions will be judged b y the success or failure of the new Parliament in severely utilitarian activity.