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February 8, 1936

THE TABLET A Weekly N ew spaper R ev iew

DUM V O B IS GRATULAMUB ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIM US UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S TR IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

Vol. 167. No. 4996. L o n d o n , F e b r u a r y 8, 1936.

S i x p e n c e .

R egistered at the General P ost Offic e as a Newspapke.

News and No t e s ..................165 A nother Education Bill . . . 169 Going to Law ................... 170 C leaning London ................... 171 Some Archaaological P ro b

lems .............................................17 1 R eview s :

Abyssinia’s D u c e ................... 172 SUds off tho Cycles . . . 173 Chaucer’s “ Bokes ” . . . 173 Quo Y ad it? ................... 174 New Books and Music . . . 174 41 1001 N ights ” 175 Encyclical L e t te r ( Con

c luded)

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CONTENTS

Sermons fo r the Times—

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L X X V I I I ............................ 178 The Education B i l l ..................... 179 F rom The Tablet of Long

A g o ............................................ 179 Correspondence :

Rome (O u r Own Corre

spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) ............................ 181 Letters to the E d it or :

The Mass in H onour of

O u r L o rd ’s P r iesthood 183 Anim als in Abyssinia . . . 183 The L e tte rs of H ila rio n—

X V I I I ............................ 183 C.T.S. Rally a t E d in bu rg h 183

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ET CiKTERA.............................184 Obituary ................................18 5 Northfield’s New C h u r c h . . . 185 Books Received ................... 185 Orbis Terrarum:

England ................................ 186 Scotland ................................1 86 I r e la n d ................................ 186 Belgium ................................1 87 C anada ................................18 7 China ................................18 7 Corsica ................................187 Czechoslovakia ................... 188 F ran ce ................................18 8 H ungary . . . ' ................... 188

Orbis Terrarum (O ontd.) :

In d ia

I r a q ................

I t a l y ................

Mexico

Poland

U ru g u ay

U.S.A.

W est A frica

Yugoslavia

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. . . 188

. . . 190

Society of Our Lady of

Good Counsel

. . . 192

D r. H e rb e r t V aughan . . . 192 Coming Events . . . 192 Chess ............... . . . 192

NOTANDA

King George the Fifth. The Archbishop of Westminster’s pulpit tribute to the late Sovereign (p. 178).

The latest Education Bill. Some preliminary comments, especially on Clauses Eleven and Twelve (p. 169).

Mexico. A declaration by the Knights of Columbus (p. 166).

Moscow in London. A sorry by-product of the royal funeral (p. 166).

“ Going to Law.” A Tablet leader-writer on the proposals for abating delays in the King’s Bench Division (p. 170).

The ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II “ a Cardinal in the Jesuit Order.” Queer news from Sheffield (p. 168).

Abyssinia’s Emperor. A Princess’s account of his life and character (p. 172).

Deep down in Jericho. The Rev. Dr. Hugh Pope, O.P., discourses on some archaeological problems arising from discoveries during excavations in the East (p. 171).

NEWS AND NOTES ' I ’O-MORROW the iron finger of Septuagésima will be laid upon our lips ; and, for a while, we shall cease to answer the Gloria in excelsis Deo of the altar with our familiar et in terra pax. But nothing will silence the Church’s perennial Dona nobis pacem. Without it not then be a fine thing to make the approaching Lent a good Lent for Peace ? We have been accustomed to use the holy season for our own purgation from selfishness, pride and grossness. Without ceasing to fast and pray for our personal spirituality, we shall do well to ask that the nations as well as ourselves may be blessed. If their egoisms, rivalries and jealousies be exorcised, pax in terra will follow. And we may

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make our prayers definite; beseeching Heaven that every statesman who tries to lead his people against God, or to do without Him, may, during the Lent of 1936 or soon afterwards, find his plans brought to nothing. We do not need special and elaborate forms of prayer to this end. I t will be enough to put new fervour into our old adveniat regnum tuum, fiat voluntas tua sicut in coelo et ■in terra.

Not all the letters published in recent issues of The Times on the faults and failings of the British Broadcasting Corporation have been reasonable. To a large extent they cancel one another out. One of the most foolish objections is to the effect that the B.B.C. supplies too much music, talk and drama instead of plentifully leaving “ golden hours of silence.” This grumble presumably comes from a person who does not understand the conditions in which hard workers pass their days and evenings. Most of us are so busy from morning till night that we cannot “ listen-in to the wireless ” for more then two or three hours out of the twenty-four. When the B.B.C. gives us music we don’t like, we should remember that one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and that somebody else is getting pleasure from what causes us boredom or exasperation. Moreover, all save the weakest receiving-sets can be profitably tuned to Paris, Stuttgart, Cologne, Brussels, Kalundborg, Hilversum, Sottens, Beromunster, Milan, Rome, Vienna and other stations, thus making us free of many programmes besides those of the B.B.C. A “ golden hour of silence ” is to be had at any moment, by the simple process of switching off the electricity.

Our own postbag has been heavy with letters from listeners, almost all praising the B.B.C. for its behaviour during the octave from the deathnight of the late King George to the day of the royal funeral. Such few complaints as have been made to us are so trivial that, with one considerable exception, we are not printing them.