THE TABLET u4 Weekly N ew s p a p e r 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.
V ol. 155. No. 4,699.
L ondon, Ma y 31, 1930.
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R eg is tered at the General P ost Of f i c e as a New spaper
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News and No t e s ................. 713 The Trevelyan B i l l ................. 717 Three Russian Women . . . 719 Episcopal Engagements 719 R eview s :
1870 .................................... 720 Don B o s c o ............................ 721 Advice for Lambeth . . . 722 Our Lady of Montallegro 722 Mr. Walpole’s Bid for Fame 722 Books Received . . . . .. 723 New Books and Music . . . 724 The Catholic Theatre . . . 724 Catholic Education Notes . . . 725 The Whitsuntide Novena to the Holy G h o s t ................. 726
CONTENTS
After the Eucharistic Con
gress ...................... The Battersea Procession . Our Lady of Lourdes Obitu ary ........................ Coming E ve n t s . . . Chess ................................. Correspondence :
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728 728
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 731 New Catenian Circles . . . 732 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o ............................ 733 In Birmingham ................. 733
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New Training School for
Nurses ............................ 733 Et Ce t e r a ............................ 734 Letters to the Editor :
Hospital S u n d a y ................. 736 “ A Deplorable Impres
sion ”
School Time-Tables . . . 737 ORBIS TERRARUM :
736
England, Scotland and Wales ......................... 737 Ireland ......................... 739 Belgium ......................... 740 Ceylon .............. . .. 740 China ......................... 740 France ......................... 740
Or b i s Terrarum (Oontd.) :
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Germany ............................ 742 Hungary ............................ 742 Liberia ............................ 742 Madagascar ................. 742 Norway ............................ 742 Paraguay ............................ 742 Poland ............................ 742 Portuguese West A fr ica ... 744 Spain .............. . . . 744 Tanganyika 744 Uganda ............................ 744 Yugo-Slavia ................. 744 Social and Personal . . . 744
NOTANDA
The Rushing o f the Trevelyan Bill. What Mgr. Bidwell did and did not say to 126 Labour Members (p. 717).
A Tablet Note-writer explains why Catholic journalists habitually wrote in friendly terms concerning the late Lord Davidson (p. 714).
1870. Abbot Butler's carefully wrought and readable volumes on the Vatican Council. An ill-considered memorial to the late Professor Bury (p. 720).
“ Three Russian W om en.” The Countess Bennigsen’s timely recall o f heroism and nobility in the Volkonsky family (p. 718).
A last instalment o f Notes on the British Drama League’s unfortunate award. One o f the offending passages in Mr. Sladen-Smith’s play reproduced verbatim (p. 716). Our Lady’s Players perform two good plays (p. 724).
The Whitsuntide Novena (p. 726). Lord Strickland’s happy escape from a wild man’s bullets; and a blameworthy article in the Sunday Times (p. 714).
A memorial to Cardinal Merry del Val (p. 714).
NEW S AND NOTES
P A R T Y politics are exceptionally interesting to 4 Catholics just now. Parliament is being asked to press forward an Education Bill which, on the strength of an Unholy Alliance between the old foes of definite Christian teaching and some of its former champions, denies justice to “ non-provided ” schools and attempts to lay new burdens on Catholics. The House of Commons which is being urged to do this thing is a House more than usually divided against itself. Not only are the standing lines of cleavage between the three great Parties clear and deep, but there are many other cracks.
New Series. Vol. CXTIII. No. 4,098.
In the Labour Party, the Mosley Schism is additional to the Clyde Revolt. Among the Conservatives, who are making an important change in their organization, there are some who hail Lord Beaverbrook as a deliverer and others who vote him a nuisance. As for the Liberals, their constituents are unhappy in the knowledge that Mr. Lloyd George’s party abstains from voting after important debates. W ith the floor of the House in this fissured condition, Liberals must be wary. I f they stamp their feet too vigorously to encourage the adversaries of our schools, they may find their Party descending ungracefully into the cellar.
Lord Davidson’s death has removed one more great Briton from a scene in which great Britons no logger abound. Knowing as we did that he could not be expected to speak enthusiastically about those of us who were unable to acknowledge him as the Successor o f St. Augustine, we accustomed ourselves to hear and read His Grace’s opinions with a constant sense of his peculiar difficulties. On social questions he was one of the Upper Chamber’s chief ornaments. In ecclesiastical affairs he was regarded by a few ill-informed Catholics as a “ Facing Bothways.” This was untrue. As a courtier (though never a sycophant), Randall Davidson served a Queen who was an Anglican at Windsor and a Presbyterian at Balmoral ; and for a long time he had an archiépiscopal Brother of York who was, like himself, an ex-Presbyterian. Thus it came to pass that Comprehensiveness in Randall Davidson’s eyes was not, as it has been with some other Anglicans, an insincere euphemism for Inconsistency, but an enviable attribute of the Established Church. This faith in her Comprehensiveness was the secret of the late Primate’s policy. Not from a cowardly preference for peace and quietness did he bid the champions of mutually contradictory creeds co-exist in the Church of England on the live-and-let-live principle. Although he did not state it in this way to the public — and probably not even to himself— he seems to have held that the Truth, if we could envisage it
