THE TABLET u i 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 V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS

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

V o l . 155. No. 4,702.

L o n d o n , J u n e 21, 1930.

S i x p e n c e .

R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e Ge n e r a l P o s t O f f i c e a s a N e w s p a p e r

New s and No t e s ...................8 17 Our Public H ou ses................. 821 Blessed Catherine Thomas,

Canoness Regular . . . 828 “ A Little Child Shall Lead

Them ” ......................... 824 R e v ie w s :

A New Life of Lessius 826 Under the Red Robe . . . 826 A Poet of R e v o l t ................. 827 The Age of Reason . . . 828 New Books and Music . . . 830 Books Received .............. 830

CONTENTS

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Liverpool Cathedral.................831 Progress and Needs in the Westminster Archdiocese 832 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ............................ 835 Catholic Education Notes . . . 836 E t Ce t e r a .............................. 838 Roger B a c o n ............................ 839 From The Tablet of Eighty

Years A g o ............................ 839 The Crusade of Rescue . . . 840

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Coming Eve n t s ...................8 40 The Catholic Workers’ Col­

lege ....................................... 840 Lourdes. A Paralytic Re­

covers ............................ 840 E p is c o p a l E ngagements 841 The New Church at Hay­

wards Heath ................. 841 Speech-Day at Beaumont

College ............................ 841 Ch e s s .......................................... 842 Or b is T errarum :

England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 842

Or b is T errarum (Contd.) :

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Ireland .............. 844 Belgium .............. 844 Canada .............. 846 Czecho-Slovakia 846 France .............. 846 Holland .............. 846 Italy .............. 846 Mexico .............. 846 Palestine .............. 846 Poland .............. 848 Portugal .............. 848 Venezuela .............. 848 School Sports 848 So c ia l and P ersonal 848

NOTANDA

More about the suggestion to “ License the Lot.” In a third and final article a Tablet leader-writer expounds the advantages o f extending the term “ public house ” in the interests o f public prder (p. 821).

Liverpool Cathedral. Some facts and figures as to the plan and size o f Sir Edwin Lutyens’ proposed great church; together with the architect’s first rough sketch o f the exterior (p. 831).

In a Trinity Sunday pastoral His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop surveys the past year’s progress in the Archdiocese o f Westminster (p. 832).

The Church and the Children. An article which incidentally contrasts the treatment o f children as full members o f Christ with the modern cult o f “ the Child ” and “ its ” psychology (p. 824).

A beata o f the Canonesses Regular. The life and work o f Blessed Catalina Thomas (p. 823).

Roger Bacon. The annual commemoration at O x fo rd on the site o f the ancient friary (p. 839).

A year’s work o f the Crusade o f Rescue; with cause fo r remembering a once-poor lad, George Murphy (p. 840).

NEWS AND NOTES A RTICLES, letters, press-cuttings, and inquiries rain into The Tablet’s office on the subject of Malta. A rumour that a reply from the Holy See to our own Government’s Blue Book had been published set the telephone bells tinkling at 6 Adam Street a few days ago, and produced more than one caller wanting information there and then. Patience. The Tablet will deal with the Maltese controversy, as we have already stated, mainly on a basis of documentation, the only basis that can be considered fully satisfactory. In the meantime it is needful to repeat the warning against accepting

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at their face value newspaper statements and summaries appearing in the secular press. Readers of the daily papers are not getting the whole truth about Malta : that much can be said with certainty. In the island itself there is great fear that correspondence is being tampered with. A virtue much to be desired at the present time is that of selfrepression on the part o f speakers and writers who, however uninformed as to the facts, are anxious to air their views. Letters, interviews, statements : these are over-abundant; and they tend only to add to the difficulties of the situation.

From useful friends in several European lands we receive word that the Simon Report has already done good by enlightening some of our ill-informed censors. While Britons have justly been blamed for knowing so little of India, certain of our own publicists have absurdly taken it for granted that the Empire’s foreign detractors know what they are talking about. TheTablet’s friends on the Continent assure us that the general ignorance has been abysmal. Great Britain has been despised on the ridiculous assumption that she is imperiously denying self-government to a homogeneous, politically conscious and United India. It is an eye-opener when such critics find that the task which we have successfully accomplished up to now has had to do with hundreds o f religions, rites, races and languages. Not that the Report itself has been studied abroad. For once, the showy headlines in our more popular dailies have done good b y presenting crucial and hitherto unknown facts in so striking a way that even dawdlers in hotel-lounges have read them. The Report has also done good by demonstrating plainly to the many a fact which has long been known to the f e w : namely, the unintelligent and unjust intransigence of the Indian Nationalists. Whatever they may think about the proposals adumbrated by the Simon Commissioners, the Nationalists ought to know that they and we have been placed in possession of statistics immensely valuable to every sincere reformer.