THE TABLET s i W eek ly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS CONSTANTER MANEATIS
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
Vol. 1 5 6 . No. 4 ,7 0 8 .
L o n d o n , A u g u s t 2 , 19 3 0 .
S i x p e n c e .
R m i s t x u d at t h * G eneral P o i t Offxc* a i a Ni w i f a f u
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New s and No t e s ...... 137 A Pleasant Afternoon . . . 141 St. Olave of Norway . . . 144 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o .................... 145 R e v ie w s : Miracle ............................ 145
A Forgotten Oracle . . . 146 No Mirror of Monks . . . 146 Outstanding Novels . . . 148 Our Early Latin Litera
ture ............................ 148
CONTENTS
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New Books and Music . . . 149 Coming E vents .................. 150 School Sports ...................1 50 Books Received ................. 150 Prisoners’ Aid ................. 151 Ch e s s .......................................... 151 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) ............................... 153 London University Exami
nations ............................ 154 E t Ca s t e r a ...............................155
Catholic Education Notes . . . 156 L e tters to the Ed i t o r :
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Animals and the Holidays 157 Sizergh Castle ................. 157 “ British Lazzaroni” . . . 157 Merrion Square ................. 158 Lord A cton 158 Ob it u ary ............................... 158 W i l l .......................................... 158 Orb i s T errarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ............................ 159 Ireland ............................ 160 Canada ............................ 160
Orbis Terrarum
France
Germany
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Greece
Italy
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Mexico
Morocco
Persia
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Poland
Russia
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The Bishop of Shrewsbury’s
Golden Jubilee .............. 164 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 164
NOTANDA Pope-baiting at Leeds. A Tablet writer examines the general practice o f Pleasant Afternoons in religion and deals particularly with a recent instance (P; 141).
“ St. Lubbock’s.” Dominican thoughts fo r the imminent Bank Holiday (p. 137).
Canada’s General Election. The end o f an accidental alliance (p. 138).
Some o f Their Majesties’ Catholic guests at the royal Garden Party (p. 155).
More about “ Temperance ” statistics. How eleven per cent, becomes “ nearly all.” Preposterous leaflets from a house in Sussex (p. 139).
St. O la f ’ s heroic death. A celebration nine hundred years after (pp. 140, 144).
Help fo r the discharged prisoner. The Catholic Prisoners’ A id S o c ie ty : its work and its needs (p. 151).
Then and Now. H ow Poplar discovered that £1 weekly was too extravagant a sum fo r its Catholic teacher’s salary; and o f what has happened since (p. 159).
N E W S A N D N O T E S '\ / 'E A R by year, it has been The Tablet’s custom to write something about the coincidence of August Bank Holiday with this, that, or the other Feast of the Catholic Church. To none of the other Bank Holidays does liturgical variety belong. Boxing Day is always the Feast of St. Stephen ; and Easter Monday and Whit Monday are what their names declare them to be. In the Roman Missal they have their own Propers.
The coming “ St. Lubbock’s Day ” will be also the Feast of St. Dominic ; and the prayer which Holy Church has provided for the day’s Mass is appropriate in this time of national stress. “ Bow down Thine ear to his prayers, and suffer not Thy Church at any time to lack temporal help or ever to cease from heaping up spiritual riches.” In this English rendering, our idiom demands the word “ or ” ; but there is no suggestion in the Latin (which reads et) of alternatives. We may boldly ask for both the temporal help and the spiritual progress ; not merely for one or the other. Thus does this beautiful prayer, in the original, reject the notion that if we “ get on ” in business we must almost necessarily fear a set-back for our souls ; or the converse notion that temporal straits are essential to the soul’s free growth. Temporalia auxilia are to be indeed “ aids ” to spiritualia incrementa, like stakes supporting vigorous plants ; not like cockle fighting with the wheat.
Not only St. Dominic’s Proper but St. Dominic himself maji well occupy our minds next Monday morning. This man, whom his detractors picture as a barking, sharp-fang’d Domini canis, or Hound of the Lord, was so filled with love for his fellow-man that he tried to sell himself into slavery in order to liberate others from the Moors, and he sold his few beloved books, annotated during years of study, to help the poor. But he was no sentimentalist. Coming face to face with the Albigensian havoc, he saw plainly that no quarter must be given to that momentarily kind but ultimately calamitous notion “ It doesn’t matter what people believe so long as they’re in good faith.” Nor would he have had sympathy with the flabby idea— so prevalent just now in England— that Bishops must content themselves with mere expostulation when they see their flocks wandering towards the lairs of wolves or yielding to the deceits of false shepherds.
As for Bank Holiday as distinguished from the usual work-a-day Fourth of August, we can find in St. Dominic an example. When a young man, surrounded by levity and dissipation, Dominic was a pattern of modesty and self-control. The Gregory
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