T H E T A B L E T
A W e e k l y N e w s p a p e r a n d
DUM V O B I S GRATULAMUR AN IM O S E T IA M ADDIM US UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S CONSTANTER M A N E A T IS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V ol. 156. No. 4,716. L ondon, September 27, 1930.
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New s and No t e s ...................3 93 Les Misérables ................. 397 Cardinal Moran : 1830-1911 398 “ O.S.B.” 399 Orate Pro R u s s i a ................. 400 Notes for Musicians . . . 400 R e v ie w s :
Fillion’ s Magnum Opus . . . 400 Prévost in England . . . 401 Mediæval Symbolism . . . 401 The Millenium .................402 New Books and Music . . . 403 Books Received ................. 404
CONTENTS
Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen ................. 405 Abbot Seaton’s Golden
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Jubilee ............................405 Sermons for the Times . . . 406 L etters to the E d i t o r :
Catholic B e lg ium .................406 Dr. Major and Catholic M o r a l i t y ............................ 406 The Maronites .................407 From The Tablet of Eighty
Years A g o ............................ 407
Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
Page spondent’s Weekly Letter from ) .............................. 409 Ch e s s .......................................... 410 E t Ct e t e r a .............................. 411 Catholic Education Notes . . . 412 Ob it u ary .............................. 413 Coming E vents .................. 414 W i l l .......................................... 414 Or b is T errarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ............................414 Ireland ............................415
Or b is T errarum (Contd.) :
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Belgium ............................ 416 British East Africa . . . 416 Czechoslovakia ................. 416 France ............................ 416 Germany ............................418 Hungary ............................418 I t a l y .......................................418 Poland ............................418 South Africa ................. 418 Spain 420 Switzerland .................420 Yugoslavia 420 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 420
NOTANDA
A neglected aspect o f Unemployment. The almost hopeless plight o f the “ out-of-w ork ” in a black coat (p. 397).
The Month o f the Rosary. A short Sermon fo r the Time (p. 406).
“ O .S .B .” More about the strange letter from a Belgian Catholic to an English Protestant (p. 399).
Cardinal Moran. An admirer’s centenary tribute to the work, in Australia, o f a great churchman and educationist (p. 398).
Lord Rothermere again. Mischievous support fo r the Hitlerite Repudiationists (p. 394).
Russia. New reasons fo r saying earnestly the old prayers (p. 400).
A devoted brancardier’s forty visits to Lourdes— the fortieth with a difference (p. 411).
The centenary o f St. Mary’s, Hexham. The story, in brief, o f a famous North Country parish (p. 411).
The Five-days Week. What will be done with the Two-days Leisure? (p. 396).
A Spiritist’s notion o f the Catholic Church (p. 394).
NEWS AND NOTES N E X T Wednesday— the first day of October— is to see the opening o f the Imperial Conference. The Gospel for that morning is the Parable of the Talents ; and it is timely. Just now there is a tendency, especially in the Home Country, to adopt a mere caretaker’s view o f the British Empire. W e mean that some people aim at nothing more than the staving-off of disaster from the British Commonwealth o f Nations. They are like a small-minded steward who is quite content if he can keep the fences standing up round the park and can stop the rain from leaking through the roofs of the mansion,
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with never a thought of developing the estate’s resources. But the Providence which has called the British Empire to pL y so great a part in the world has a use for us yet. We are bound to employ our Five Talents— our power, our prestige, our wealth, our political wisdom and, above all, our Christianity— for the good of mankind. Russian affairs alone would suffice to give us opportunities of using our talents not less grand than the grandest opportunities which have come to us in the earlier course of our history. Not an Empire put into cold storage, but an Empire warmly alive is the Empire which the Imperial Conference must serve.
Our brethren from beyond the seas have arrived in the old country at the moment of a new European excitement. On the very eve of the German General Election, The Tablet predicted that certain noisy dogs which had been let loose for electioneering purposes would not be willing to return quietly to their kennels and their leashes. What we foresaw is now plain to everybody. Last Saturday there were ugly clashes, on a large scale, between the police and the Nazis in Berlin. Herr Gobbels, who is Adolf Hitler’s chief-of-staff, shouted out to a huge audience that if the National Socialists cannot attain to power in a legal way they will seize it by illegal means. Speaking in Hanover, a certain Herr Claff declared that the German people have not lost their furor teutonicus. And these are only two specimens from a multitude of similar utterances.
Easy-going observers of German events say there is nothing to worry about. Against the wild words of the extreme Right, they would have us set the boasts of the extreme Left. While the Nazis have naturally been boasting over their six million votes, the Communists have been equally vocal and are raising the slogan “ four million and a half of votes for a Soviet Germany.” Our optimists calmly say that the two hordes of extremists balance one another and should be regarded as practically cancelling one another out. This is foolish talk. Where have the
