THE TABLET y i W e ek ly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w DUM V O B I S GRATULAMUR A N IM O S E T IA M ADDIM U S UT IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R I S CON STAN TER M AN EAT IS
From the Brief o f His Holiness Pius IX to The Tablet, June 4,1870.
V o l . 155. No. 4,680.
L ondon, January 18, 1930.
S ixpence.
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New s and No t e s ................ 65 Britannia Shares the Waves 69 “ Quinquagesimo Ante
Anno ” 71 From The Tablet of Eighty-
Years Ago................... 72 R e v i e w s :
The Protomartyr of the
English Seminaries . . . 72 Mr. Cole Once More . . . 72 A Convert Queen.............. 73 Blessed Brother John . .. 73
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R e v ie w s ( contd.) :
Zeitpoltergeist 1 74 Lord Iialsbury .............. 74 Books Received .............. 74 New Books and Music . . . 76 Catholic Education Notes . . . 77 Mgr. Hinsley’s New Post . . . 78 Ob it u ary ............................ 78 Coming E v e n t s ................ 79 Correspondence :
Rome (Our Own Corre
spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 81
L etters to the E d it o r :
The Hon. Henry Edward
Dormer .............. . . . S3 The Qualifications of the
Rev. Wilfrid Knox . . . 83 Papal Titles .............. 83 William Pitt .............. 84 Christian Art. An Antwerp
E x h ib i t i o n ................... 84 E t C /E TERA..................... 84 Ch e s s ................................. 86 Orb i s T errarum :
England, Scotland and Wales ......................... 86 Ireland ......................... 87
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Or b is T errarum (Contd.) :
Basutoland
Brazil
China
Dahomey
France
Germany
India
Italy ...
Liberia
Portugal
Senegal
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E p is c o p a l E ngagements 92 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 92
NOTANDA Tw o more Encyclicals. A summary o f Quinquagesimo ante anno and a preliminary Note concerning the H o ly Father’s great Letter on Education (pp. 65, 71).
Ireland. The Papal Nuncio on Free State soil. A caveat (p. 65).
The Tiverton Staghounds. Mr. Yandle’s discourteous and uncandid rejoinder. And a few words about Lord Latymer’s manners (p. 68).
South Indian Protestant Reunion. A good Guardian article and some strange advice from Lord Hugh Cecil (p. 66).
A ll Unquiet on the Home Front. Is a big political reconstruction at hand? (p. 65).
The Royal Wedding in Rome, and its attendant rejoicings. An account by The Tablet’s Rome Correspondent (pp. 81-2).
Jurisdiction over nine million square miles. A rch bishop Hinsley’s new and great field o f labour (p. 78).
The mosaic decoration o f Westminster Cathedral. W ho will hasten the pace o f its future uninterrupted progress? (p. 85).
NEW S AND NOTES B EFORE us lies the Italian text of one of the longest Encyclicals ever sent forth by His Holiness Pope Pius X I . I f we do not adorn our present Note with extracts from the document, it is because the Tipografìa Poliglotta Vaticana is at this very moment busily producing copies of official translations into the principal languages of Christendom. As soon as the English version arrives in London, we shall commence its unabridged publication, in weekly instalments. The Encyclical is wholly concerned with “ The Christian Education o f Youth.” It firmly lays down Catholic principles
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on the respective rights of the Church, the Family, and the State ; and it goes on to treat some practical problems, such as certain fashionable notions on Co-education. So closely reasoned a Letter will require careful study ; and therefore we refrain from offering an epitome which indolent readers might substitute for the Encyclical itself.
A fiery crescent received the Sovereign Pontiff’s Nuncio when his boat steamed into Irish waters last Tuesday. The great curve from Howth to Bray was lit up by joy-fires all along its five and twenty miles. The Archbishop of Dublin, the President o f the Free State Executive and the Minister o f External Affairs, received His Grace as he stepped ashore; and the State motor-car was hailed by cheering thousands as it ran, with an escort o f cavalry, from Kingstown into Dublin. A report of the Free State’s welcome to Mgr. Paschal Robinson will appear in next week’s Tablet. Meanwhile, in as few words as possible, we would put Catholics on their guard against newspaper stories— some malicious, some only silly — tending to weaken the new Nunciature. For examples, it is untrue that “ pressure from another country ” determined the Sovereign Pontiff’s choice of Mgr. R ob in son ; and/or that the Nuncio in Dublin will in any way seek to influence ecclesiastical affairs, or occupy himself with them, in England, Scotland, or Wales. The Tablet, which was temporarily a Dublin paper eighty years ago, and is to-day a sincere well-wisher of the Free State, joins cordially in the welcome to His Grace the Archbishop of Tyana, for his own fine qualities as well as for his august position as Nuncio of our Holy Father.
British home-politics promise both static and dynamic changes. “ The Maxton Revolt ” against Moderate dominance in the Labour Government is troublesome ; and the movements for unhorsing Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Lloyd George are still more formidable. Mr. Baldwin’s adversaries are again
