THE TABLET MLW eekly N e w s p a p e r a n d R e v i e w

DUM V O B I S G R A T U L A M U R A N IM O S E T I A M A D D IM U S U T I N IN C C E P T I S V E S T R I S C O N S T A N T E R M A N E A T I S

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

V o l . 155. No. 4,678.

L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 4 , 19 3 0 .

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New s and Nc t e s ................ 1 Orale Fratres.......................... 5 “ AH Those Madonnas” . . . 5 King George V and Pope

Pius X I .......................... 6 From The Tablet of Eighty

Years A g o .......................... 6 Encyclical Letter .............. 7 R e v ie w s :

“ Theology Made E asy” 11 From Poland via Paris . . . 11

CONTENTS

R e v ie w s ( contd.) :

A Picture Gallery for

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Youngsters .............. 11 A White Umbrella . . . 12 New Books and Music . . . 12 1929 : Some Events of the

Y e a r ............................ 13 Coming E ve n t s ................ 14 Correspondence :

Rome (Our Own Corre­

spondent’s Weekly Letter from) ......................... 17

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Sermons in Nine Languages 20 Catholic Education Notes . . . 20 London Examination Results 21 E t C.e t e r a ............................ 22 Ob it u a r y ............................ 23 E p is c o p a l Engagemnts . . . 23 L e t t e r s to the Ed i t o r :

A Church Unity Octave 24 Cruel “ Sport ” .............. 24 The Curate of Kew . . . 24 Or b i s Terrarum :

England, Scotland and Wales .......................... 24

Orb i s T errarum {Contd.) :

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Ireland ......................... 25 Argentina ......................... 25 China ......................... 25 Czecho-Slovakia .............. 26 Fiji .................................... 26 France ......................... 26 India 26 Japan ......................... 27 Oceania ......................... 27 South Africa .............. 27 Spain ......................... 28 Forty Hours’ Exposition . . . 28 So c ia l and P ersonal . . . 28

NOTANDA Our H o ly Father’s call to prayer. The Tablet presents a full translation o f the Encyclical Mens Nostra, and offers a brief comment upon it (pp. 5, 7-10).

King George the Fifth to Pope Pius the Ninth. A cordial message (p. 6).

Many columns o f news from The Tablet’s own correspondent in Rome. Crowded davs (pp. 17-20).

Nuncios as doyens o f diplomatic corps. A discussion in Berlin. Mr. Arthur Henderson’s attitude towards Muscovy and Papacy (p. 2).

Germany. Some unwelcome facts about the Hugenberg minority (p. 3).

The Pope and the persecuted Easterns. An Orthodox testimony against the disgraceful statement o f Messrs. Milner-W hite and Knox (p. 2).

An Episcopate which nor leads nor teaches. A Tablet note-writer makes a friendly comment on the Archbishop o f Canterbury’s New Year Message (p. 2 ).

Catholic Old Masters at Burlington House. Some preliminary observations (p. 5).

NEWS AND NOTES B Y the time these lines are under the eyes of the men and women to whom they are addressed, the New Year will not be quite New. Nevertheless we offer the customary greetings ; cordially hoping and praying that the remaining three hundred and sixty-one days will be enriched with health and true happiness for all our readers.

Before 1930 is many months old, The Tablet’s ninetieth birthday will be here : because it was on May 16 , 1840, that the first number of .this weekly newspaper and review— now the oldest Catholic

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paper in the British Empire— was published. If he be so disposed, the compiler of our weekly paragraphs headed “ From The Tablet of Eighty Years Ago ” will be able to change Eighty into Ninety. That those Catholic journalists who now direct the paper will be in their chairs in 1940 for the Centenary o f The Tablet is unlikely; but they are determined that Rejuvenescence rather than Senility or Second Childhood shall characterize the tenth decade of this enterprise. The Tablet is a Catholic institution of proved and growing usefulness to the Church ; and therefore it is from no selfish motive that we ask its friends to work with us for a steady increase in its circulation. And they can help us in other ways. The readers (not all of them Catholics) who have furnished the Editor with authenticated materials for his “ News and Notes ” have not always been individually thanked ; and in many cases no direct mention has been made in print o f their communications. None the less, their painstaking aid has been o f immense value. More than once last year we were able, without mentioning the affair in “ News and Notes ’ ’ at all, to give a calumniator of the Church the shock of his life at finding that what he had said in a hole or a corner had reached our ears ; and, although the retractations have been grudging, they have been made.

Prudent and patriotic Britons will make neither too little nor too much o f this week’s “ National Congress ” at Lahore.

I t would be easy to compose a neat paragraph plausibly ridiculing the Congress. Indeed, some of its com ic relief is too precious to go unchronicled. There was the monumental misprint o f the Lahore Tribune which described its portrait of Pandit Motilal Nehru as “ Our Outraging President.” And, according to The Times, there was this pure gem in one o f the official reports :

Indian Students are the flower of the country. Any of them could surpass Shakespeare, Milton or Huxley. I f God helps them, they may even outstrip Lloyd George..