TH TABLET.
A Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DOM VOBIS GRATULAMÜX, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.
From the B r ie ; o; H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, i i ; o .
V o l . 9 4 . No. 3 0 9 9 .
L o n d o n , S e p t e m b e r 3 0 , 1899. P rice 5<1., by Post s K d
[R e g is tered a t t h e G e n e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.
T t e T r a 0p T«E W e e k :
¡«8 thé RSVaa' C r is is-S t ill Waltdcn"' aér Ç?ply - “ The Inc!’ from M * s,ed — Another Letter Act TV* a—The Vaccination Leiov*JUmi!*lant ~ Obscurantist Pole ¿ % r P^ r.y's Search for the •RefnJÜ. . Viceroy and Land Cha,:?\\" ^nd>a— The Custom of of ab4le Bequest-The Affairs •anal- .* r2entme—Great EarthView *nd'a — An American rr ^English Commerce—The Va ? e Secretary and the TransSQ * Jingoism in Trafalgar'4«are .................................... 5x7 L®AnRRS:
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lLThere no Way but War ? . . 521 4 ‘s|*ons.in the Far E a s t .. . . 522 o,n English Instance . . •• 523
nakespeare’s Philosophy ot Life 523 Jean-Baptiste Carnoy . . . . 527 Notes _ _ _ _ _ 527
CONTENTS.
R ev iew s *
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Cardiff Records . . . . •• 529 The Pope as Bishop and as Pontiff 530 The Magic of the Desert .. . . 531 Light from the East . . . . 531 The Case for Incense . . . . 543 The Lord’s Prayer . . . . 543 A Few Aids to Faith . . .- 5 4 3 C orrespondence :
Rome {From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ~ — — 533 News from Ireland — — 534 News from France.........................534 L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
“ Rennes—and After ” . . . . 535 The Grooming of Our Boys . . 536 Aliens? . . . . # •• •• 536 The Rosary Confraternity . . 536 Fairy R in g s .................................. . 537 “ The Prince of Army Chaplains" 537 The Pope and the Rosary . . . . 537
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The Church and the Dreyfus Case 538 The German People . . . . . . 53Q The Ritual Controversy . . . - 54' The New Franciscan Monastery at
Washington _ . . . . . . 541 Religious Education.. . . . . 542 Coming of Age of Mr. Salvin, of
Croxdale . .
The English Benedictines .. . . 542 A Descendant of Elizabeth of Hun-
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ga iy in Australia . . . . 542 The Ruin of Montserrat . . .. 543 M a r r i a g e s ...........................................544 Books of the W e e k ........................... 545 F rom E veryw h ere . . . .545 So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . « 546
SU PPLEM ENT. N ews from t h e S chools :
Certificate Examination, 1899 549 Catholic Evening Continuation
Classes and School^ Boards . . 550 The Washington University . . 550
N ews from th e D ioceses (Con-,.,
Page tinued : Failures in the Oxford Locals . . 55r The Teaching of Natural Science in Elementary Schools . . . . 551 The School Question at Arundel 551 Sir W. Harcourt on Universal
School Boards and Modern Languages . . . . . . 551 Episcopal Visitors at Clapham
C o l l e g e .......................................552 Football . . 552 N ews from t h e D io ceses : Westminster . . . . ... 552
Southwark . . . . ** . . 553 Birmingham ............................533 Leeds.. ** 553 Liverpool . . 553 Portsmouth.......................................553 Shrewsbury.......................................553 Newport ...................................... 553 Glasgow ....................................... 555
** Rejected MS, cannot be returned unless accoinpanied with address and postage.
N O T A N D A .
Under the title “ A n English Instance,” attention is drawn to certain resemblances between the Dreyfus trial and the pace famous A ch illi case. T h e gross miscarriage o f justice the latter case was never qualified by a remission of the sentence. While the Jew Captain in France found a crowd ° f defenders, the Catholic priest in England found very few. It is noted that the Paris Umvers did what it could to ^adjust the scales o f English justice by opening a subscription in favour o f the illustrious victim o f Protestant prejudice (P- 523)
T h e letter which we publish from Father J. F lynn, S.J., Liverpool, shows that the action recently taken by Father Bannin in offering his schools to the Board for the purpose of Evening Continuation Classes, was taken in L iverpool as far back as 1895, with the gratifying result that there are |X)w no less than eight flourishing Catholic evening schools *0 connection with the Liverpool School Board (p. 550).
T h e p lace o f the now customary October Encyclical on the Rosary is this year taken b y a Circular Letter to the Sishops from the Sacred Congregation o f Indulgences, transmitting the complete and authentic list of the indulgences attached to the recitation of the Rosary, which was promised in the Constitution published last year. Father Procter’s tim ely letter on the Rosary Confraternity may be usefully read in connection with the C ircular from Cardinal G o tti (pp. 537 and 536).
Only second to the loss of Mgr. de Harlez is that suffered by the Catholic University o f Louvain in the death ° f Professor J. B . Carney, Canon o f the diocese o f Tournay, and a corresponding member o f the British Association. T h e merits o f his work and method are shared by the University that, after educating him, called him to fill one o f her Chairs (p. 527).
T h e policy o f the Government in regard to the “ cont e n t i o u s objector ” has been completely and unexpectedly ^indicated. T h e latest returns show that now that vaccinat l°n is no longer compulsory, the number o f persons
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vaccinated has increased enormously. Figures illustrating this surprising change, and reasons in explanation o f it, are given (p. 518).
Some account is given o f the Municipal A rchives o f Cardiff. These contain documents which throw much light upon the feelings o f the people with regard to the change o f religion at the time o f the Reformation. T h e petition o f the Grand Jury o f Cardiff with regard to the condition to which L landaff Cathedral had been reduced, is quoted from (p. 529).
C H R O N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .
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TH E Government has once more, and for the last time, built up a golden bridge o f retreat for President Kruger. Instead o f sending an ultimatum they have sent an interim despatch repeating their former demands, and making their acceptance more easy by a formal guarantee for the independence o f the Republic against foes using British or foreign territory as their base. Nothing could be more solemn or definite than the pledge given in these unequivocal w o rd s : “ H er M a jesty’s Government have on more than one occasion repeated their assurances that they have no desire to interfere in any way with independence o f South African Republic, provided that the conditions on which it was granted are honourably observed in the spirit and in the letter, and they have offered as part o f a general settlement to give a complete guarantee against any attack upon that independence either from within any part o f the British dominions or from the territory of a foreign State.” T h e word “ suzerainty ” is not pressed or even referred to. T h e Boers are told on the contrary that the British Government claims no right to interfere with their internal affairs except such as is conferred by the Conventions, or belong to any neighbouring Government to interfere for the protection o f its citizens. On the other hand, the claim o f the South African R epublic to be an independent sovereign State is expressly repudiated and denied. A s even Mr. John Morley admits that such a claim is inconsistent with the terms o f the Convention, this action on the part of Mr. Chamberlain can hardly be blamed even by those most anxious to safeguard the rights o f the Transvaal. T h e
