THE TABLET. A Weekly Newspaper and Review.

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From the Brie/ oj H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T a b l e t , June 4, i&jo.

V ol. 94. No. 3101. L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 14» 1899*

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tary Position — Co-operation of Australia— Sir Henry CampbellBannerman’s Appeal--Mr. Morley and the Crisis — The Duke of Devonshire at Sheffield — Lord Rosebery and Mr. Asquith on the Crisis— The Conscience Clause in Board Schools— The Navigation of the St. Lawrence— A Dublin Parnell Demonstration — SpiritDrinking— The Finance of France rrWill the Leicester Guardians Turn Tail ? .................................... 597 •-Raders :

The Object of the War . . . . 601 •Re-organization of the Education

Department •. •• • • 602

C O N 7 E N T S .

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A Pre-Reformation Document . . 603 Shakespeare’s Philosophy of Life 604 N o t e s ... — — — — 607 R eviews :

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The Romance of Ludwig I I . of

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The Oxford English Dictionary 611 A French View o f America . . 611 Pious Anecdotes . . •• •• 622 The Shadow on the Manse . . 623 A Booklet for Young Men . . 623 Seventy-one Not Out . . •• 623 C orrespon d e n c e :

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spondent) . . — — — 613 News from Ireland — « .6 14 News from F rance.. •. •• 614

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :

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Repudiating the “ F u n d a mentals” . . . . . . •• 615 More Protestant Lectures Wanted 616 The Grooming of Our Boys . . 616 The Genesis of Anglicanism . . 6 1 6 An Inquiry . . .. . . •• 616 “ Materialism, Naturalism, and

Agnosticism” . . . . . . 6 1 7 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 618 Silver Jubilee of the Bishop of

Nottingham . . . . . . 619 Foundation-stone of a New Church at Blairs College .. . . . . 621 Nobbs Alias Widdows . . . . 621 Salford Bumbledom . . . . . . 6 2 1 O b it u a r y . . ........................... 623 Books o f the W e e k ......................... 625 S o c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . « 6 2 5

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The Gospels in the Schoolroom . . 629 What Belgium Can Teach Us . . 630 Chairman of the London School

Board’s Annual Statement . . 631 Religious Colleges and the Lycées in F r a n c e ....................................... 631 Football ....................................... 631 N ew s from t h e D io c e se s :

Westminster . . . . ... 631 Southwark . . . . ** . . 633 Birmingham . . . . . . 633 Clifton . . . . ... . . 633 Hexham and Newcastle . . . . 633 Leeds . . ** ......................... 633 N o ttin gham .......................................634 Salford . ......................... 63/« Newport . . . . . . 634 The Pope and the Friars Minor . . 634

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A letter from Mr. Lister Drummond tells of a conversion under somewhat surprising circumstances (p. 616).

N O T A N D A .

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

A letter from the Bishop of Salisbury to Pope Boniface IX . in the year 1395 is giveD, with some comment upon its significance for the controversialist of to-day. An extract from the commonplace book of John Shyllingford in the year 1393 shows the views of an ordinary English parish Priest in the 14th century as to the obedience due to the Moly See (p. 603).

Attention is called to the liberties which the London School Board has permitted itself to take with the Conscience Clause. While the A c t insists that parents shall be at liberty to withdraw their children from the religious instruction given in a Public Elementary school “ without forfeiting any of the other benefits o f the school, the London School Board actively discriminates against the children who are not present at the religious instruction if provides. Further steps to be taken on the subject are indicated (pp. 599, 602).

The object o f Cardinal Vannutelli’s letter to Friars Minor is explained. T h e idea that the Holy Father had intended ‘to impose upon the Franciscans the teaching of St. Thomas to the exclusion of the great theologians o f their own Order is shown to be mistaken (p. 634).

A verbatim report o f the admirable discourse delivered by Mgr. Parkinson, the Rector o f Oscott. upon the occasion ■ of the funeral o f Canon McCave, passes in review the ^hole of the varied career of that singularly energetic and devoted priest (p. 623).

The circumstances o f the prohibition by the French Government of the consecration of the abbey church at Lontgombault are told in detail. T h e connection between ibis blow at the Benedictines, and the new policy of persecution announced by M. Millerand, is pointed out (p. 615).

The words of the Volkszeitung o f Cologne are quoted in connection with the long delay on the part of the Prussian Government in allowing the vacant see of Cologne to be oiled. T h e bondage to the civil power which makes such delays possible is contrasted with the happier system which exists in England (p. 608).

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ON Tuesday afternoon came the eventful news that the Boers had ordered the British armyout of South Africa. Mr. Reitz,the State Secretary, addressing the British

Agent in Pretoria, in writing on Saturday, stated with great emphasis that Great Britain had no right to intervene or even make diplomatic representations concerning the position o f the Uitlanders unless in connection with Article X IX . of the Convention o f 1884, which has reference solely to civil rights. Questions o f the franchise and the representation of the people belonged solely to the Government of the Republic. T h e Queen’s Government is then accused of assuming a threatening tone, and so causing a condition o f extreme tension in the whole o f South Africa. Noting the failure of the negotiations about the franchise, Mr. Reitz complains that the intention o f the British Government to formulate its own proposals for a final settlement is a new violation o f the Convention. These proposals, moreover, though promised, have not been m a d e ; and in the meanwhile troops have been stationed close to the borders o f the Republic. T h e Boer Government regards the presence of such a force near its frontier as a menace to its independence, and feels obliged in the interest of all South Africa to make an end of an intolerable condition o f things, and so formulates four demands as thus : “ (a ) That all points o f mutual difference shall be regulated by the friendly course o f arbitration or by whatever amicable way may be agreed upon by this Government with her Majesty’s Governm en t; (b ) that the troops on the borders of this Republic shall be instantly withdrawn; (c) that all reinforcements of troops which have arrived in South Africa since the 1st of June, 1899, shall be removed from South Africa within a reasonable time, to be agreed upon with this Government, and with a mutual assurance and guarantee on the part of this Government that no attack upon or hostilities against any portion of the possessions of the British Government shall be made by the Republic during fuither negotiations within a period o f time to be subsequently agreed upon between the Governments, and this Government will, on compliance therewith,

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