THE TABLET.

A Weekly Newspaper a n d Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS O f IN INCŒPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.

F r o m t h e B n e j o j H i s F l o l i t i e s s P i u s I X . t o T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4 , i b / O .

V o l . 94. N o . 3106.

L o n d o n , N o v e m b e r i 8 , 1899.

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[ R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l Post O f f i c e as a N ewspaper.

'C h ronicle of t h e W e e k ; : Page

The War in the West and Sout h

Father Matthews’ Story— Pouring in Reinforcements— In Praise ° f the Protector— Lord Salisbury and the War—The Future of South Africa — Opening of the French Chamber — The Early Strategy of the W a r— Ironclad Friendship — Atlantic Liner in Flames — Italy and the Pope— The Automobile Club— Reported Death of General Joubert . headers:

797 ’ 8oi

‘ The Church” and “ TheHorse England an 1 Germany in the

Pacific . . . . . . Or. Leyds and “ The Tablet ’ .. Tk o -^ ev? Spirit . . . . . . S04

802 S03

ne Situation in France . . . . 835

C O N 7 E N T S .

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Death of Lady Margaret Howard . . 806 N o t e s . . — — — . . 808 R ev ie w s :

The Eve of the Reformation _ 809 Sailor Life in San Francisco . . 810 The Spirit and the Incarnation . . 811 Agnosticism and Common Sense 811 The Duties of Parents . . . . 811 The Ideal New Woman after Real

Old Models ......................... 811 Builders of the Waste . . . . 821 Truth and E r r o r ............................ 821 C orrespon d e n c e :

R im e :—(From Our Own Cor a*

spondent) . . . . — — 813 News from Ireland ~ 814 News from France............................815 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :

Jesuit Obedience . . . . . . S16

L e t t e r s t o t h e E d it o r (Con- Page tinu ed): T h i Music at the Brompton

Oratory . . . . . . . . 816 A Hymn to St. Peter . . . . 816 The Ragged School Children of

London . . . . . . . . 816 For Soldiers Killed in Battle . . 816 E t Crntera . . . . . . . . 817 St. Joseph’s Foreign Missionary

Society, Mill Hill, N .W . . . 818 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 819 Sugar Beets at Newnham Paddox 820 The Question of the D ay . . . . 821 The Mission Field in Persia . . 822 Last Services in St. Mary’s, Moor-

fields . . . . . . . . . . 823 The Land of the Boers . . . . 823 “ The Daily M a il-’ and the “ Voce

Della V e r i t a ” ......................... 824

Mgr. Nugent's House of P ro v iJ en c f 8?! Books of the Week . . . . . 824 O b i t u a r y ........................... “ 3 * So c ia l a n d P o l i t i c a l . . 1 ’ 825

S U P P L EM E N T . N ews from t h e S chools :

The School and the Hungry Child 829 The London School Board and

Voluntary Schools . . . .8 2 0 N ew s from t h e D io ceses :

Westminster . . . . Sou thw a rk ....................... m\ gar Birmingham . . . . *.*. 83 c Liverpool . . . . ” 331 Nottingham....................... ' g, 2 Newport ....................... *. g32 Glasgow .....................................g 3, Nobhs .Vlias “ Widdovvs ” . . . . 833

Rejected M S . cannot be returned unless accompanied with address and postage.

N O T A N D A .

n Dr. Mivart’s recent statement that “ in sober truth 1 the church ’ has no existence anywhere in the world, but only a number o f men and women, who have real relations to ‘ heir surroundings,” is examined and shown to be untenable (?■ 801).

.T h e Secretary’s Report o f S ’ . Joseph’s Foreign Missionary Society gives an account of encouraging progress Sn. ‘ he work promoted by the Society. A letter from «¡shop Hanlon shows that though two-thirds o f the Uganda railway is now completed, transport in the Protectorate is S!>11 a matter of great difficulty (p. 818).

A letter said to have been written by Dr. Leyds in reply an enquiry by Mr. William Redmond, M .P ., as to the Position of Catholics in the Transvaal is contrasted with a statement made by Mr. Brodrick in the House of Commons and with the evidence of a Catholic Uitlander (p. 803). , The injustice o f the Boer oligarchy is forcibly illustrated hy the Solicitor-General for Canada, wheD, in a letter to the S°leil of Quebec, he asks his readers to imagine the PrcviQce unc]er the rule of a similar oligarchy drawn entirely ,r°m the English minority (p. 821).

.Attention is drawn to Dr. Gasquet’s studies in connection "’¡‘ h the pre-Reformation era. Typical instances are given of ‘ he sort of friction which existed between the Church and tae. State arising out of controversies concerning matters jvhich lay in the debateable borderland between the two Jurisdictions (p. 809).

A report o f the County Court case, brought by the ^-convict Widdows against Mr. Alfred Riches, of Gorleston, suows how the plaintiff got his deserts in defeat-, with 05ts (P- 833).

phe Daily M a il's suggestion that the Voce della Verita had t u1Wished a deliberate incitement to the Boers to slaughter eir British prisoners of war has been met by a challenge u the part o f the Italian journal to state the number, page, uiumn and line in which so infamous a proposition is to be foucd (p. 824).

New S eries. Vol. LX II., No. 2,415.

T h e account o f the last services in St. Mary’s, Moorfields, reminds us that a unique Catholic landmark in the City, hallowed with many memoiies, will soon disappear (F- 823)- ._____________

C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K

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TH E sands are running out, and still the Boers have so far made w e s t a n d s o u t h . . n0 use of their opportunities against either Mafeking or Kimberley.

T h e defence o f the former place has been a brilliant exploit, and one which has been o f splendid service to the whole scheme for repelling invasion from the Cape Colony. Colonel Baden-Powell is outnumbered by about eight to one, but though the bffik of his force consists o f irregular troops, he has so harried the enemy that their bombardment has been wholly ineffective. This week brings news of a sortie at night in which the advanced trenches were successfully attacked, our men “ getting in with the bayonet.” Six men killed and two officers wounded was the price paid for this success, which caused the enemy to shift his ground and laager twc miles from the town. On the last day o f October the enemy, after doing their best with artillery, came out into the open and tried to take the town by assault. They were beaten back with great loss, but killed five o f the defenders, including two officers. I f Colonel Baden-Powell holds out he will have satisfaction o f feelmg that he has occupied the attention o f 4,000 men during a critical period the war. I f Mafeking had surrendered and the investing force had joined the troops besieging Kimberley, there would have been 10,000 men ready to join the 5,000 on the banks of the Orange River, and then the invasion of the Cape Colony in its most disaffected district would have been an easy t a s k ; in fact, the whole country lay naked before them. The time for that has gone by, but the defenders o f both Mafeking and Kimberley have deserved well of the Empire. Thanks to these two garrisons there has been little bloodshed so far in the Cape Colony. A reconnoitring force under Colonel Gough came in contact with the enemy near the Orange R iver some four miles from Belmont. A body of Boers had taken up a position on a hill with a gun, and Colonel Gough was anxious to ascertain their strength. Firing went on for some hours. The official dispatch s a y s : “ The enemy commenced by firing at cavalry from a gun to the north-end as the cavalry in open order made a circle