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C h ro n ic l e o f t h e W e e k ! Page lift The Progress o f the War : A
Disaster — How “ the^ Imperial Light H o rse” was Raised—The Official Explanation—A Critical Situation—Lord Rosebery’s Call for a United People—A French Disaster in the Soudan—A FisherLad ’s Heroism—Parliament Prorogued—The German N avy—An 'Effort at Balancing — American Help for the English Wounded— Help from Canada—Help for Soldiers’ Families—Sir John Gorst and State Aid for Modern Lan . guages .......................................... 717 Leaders:
The German Navy and the Centre c P a rty ..........................................721
Aspects o f the “ Spiritual E xe rc ises” . . . . 722 Letters o f Giovanni M irhiel . . 723 A Flourishing Catholic Univer-
sd y ..........................................724 A&e Situation in France . . . . 725
C O N 7 E N T S
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N o t e s » . . . „ 726 R e v i e w s :
I s War Now Impossible ? . . 728 The Journal o f Theological Studies 728 Home Truths for M ary ’s Children 729 The Demon of the Wind . . . . 729 The Sorrows of the K in g . . . . 730 The College B o y ..............................730 Weeds and Flowers . . . . 730 Better Late than Never . . . . 730 The Sifting of the Wheat . . 730 Dominican Nuns in Bulawayo . . 730 A Mission in Bombay . . . . 731 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :
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spondent) •« ~ — — 733 News from Ireland •» —734 News from France...........................735 L e t t e r s to t h e E d i t o r :
Chiswick V icarage . . . . 736 The Genesis o f Anglicanism . . 7 36 The Church o f St. Joachim , Rome 736 For the Widows and Orphans o f
Our Soldiers ............................. 736
Et Caetera _................................... 737 The Irish Regiments . . . . 738 The Intellectual Future o f Catho
Page licism ..................................................... 738 The Late Bishop Butt . . . . 740 Father Gasquet’s New Book . . 741 The Peril o f the Roman Church . . 742 The “ U n i t y ” o f the Anglican
Churchy ........................... The Indian School Question in
America . . : . . _ . . Father Kenelm Vaughan’s Mission
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to South America . . . . . . 743 Catholic Prisoners’ A id Society . . 743 The Late M i. Purcell and “ A Life o f Cardinal Newman ” . . . . 744 Franciscan Tertiaries and the N ew Westminster Cathedral . . . . 744 The Orleans Wedding . . . . 744 Neufeldt’s Account o f the Death o f
Gordon .......................................... 744 Books o f the W e e k ............................. 745 O b i t u a r y . . — . . . . 745 F rom E v e r y w h e r e . . . . 7 4 6
S o c ia l a n d P o l i t ic a l . . — 746
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The Irish University . . . . 745 Lord Rosebery at Prior P ark Col
le g e . . .......................... . . 749 Defective and Epileptic Children 749 Is an Educational Concordat Pos
sible ? .• . . . , . . 750 School Boards and Higher Grade
Schools . . _ . . . . 750 Football ................................... .... N ew s fr o m t h e D io c e s e s :
Westminster . . . . «751 S o u t h w a r k ..........................................7 51 Birmingham 752 Clifton . . ». . . 752 L e e d s . . ** ...........................752 Middlesbrough ...........................752 P l y m o u t h ......................................... 752 Menevia . . .._ . . . . 752 St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . 753 Glasgow ..................................... 753 The Ritual Controversy . . ... 754
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little foundation, and its claim to serious attention to be based rather on the mass o f details its arrays than upon the conclusions it draws from them (p. 728).
N O T A N B A .
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
Among the paragraphs appearing under the heading of ** Et Csetera ” will be found, as before, memoranda concerning the Catholic soldiers on service in South Africa, as Well as a record o f certain impressions made on the congfegations at the Kensington Pro-Cathedral on Sunday, when Bishop Brindle sang the Requiem Mass for the fallen *0 the War (p. 737).
We publish some further extracts from the State Archives at Venice, touching the relations of Philip and Mary, and the latter’s despairing anxiety for a child. The unrest and Suspicion of the public mind is illustrated by an account of the popular belief, when the Queen showed herself at the window, that she was already dead, and that it was “ her tf5gy at the casement and not her real face ” (p. 723).
We would invite attention to the extracts which we give •tom the striking article by Mr. W. H. Mallock in The N in e i tenth C entury on the intellectual future of Catholicism. One point which he urges against the position of Protestantism, namely, the failure of the Reformation principle ° f the Bible as a complete witness and guarantee of buth, is, by a curious coincidence, illustrated by the resignation of his ministry by the Rev. Dr. De Costa, of New Votk (PP- 738-754).
We introduce to our readers, and give some account of tke first number o f The J o u r n a l o f Theological S tu d ie s , a quarterly which, published by Macmillans, is edited by a 90t*>mittee of the Divinity Professors of Oxford and Cambridge. The managers of the new venture will welcome c°ntributions from Catholic scholars (p. 728).
It is our mournful duty this week to have to record the eath of Bishop Butt, who in the early days o f his priest°pd served so devotedly as an Army Chaplain in the ritnea campaign. His work as Bishop is written large l0Vey h e diocese, and his body is to rest in the spot he (pV 7 best— the seminary which he founded at Wonersh sonf ® ' oc.b’3 work I s W a r Im possible ? is considered in e detail. Its leading assumption is shown to have
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THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR : A
DISASTER. w
H E N General Yule had made his retreat from Glencoe to Ladysmith without the loss of a man or a gun the nation began to breathe freely, feeling that the concentration o f the two armies was a guarantee that the progress of the Boers would now be checked until such time as the reinforcements from England should euable a general advance to be made. A ll Sir George White had to do was to hold Ladysmith for a fortnight, aad then all would be well. On Monday came the surprising news that the whole British force had been led out for a general engagement, and that though the two forces never got to close quarters the Boers, after a prolonged artillery duel, had been pressed back for several miles. There was one ominous passage in the report sent by the Commander-in-Chief which in view o f the capture o f a squadron o f the Hussars, after the battle of Dundee, could not fail to give rise to some anxiety: “ I sent No. xo Mountain Battery with Royal Irish Fusiliers and Gloucester Regiment to take up a position on the hills to clear my left flank. The force moved at x i p.m. last night, and during some night firing the battery mules stampeded with some of the guns, which, however, I hope to recover. The two battalions have not yet returned, but are expected this evening.” This report was sent off at three o’clock on Monday afternoon, and men with uneasy wonder began to ask why had those battalions not returned. At noon on Tuesday the worst fears were confirmed, and it was known that both regiments had pressed forward too far, bad been surrounded, and, after suffering great loss, had been forced to surrender. The official report tells of the disaster laconically enough: “ The Royal Irish Fusiliers, No. 10 Mountain Battery, and the Gloucester Regiment were surrounded in hills, and after losing heavily, had to capitulate. A burying party was sent, and the General takes all the blame to himself, saying the position occupied by the lost battalious was “ untenable.” It is clear that while the main body o f the British force was congratulating itself on having compelled the Boers to retreat, this movement was merely strategic, and part of a plan to isolate and overwhelm
