THE TABLET.
4 W eek ly N ew spaper and R eview .
DOM VCB'. J GRATULAMOS, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS ÜT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEAT.S.
From the Brief of H is Holiness P ius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, lisfo.
VOL, 94. No. 3109. London, December 9, 1S99. . Price 5J„BYPoST5**d.
[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e Gen e r a l P o st O f f i c e a s a N ew s pa p e r .
Chronmcle of th e W e e k : Page
The Lancers at Eland.-laagte—
Fight on the Modder River r~The Fighting at Kimberley and Mafeking— Mr. Chamberlain and ■ our Foreign Relations-Lord RosebeJT ar>d the Attacks on the Queen 77 The Peel Heirlooms— Death of ölr **enry Tate—A Cheaper Telegraphic Tariff Between England ■ and France— Future Land Legis•«ion—Mr. McKinley’s Message T v Judge on Intemperance and
^ Temperance Manifesto ^■ A Journalistic Prince on French foreign P o lic y -T h e Troubles in r ßritish North Borneo . . . . 017 B aders :
Dr: Creighton's Ideal of a Chris
tian Church ......................... 921
CONTENTS.
L eadrrs (Continued) :
Professor Maitland upon Canon
Mac Coll The^ New Triple Alliance Christian Mysticism . The Situation in France . N o tes . . . . — . R eview s :
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Mr. Kegan Paul's Reminiscences 928 The Romance of the Lady Arbell 929 Embroidery.. . . .. . . 930 The Theology of Modern Literature 930 The Supernatural in Nature . . 930 Glen Insch . . . . . . . . 930 The Ritual Controversy . . . . 9 3 1 C orrespondence :
Rome :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . ... .» 933 News from Ireland . . 935 News from France............................ 936
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L e t t e r s to t h e E d itor :
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The Holy See and the Jews . . 937 The Sisters of Charity, 9, Lower
Seymour-street, S.W ...................... 937 East-End Schools . . ' 037 Henry V I I I . ’s Last Catholic Or„ gainst ........................................ 937 Et Caetera .. .. # <^3 Reviews and Magazines .7 7 939 Cardinal Vaughan at Eastbourne.. 940 1 he War in South Africa . . .. 941 Catholics and the Coming Century Q41 Historical Research Society . . 942 Franciscan Tertiaries and the ,« i i ew ^Vestminster Cathedral . . 942
The Tablet ” and Ritual Murders .. . . . . Books of the Week .. 7’ * olx F rom E verywhere . . 7 944
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SU PPLEM ENT N ews from t h e S chools :
The London School Board
Underfed Children Rate-A id . . . Beaumont College . N ews from t h e D io ceses
Westminster . . Southwark . . . . Clifton . . . . Hexham and Newcastle Liverpool . . . . Northampton .. Nottingham.. . . Plymouth . . . . Salford . ,, Shrewsbury . . . . Menevia . . 7
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK
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N O T A N B A .
M. Urbain Gohier, who just dow finds the English *jjagazines a profitable market for bis literary wares, and is bkely to do so as long as they consist of attacks upon the ^atholic clergy in France, is taken to task by Mr. Henry Uibbs, who asks a few simple but straight questions. We shall be pleased to print M. Gohier’s reply— when it c°mes (p. 939).
The London School Board, after a prolonged debate, has rehised to countenance the attempt which has been made to ?addls the ratepayers with the cost o f feeding the children lri. its schools. The concluding portion o f the debate is | lveD, together with the opinions on the question of The spectator and The Manchester Guardian (p. 949),
A remark let fall in a speech by the Bishop of London 0 'he effect that he was an Englishman first and a Cburch’han afterwards is shown to be illustrative of the wrong cond it io n of the Catholic Church prevalent amoDgst Anglicans,
it is pointed out that loyalty to Christ’s Kingdom, the '-atholicChurch,is primary,paramount,and absolute (p. 921).
. The two priest Deputies in the French Chamber have ° “en prominent in the tribune during the Budget debates. ,h e Abbé Gayraud’s speech on the debt due from France ü her foreign missionaries smoothed the way for the Passing of the credit for Foreign Affairs, whilst the Abbé J^tiiire’s defence o f the orphanages in France under ,eh'gious congregations evoked from the Premier some .'^Portant information concerning the Bon-Pasteur estab-
lshmeni at Nancy (p. 937).
j A fun account of the requiem at San Silveslro, in Rome, f°[ 'he repose of the souls of the British soldiers who have ^allen fighting in South Africa, Orrespondence columns (p. 934).
given in our Roman
Attention is drawn to Mr. Inge’s Bampton Lectures on VrhuSt‘ an Mysticism, and his treatment of it is contrasted rec tlle manner in which the subject has been handled ently by several Catholic writers (p. 924).
N ew S e r i e s . V o l . LX I I . , No. 2.418.
AT ELANDSLAAG 1E. A
THE LANCERS
N extraordinary impression seems to have been made upon the Boers by the charge of the Lancers at
. Elandslaagte. The correspondent of The Westminster Gazette sa y s : " T h e Boers were so amazed at the wounds on those who fell in that charge that instead o f burying the bodies they took some of them to Newcastle as proofs that their enemies were ‘ not playing the game.’ A cavalry charge is quite a novel experience for the Boer, and it is small wonder that he has already a terror of the Lancer.” Trooper Thomas Dolan, writing to his mother, while he confirms the impression that the charge struck terror into the Boers, adds that no quarter was given. “ As soon as the enemy saw the lance they threw up them rifles and ammunition in the air and cried ‘ Fr.ends,’ but it was no go, for they fired on the Red Cross, and we had no mercy for them.” A Dutch prisoner, on the other hand, while complaining of the use of the lance as barbarous, had no other complaint: “ Men on horses carrying sticks with spikes on top came galloping to us as we were running to our horses. They picked us uo on the spikes like bundles o f h a y ; they came through us once, then again, altogether five times. And yet you English call yourselves civilized people.” We suspect that the stories told by some of the Tommies to their friends at home must be taken with a pinch of salt, else this letter from Private Wooliscroft, c f the 2nd Battalion K in g ’s Royal Rifles, would go far to substantiate the charge that our troops in the heat of action refused to accept surrender: “ When we charged the Boers with our bayonets those who did not get away went on their knees for mercy, and I can tell you they got it with a long hook. I had a narrowescape from being captured by three of them, but I laid down and shot the three within fifty yards o f me. I thought it was all up, but I believe what my fortune told me, ‘ that I should never die with my boots on.’ ” In a litter printed in The Brighton Argus a trooper of the 5th Lancers says : “ We got a charge at them, and they threw up their arms and fell on their knees for mercy; but we were told not to give them any, and I can assure you they got none. We went along sticking our lances through th em ; it was a terrible th in g ; but you have to do it in a case like this.” Unfortunately such abuses of the use of the white flag as were reported at the battle of Dundee, and which certainly
