THE TABLET.

A Weekly News pap er and Review.

DUM VOBIS GRATULAM UR , ANIMOS ETI AM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

F r om th e B r i e f o j H i s H o lm e s s F i u s I X . to T h e T a b l e t , J u n e 4 , 1870.

V ol. 89. No. 2978.

L ondon, J u n e 5 , 1897. P r ice sd ., by P o st

[R e g is tered a t th e G e n e r a l P ost O f f ic e a s a N ew spaper.

‘ C hronicle of t h e W e e k • Page

Imperial Parliament : A Scene— The Question of Copyright— The Extension o f Compensation for Accidents—The Firm Attitude of the Government — The London County Council—Chess : England v. America—Mr. Healy on Irish ■ Prospects — The South African Committee — Mr. Labouchere’s Position— Lord Russell and the British Empire— A Grave Indict-

of Our Army System Cabinet Crisis in Spain ■ 877 ’L eaders :

The Russian Church and Catholic

Theology . . . . .. . . 881 An American View of the Raid . . 882 The Bull “ Apostolicse Cura;” . . 883 N otes ... . . — -. ..8 8 5 rREv:Fws :

In Court and Kampong .. . . 887

CONTENTS.

Reviews (Continued) :

A Long Probation .. The Secret Directory Creation Centred in Christ A Minion of the Moon Abbé Constantin

Page .. 888 .. 888 . . 889 . . 889

The Most Popular Pastor in New

England .....................................889 Annual Conference of Catholic

Colleges . . . . . . .. 889 University Intelligence . . .. 89c C orrespondence :

Rome :—(From Our Own Corre­

spondent) . . . . —

News from Ireland _

_ 893

* 896

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

The Comma Johanneum . . . . 896 The Anglican Doctrine o f the

Eucharist .. ......................... 897

L e t t e r s to t h e E d it or (Con­

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tinued : The Ceremonies of Holy Week .. 897 The Origin of Man.. . . . . 897 A Test Question tor Anglicans . . 898 Transubstantiation.. _ . . .. 898 A Reason for Allegiance to the

Church of England . . . . 898 “ St. Joseph’s Anthology ” . . 8q8 St. Philip the Apostle . . . . 898 The Newly Canonized Saints . . 900 The St. Augustine Centenary . . 900 Catholic Evidence Lectures : The

Protestant Rule o f Faith.. . . 901 Books of the Week . . O b it u a r y M arr ia g e So c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l

. . 902 . . 903 . . 904 . . 904

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SU PPLEM EN T . Encyclical Letter for Pentecost 1897 909

N ew s from t h e S chools:

The Leeds School Board and the

Licensing o f Catholic Children 912 Education o f the Blind and Deaf 913 Cambridge ar d Degrees for Women 913 Singing in Elementary Schools . . 913 Examinations an Inadequate Test 913 Disappointment’s Explanations . . 913 School Accommodation . . _ . . 914 Glasgow : Annual Inspection of

Training College, Dowanhill . . 914

N ews from t h e D io ceses Westminster

Southwark Clifton Plymouth The Vicariate

- 914 . . 901 . . got . . 902 . . 902

Reieeted MS. cannot be returned unless accompanied with address

and postage.

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

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IM P E R IA L PARLIAM ENT

A SCENE.

GOOD deal of excitement

Awas aroused by Mr. Redmond and some of his colleagues out of a very hum-drum

subject in the House of Commons. The House had gone into Committee of Supply, and the Parnellites made an attempt to force a discussion on the Financial Relations question, when the subject for consideration was nothing mere pertinent than a harmless necessary vote of some twenty-four thousand pounds for certain harbours and lighthouses in the United Kingdom. The opposition to this grant was led by Mr. Clancy, who objected to it on the ground that Ireland bore an undue share of the Imperial taxation from j which the cost of such services was defrayed. Mr. Lowther, the Chairman, pointed out the irrelevancy of such observations, which, as they bore upon taxation, should have been raised in Committee of Ways and Means. Thereupon Mr. Redmond rose to take up the cudgels for his colleague, and refused to obey the ruling of the Chair. Mr. Redmond was suspended, and the Speaker was sent for to put the motion to the House, with the result that the recalcitrant had to withdraw from the precincts. But the incident was not yet closed. Mr. Clancy again rose and reiterated his former objections with added warmth, refusing to withdraw until approached by the Sergeant-at-Arms, amid Nationalist cries of “ Coercion ! ” mingled with laughter, provoked by Mr. W. Redmond’s suggestion that the Chairman should send for the Horse Guards. The next candidate for expulsion was Mr. W. Redmond, who, after pointing out that he was not in the house to hear

the Chairman’s ruling, went on to state his objections to the vote before the Committee. The Chairman repeated his ruling, but that made no difference to the course of the honourable member’s remarks. He, too, had to follow the Sergeant-at-Arms. Still another colleague, Mr. Field, obstinately persisted in trenching upon the forbidden field of discussion, but he gave way before the terrors of the representative of armed force were called into requisition. The vote was then agreed to without further trouble, the attempt to revive an old Parnellite tactic having ended in ignominious failure. ______

New Series. Vo i . LVII., No. 2.287.

— THE QUESTION OF COPYRIGHT.

The Second Reading of a Copyright Amendment Bill was moved in the House of Lords on Monday afternoon by Lord Monkswell. The chief argument in favour

of such a consolidation and amendment of the existing law of copyright was the fact that, twenty years ago, a Royal Commission had reported against the form and substance ot that law as a disgrace to the Statute Book. The law was not only obscure but indecisive, and he felt that authors had just cause for their complaints against the way in which they had been treated by Parliament. A Bill of a comprehensive character had been introduced six years ago, but after passing the Second Reading had been allowed to lapse without anything mere being done in the matter. In the measure which he was now bringing to the attention of the House, the utmost consideration had been paid to diverse interests. Colonies might remain outside the action of the Bill. Besides that it was not put forward by one party to the detriment of another. Its provisions had not only been considered by the Society of Authors, but they had been submitted to the judgment of the Publishers’ Association and of the Copyright Association as well. The Bill proposed to deal with the difficult problems of copyright seriatim. The first portion dealt with magazine copyright. Though the matter was involved in obscurity, it seemed to be generally believed that the author’s right of publication of separate publication of a magazine article was deferred for twenty-eight years: this term the Bill proposed to reduce to three years, the alteration being made retrospective. As to lectures, the Bill proposed that a man should have copyright in his lectures without going through the formality, as provided by the Lectures Copyright Act of 1835, of giving notice to two Justices of the Peace. The Bill also proposed to include certain lectures and sermons which had no copyright in them before. With reference to abridgments, the Bill followed the Report of the Royal Commission, and provided that copyright should carry with it the right to abridge. Then came the cognate question of the dramatization of novels. The plots of novels might be reproduced in dramatic form without any legal infringement of copyright, and a similar injury could be inflicted upon authors by the extension of a drama into a novel. These were moral infringements of copyright which the Bill proposed to make illegal. Finally, the Bill would throw on the British Museum, as being the most appropriate body, the duty of certifying the date when a book was published,

the copyright running from the date of publication. The