THE TABLET A l'A?ek/y Newspaper and Review DUM V O B IS G R A T U L A M U R , AN IM O S E T IAM A D D IM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E S T R IS C O N S T A N T E R M AN EATIS.
From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1870.
Vol. 142 No. 4,345. London, August iH, 1923. p«,™«».. .t «>« 7».
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N ews and Notes -• — ... 197 Calami Calamitosissimi ... — 199 Non-Catholics and the Syllabus 199 The Bicentenary o f Blackstone 201 R eviews
The Christian Character ... 202 English Chuich Fittings •••203 The Mustard Tree ............ 203 Renaissance Architecture in
France ••• •••
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Voluntary Clergy-.................... 204
CONTENTS
Reviews continued:—
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The Catholic Encyclopedia ... 204 The Month.................................. 204 The Catholic G a z e t t e .............. 204 New Books and Music ... ... 205 Books Received ........................ 206 Coming Events — ... 206 The Cambridge Summer School— 207 Ch e s s ............................................ 208 Correspondence :
Rome—(Our Own Correspon
dent's Weekly Letter from) — 211
London Intermediate Examina
Page t i o n ............................................ 212 Letters to the Editor :
A Diocesan B oundary.............. 212 The Converts’ Aid Society ... 212 English Teaching in Palestine 212 Mary Stewart a Saint ? .............. 212 Mary Queen o f Scots ... 213 Catholic Education Notes ... 213 Et C/b tkra.......... 214 Priests’ Holidays ........................ 216
Great Days at Lisieux: The
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Glory o f the Little Flower ... 217 The " Movies ” in Church — ... 218 St. Francis Leper Guild ... ... 218 N ews from the D ioceses ... 220 From The Tablet o f Eighty
Years A g o ...................... ... 220 Obituary ........................... .. 220 W ill ....................................... - 220 S ocial and Personal .. 220
N O L A N D A
Celebrations at Lisieux fo r the Beatification of the L ittle Flower. F ifty thousand pilgrims a t the Triduum. The rejoicings described (p. 217).
The first thousand pounds towards a Catholic Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at an English University. A practical outcome of the Cardinal’s inaugural address at the Birmingham Congress (p. 198).
Does the Syllabus o f Pope P iu s IX condemn modern civilization and progress? The question answered by plain facts and plain history. An interpolation in an alleged quotation from the Syllabus sends the Dean of St. P au l ’s astray (p. 199).
The Catholic Summer School at C am b r id g e : a survey of its activities and a summary of the principal papers. Looking ahead to next y e a r ’s school : su g gested subjects for discussion (p. 207).
A writer “ learned in the l a w . ' ’ The bicentenary of Sir W illiam Biackstone affords Father Kent opportunity fo r a commentary on the Commentaries. Some instances of eighteenth-century punishments in England (p. 201).
More letters and essays on holiday travel. A demobilized chaplain who went back to France and what he found there. French coffee as one o f the ruins of the w a r (p. 216).
NEWS AND NOTES A
W h i t e Paper issued fo r publication at the beginning of the week g iv e s the text of the important recent correspondence between the British Government and the Allied Governments with regard to reparation payments by Germany. The documents begin with a translation o f the German Note of June 7, containing proposals and a sk in g that a conference may be summoned to agree as to how she may best discharge her obligation, which the Note acknowledges, to make reparation. Then follow letters between Lord Curzon and the French and Belgian Ambassadors, and the draft identic reply to be addressed to the German Government. The British Note, submitting the draft was dated July 20, and replies to it are printed from France, Belgium, Italy, and Japan. W e come finally to the British Note of
August 11, and the Memorandum on Inter-Allied Debts referred to in the Note itself. A supplement to the Times of Monday last g iv es the full text o f the correspondence, except for two of the documents that had already appeared in that paper. W e deal in another column with the present aspect of the international situation to which the correspondence relates.
In Germany itself the past week has produced a political crisis by the resignation of the Cuno Cabinet. On Saturday the Socialist Party passed a resolution of “ no confidence ” in the Government, and fo llow ing this Herr Cuno and his colleagues tendered their resignation to President Ebert, who accepted it on Sunday evening. Public opinion favoured a Coalition Government under Herr Stresemann, who duly accepted the Chancellorship and set about form ing the new Cabinet. From Berlin and other parts of Germany there is news of increasing social disorder, fomented by Communists and taking shape in strikes and riots. At Aix-Ia-Chapelle a conflict between police and Communists led to sixty casualties in killed and wounded. In the poorer parts of the capital there have been food riots. On Monday night a semi-official announcement w a s made to the effect that all deliveries in kind to Great Britain, Italy, and other Allied countries would forthwith be suspended. This new default is explained on the plea that Germany’s present condition is such that all her resources are needed to ward off starvation from the people and ensure them a minimum of existence.
Electioneering is in full sw in g in Ireland, where the first real General Election under the T reaty will shortly take place— fo r the “ t i c k e t ’ ’ governing last year’ s elections prevented the registering of any definite proof of the popular will. Apart from organized Labour and the Republican element there are, a s Mr. Stephen Gwynn points out in the Observer, no parties before the Irish constituencies, if we except the political organization of the farmers. President Cosgrave and his colleagues in the Ministry opened their election campaign at a great meeting in College Green, Dublin, last Sunday, attended by a crowd estimated a t twenty thousand. Popular interest is likely to centre, however, at Clare, where Mr. de Valera is being opposed, for the F ree State, by Professor Eoin MacNeill, who has made his headquarters a t Ennis. Here there is every prospect o f a keen fight, and an uncertain issue
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