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THE TABLET A W^eekly Newspaper and Review DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS. From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1870. V o l . 1 4 2 . No. 4,357. L o n d o n , N o v em b e r 1 0 , 1 9 2 3 . Prich 0D., by post 7d. Registered at thh Gbnkral P ost Oppicb as a Nbwspapbb. N ews and Notes ... The Great Silence ••• Les Braves Beiges— The H o ly Places An Outline o f Religions Mixed Languages ... R e v i E W S : St. Matthew’s Gospel East Anglians The Mass — The Existence o f God Scriptural Study ••• CONTENTS Page . 573 ... 575 ... 576 ... 576 ... 577 ... 578 ... 579 ... 579 ... 580 ... 580 ... 580 Reviews continued: — Page British Students at Fribourg Page A Faltering- Feminist — 580 U n iv e r s ity ................................... 585 The Catholic Gazette ••• ... 580 Ch e s s .......................................... 586 The Month — 580 Coming Events ....................... . 586 Books Received ............. 581 O b ituary ................................ 586 New Books and Music 581 Correspondence ; The Archbishop o f Liverpool Lisbon ......................... in 583 Rome—(Our Own Correspondent’s Weekly Letter from)... 589 Fhe Helpers o f the H o ly Souls 584 Catholic Education Notes 590 St. Charles Borromeo ... 5S4 L etters to the Editor : School Football ............. ... 584 British Devotion to the Saints Mr. Chesterton and a New o f Brittany ........................ 591 Morality ......................... 585 Catholicism in South America 592 Letters continued:— Page The Papal Sovereignty................592 “ The H oly Latin Tongue ” — 592 “ II Poverillo Calunniato ” ••• 593 One-day Conferences ................593 The Lighting o f Altar Candles 593 Mass at Sea ........................... 593 From The Tablet o f Eighty Years A g o ...................................... 594 W i l l .................................................594 Et Ct e t e r a ...................... . 594 The Catholic Charities’ Bazaar— 596 N ews from th e D ioceses ... 597 S ocial and P ersonal — .. 600 NOTANDA The Great Silence and the infinitely greater Mass. How Catholics will comport themselves at eleven o ’clock in the morning on Armistice Day (p. 575). More about the Holy Places. Cardinal Bourne’s declaration that they are the heritage o f all Catholics and not o f any one Power (p. 576). Belgium ’ s unfailing loyalty to freedom and justice. How her action towards the Rhenish Separatists recalls the moral grandeur o f her sacrifice in 1914 (p. 576). Speaker, the Earl of Balfour, Lord F itzA lan , Lord Carson, Lord Beaverbrook, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Chamberlain, and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. Mr. T. M. Healy, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, and Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland, came over as representatives of that country, and M. Poincard sent his private secretary from Paris. The funeral gathering, in short, was an impressive witness to the affectionate regard in which Mr. Bonar L aw was held by men of every shade o f political opinion— a regard which he won by his own personal qualities o f sincerity and self-sacrificing energy in all that he judged would make for the people’s good. A sincere but misinformed critic of papal infallibility. Dr. Leighton Pullan’ s conclusions on this and other subjects examined in an article by Dr. Richard Downey (P- 577) Tewkesbury. W h a t The Tablet did not say about the celebrations and what it does say about the Church Times (p. 595). A famous studio that became a house of prayer. Where the Helpers of the Holy Souls opened their first London chapel (p. 584). The v is it of the Archbishop of Liverpool to the English College at Lisbon. A link of gratitude recalled between the Catholics of this country and the Church in Portugal (p. 583). NEWS AND NOTES Am a n i f e s t a t i o n of respect from all parties and classes of the people marked the funeral of Mr. Bonar L aw last Monday at Westm inster Abbey. The streets through which the body passed on the way to the Abbey were lined by immense and subdued crowds, and in the building itself there was a distinguished congregation representative not only o f the nation but of the Empire, for it included some of the statesmen from the Dominions who are now in England for the Imperial Conference. The K in g was represented by the Prince of W a le s , who acted as a pall-bearer, others who shared that office being the Prime Minister, the Mr. Baldwin had a great and interested audience at Manchester on Friday of last week, when he laid down in the Free Trade Hall a Government policy in regard to our national and Imperial trade which includes a considerable application of the principle of Protection. The Premier put forth his proposals in the shape of a six-point programme. “ W hat is it that I propose to d o ? ” he asked; and he answered the question a s follow s : “ T o put a tax on manufactured goods, with special regard for those imports that cause the greatest amount of unemployment among our people ; to g iv e a substantial preference to our Dominions ; to put no tax on wheat o r meat ; to have investigated most carefully the best way we can help agriculture and maintain the tillage of the nation ; to examine and co-ordinate and improve existin g schemes of insurance against those evils that affect the life and health of our people, such as old-age, ill-health, and unemployment ; and to develop our own estates— our Empire.” Mr. Baldwin w a s insistent that post-war problems should not be viewed according to pre-war doctrines. The times we lived in, he said, were new and strange and extraordinarily difficult, and the problem o f unemployment called for radical and drastic measures. Although England claims to be the mother of parliamentary institutions as w e know them to-day, our people have never developed the voracious appetite fo r politics and electioneering which we see in some other countries. Since the Corrupt Practices Acts have done away with the more ignoble but certainly excitin g methods of the nineteenth century, most o f us look on a General Election as a necessary evil, like the v is it N ew Series. Vol. CX. N o . 3,756.

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THE TABLET

A W^eekly Newspaper and Review

DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.

From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1870.

V o l . 1 4 2 . No. 4,357. L o n d o n , N o v em b e r 1 0 , 1 9 2 3 .

Prich 0D., by post 7d.

Registered at thh Gbnkral P ost Oppicb as a Nbwspapbb.

N ews and Notes ... The Great Silence ••• Les Braves Beiges— The H o ly Places An Outline o f Religions Mixed Languages ... R e v i E W S :

St. Matthew’s Gospel East Anglians The Mass — The Existence o f God Scriptural Study •••

CONTENTS

Page . 573 ... 575 ... 576 ... 576 ... 577 ... 578

... 579 ... 579 ... 580 ... 580 ... 580

Reviews continued: —

Page

British Students at Fribourg

Page

A Faltering- Feminist — 580 U n iv e r s ity ................................... 585 The Catholic Gazette ••• ... 580 Ch e s s .......................................... 586 The Month — 580 Coming Events ....................... . 586 Books Received ............. 581 O b ituary ................................ 586 New Books and Music 581 Correspondence ; The Archbishop o f Liverpool

Lisbon ......................... in 583 Rome—(Our Own Correspondent’s Weekly Letter from)... 589 Fhe Helpers o f the H o ly Souls 584 Catholic Education Notes 590 St. Charles Borromeo ... 5S4 L etters to the Editor : School Football ............. ... 584 British Devotion to the Saints Mr. Chesterton and a New o f Brittany ........................ 591

Morality ......................... 585 Catholicism in South America 592

Letters continued:—

Page

The Papal Sovereignty................592 “ The H oly Latin Tongue ” — 592 “ II Poverillo Calunniato ” ••• 593 One-day Conferences ................593 The Lighting o f Altar Candles 593 Mass at Sea ........................... 593 From The Tablet o f Eighty

Years A g o ...................................... 594 W i l l .................................................594 Et Ct e t e r a ...................... . 594 The Catholic Charities’ Bazaar— 596 N ews from th e D ioceses ... 597 S ocial and P ersonal — .. 600

NOTANDA The Great Silence and the infinitely greater Mass. How Catholics will comport themselves at eleven o ’clock in the morning on Armistice Day (p. 575).

More about the Holy Places. Cardinal Bourne’s declaration that they are the heritage o f all Catholics and not o f any one Power (p. 576).

Belgium ’ s unfailing loyalty to freedom and justice. How her action towards the Rhenish Separatists recalls the moral grandeur o f her sacrifice in 1914 (p. 576).

Speaker, the Earl of Balfour, Lord F itzA lan , Lord Carson, Lord Beaverbrook, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Chamberlain, and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. Mr. T. M. Healy, Governor-General of the Irish Free State, and Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland, came over as representatives of that country, and M. Poincard sent his private secretary from Paris. The funeral gathering, in short, was an impressive witness to the affectionate regard in which Mr. Bonar L aw was held by men of every shade o f political opinion— a regard which he won by his own personal qualities o f sincerity and self-sacrificing energy in all that he judged would make for the people’s good.

A sincere but misinformed critic of papal infallibility. Dr. Leighton Pullan’ s conclusions on this and other subjects examined in an article by Dr. Richard Downey (P- 577)

Tewkesbury. W h a t The Tablet did not say about the celebrations and what it does say about the Church Times (p. 595).

A famous studio that became a house of prayer. Where the Helpers of the Holy Souls opened their first London chapel (p. 584).

The v is it of the Archbishop of Liverpool to the English College at Lisbon. A link of gratitude recalled between the Catholics of this country and the Church in Portugal (p. 583).

NEWS AND NOTES

Am a n i f e s t a t i o n of respect from all parties and classes of the people marked the funeral of Mr. Bonar L aw last Monday at Westm inster Abbey. The streets through which the body passed on the way to the Abbey were lined by immense and subdued crowds, and in the building itself there was a distinguished congregation representative not only o f the nation but of the Empire, for it included some of the statesmen from the Dominions who are now in England for the Imperial Conference. The K in g was represented by the Prince of W a le s , who acted as a pall-bearer, others who shared that office being the Prime Minister, the

Mr. Baldwin had a great and interested audience at Manchester on Friday of last week, when he laid down in the Free Trade Hall a Government policy in regard to our national and Imperial trade which includes a considerable application of the principle of Protection. The Premier put forth his proposals in the shape of a six-point programme. “ W hat is it that I propose to d o ? ” he asked; and he answered the question a s follow s : “ T o put a tax on manufactured goods, with special regard for those imports that cause the greatest amount of unemployment among our people ; to g iv e a substantial preference to our Dominions ; to put no tax on wheat o r meat ; to have investigated most carefully the best way we can help agriculture and maintain the tillage of the nation ; to examine and co-ordinate and improve existin g schemes of insurance against those evils that affect the life and health of our people, such as old-age, ill-health, and unemployment ; and to develop our own estates— our Empire.” Mr. Baldwin w a s insistent that post-war problems should not be viewed according to pre-war doctrines. The times we lived in, he said, were new and strange and extraordinarily difficult, and the problem o f unemployment called for radical and drastic measures.

Although England claims to be the mother of parliamentary institutions as w e know them to-day, our people have never developed the voracious appetite fo r politics and electioneering which we see in some other countries. Since the Corrupt Practices Acts have done away with the more ignoble but certainly excitin g methods of the nineteenth century, most o f us look on a General Election as a necessary evil, like the v is it

N ew Series. Vol. CX. N o . 3,756.

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