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THE TABLET A PA»ekly Newspaper and Review DUM VO B IS GRATULAM U R , ANIMOS ETI AM ADDIM U S U T IN INCGEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER M ANEAT1S. From the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX to the Tablet, June 4, 1870. V o l . 142 No. 4 , 3 5 9 . L ondon, N ovember 24, 1 9 2 3 . Price 6d., by post 7d. Registered at thb Genbral Post Oppicb as a Newspapbr. Page N ews a n d No t e s ..............................637 " The Catholic Powers” ................639 The Jester o f the Lord ................ 640 The Shepherd Prophet o f Tekoa 641 The Dictionary o f Christian Archaeology and Liturgy ••• 642 Prayers for Election Time ••• 642 R e v i e w s : God Known by R eason................643 Daniele.Manin — 643 A Welsh Ecclesiastical Record 643 Miracle et Mystique ................ 644 The Epistle to the Colossians ••• 644 CONTENTS Reviews continued; — Page A Friar-Preacher...........................644 The E n g l i sh H i s t o r i c a l R e v ie w 644 Books Received ... 645 New Books and Music ••• ••• 645 Cardinal Bourne at Cambridge— 646 A Famous Essex Convent ••• 650 School Football — 650 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e ; Rome—(Our Own Correspon­ dent’s Weekly Letter from)... 653 The Spanish Royal Visit to the P o p e ................................................. 655 Page The General Election ................655 Obituary ........................................ 655 Westminster Catholic Evidence Guild.................................................656 Comiug Events ............. .. 657 St. Edmund's Day Festivities at Old Hall ..................................... 658 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r : An Announcement o f Marriage 659 Dr. Winnington Ingram’s Claim ..................................... 659 Catholicism in South America 659 The Rev. Richard Healy ... 660 Letters continued:— Page Mass at Sea ...........................660 Dr. Stopes’s New P l a y ................660 E t C a s t e r a ................................................ 660 From The T ab le t o f Eighty Years A g o ............. ... —. 661 N ews f r o m the D io c e s e s . . . 662 St. _Philip’s Grammar School, Birmingham ...........................663 Ch e s s ...................................................... 664 The Massacre o f St. Bartho­ lomew ...................................... 664 S o c i a l a n d P ersonal ..................664 NOTANDA The King- and Queen of Spain in Rome. K ing Alfonso's dutiful but not merely formal words to the Holy Father. A Madrid correspondent’s allusion to “ the Catholic P ow e rs” examined and discussed ( p p . 639, 655). Cardinal Bourne’s speech at Cambridge in reply to a tribute at the University Catholic Association dinner; an address also to the Catholic Undergraduates; and a reminder of the test and holiness of the contemplative life (p. 646). Mr. Chesterton’s study o f St. Francis examined by Father Cuthbert, Provincial of the Franciscan Capuchins. The Poor Man of Assisi as the Jester of the Lord and the patron saint of stowaways. Some characteristic passages (p. 640). A first list of Catholic Parliamentary candidates at the General Election (p. 655). An historic Essex convent : the story o f New Hall, Chelmsford. How the nuns of the Holy Sepulchre have laboured hard by the Colchester Road for a hundred and twenty-five years (p. 650). The Anglican Rector of Copdock’s very polite criticism o f The Tablet very politely answered (p. 659). W hat a Catholic “ ostrich ” remembered and felt during a performance of Dr. Stopes’ stage-play ( p . 660). NEWS AND NOTES T h e K in g and Queen o f Spain arrived in Rome from Spezia at noon on Monday, and had an enthusiastic welcome from the populace. At two o ’clock they drove to the Vatican, where they w e ie received by Pius XI first in public and afterwards in private audience. K in g Alfonso was in the uniform of a Spanish general, and the Queen was dressed in white, with a white lace mantilla. At the public audience, in the Hall of the Consistory, the Holy Father was supported by all the members of the Sacred College then in Rome. The I K in g offered to His Holiness the homage of the | Spanish nation and begged the Apostolic Blessing. The private audience, at which the Royal visitors were presented with tw o fine mosaics, lasted about twenty minutes. A t its conclusion the K ing and Queen visited the Cardinal Secretary of State, and on their departure by the Sala Regia further enthusiasm awaited them at the hands, and voices, o f Spanish and other ecclesiastics in the Eternal City. W e deal in another column with the wider considerations opened out by their visit. Parliament was dissolved by Royal Proclamation on Friday of last week, and campaigning for the new elections is now in full swing. The K in g ’s Speech on the Prorogation opened with a reference to the efforts being made for the appointment, with America’s collaboration, o f a Commission o f Inquiry to determine Germany’s capacity to pay Reparations. “ Unfortunately,” the speech continues, “ it has not been possible to secure the assent of the French Government to these proposals, which it had been hoped would lead to a solution of the Reparation problem. My Government regard with profound anxiety the continuance of the present economic conditions in Europe, which depend so largely on the settlement of this question.” Mention is made also of the serious internal situation in Germany. His Majesty notes the conclusion of peace with Turkey, with an earnest hope that this may bring real peace to the Near East. There is a note of heartfelt sympathy with Japan in the disaster that has lately befallen her, and a reference to the value and importance of the recent Imperial Conferences in London. The speech ends with words of anxiety as to the position of agriculture and the problem o f unemployment, as to which no permanent improvement can be expected, it is said, unless measures are adopted for the safeguarding and development of the home market. All three political parties— Conservative, Liberal, and Labour— have lost no time in setting forth the broad lines o f their appeal to the electorate. Mr. Baldwin made his first speech since the Dissolution at the great meeting in the Queen’s Hall on Monday afternoon, when he launched the Unionist campaign to the slogan of “ Keep the home fires Fum ing.” He had deliberately raised the fiscal question, he said, and the issue before them was unemployment and nothing New Series. V ol. CX. No. 3,758.

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THE TABLET A PA»ekly Newspaper and Review

DUM VO B IS GRATULAM U R , ANIMOS ETI AM ADDIM U S U T IN INCGEPTIS V E STR IS CONSTANTER M ANEAT1S.

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

V o l . 142 No. 4 , 3 5 9 . L ondon, N ovember 24, 1 9 2 3 .

Price 6d., by post 7d.

Registered at thb Genbral Post Oppicb as a Newspapbr.

Page

N ews a n d No t e s ..............................637 " The Catholic Powers” ................639 The Jester o f the Lord ................ 640 The Shepherd Prophet o f Tekoa 641 The Dictionary o f Christian

Archaeology and Liturgy ••• 642 Prayers for Election Time ••• 642 R e v i e w s :

God Known by R eason................643 Daniele.Manin — 643 A Welsh Ecclesiastical Record 643 Miracle et Mystique ................ 644 The Epistle to the Colossians ••• 644

CONTENTS

Reviews continued; —

Page

A Friar-Preacher...........................644 The E n g l i sh H i s t o r i c a l R e v ie w 644 Books Received ... 645 New Books and Music ••• ••• 645 Cardinal Bourne at Cambridge— 646 A Famous Essex Convent ••• 650 School Football — 650 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e ;

Rome—(Our Own Correspon­

dent’s Weekly Letter from)... 653 The Spanish Royal Visit to the

P o p e ................................................. 655

Page

The General Election ................655 Obituary ........................................ 655 Westminster Catholic Evidence

Guild.................................................656 Comiug Events ............. .. 657 St. Edmund's Day Festivities at

Old Hall ..................................... 658 L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r :

An Announcement o f Marriage 659 Dr. Winnington Ingram’s

Claim ..................................... 659 Catholicism in South America 659 The Rev. Richard Healy ... 660

Letters continued:—

Page

Mass at Sea ...........................660 Dr. Stopes’s New P l a y ................660 E t C a s t e r a ................................................ 660 From The T ab le t o f Eighty Years A g o ............. ... —. 661 N ews f r o m the D io c e s e s . . . 662 St. _Philip’s Grammar School,

Birmingham ...........................663 Ch e s s ...................................................... 664 The Massacre o f St. Bartho­

lomew ...................................... 664 S o c i a l a n d P ersonal ..................664

NOTANDA The King- and Queen of Spain in Rome. K ing Alfonso's dutiful but not merely formal words to the Holy Father. A Madrid correspondent’s allusion to “ the Catholic P ow e rs” examined and discussed ( p p . 639, 655).

Cardinal Bourne’s speech at Cambridge in reply to a tribute at the University Catholic Association dinner; an address also to the Catholic Undergraduates; and a reminder of the test and holiness of the contemplative life (p. 646).

Mr. Chesterton’s study o f St. Francis examined by Father Cuthbert, Provincial of the Franciscan Capuchins. The Poor Man of Assisi as the Jester of the Lord and the patron saint of stowaways. Some characteristic passages (p. 640).

A first list of Catholic Parliamentary candidates at the General Election (p. 655).

An historic Essex convent : the story o f New Hall, Chelmsford. How the nuns of the Holy Sepulchre have laboured hard by the Colchester Road for a hundred and twenty-five years (p. 650).

The Anglican Rector of Copdock’s very polite criticism o f The Tablet very politely answered (p. 659).

W hat a Catholic “ ostrich ” remembered and felt during a performance of Dr. Stopes’ stage-play ( p . 660).

NEWS AND NOTES T

h e K in g and Queen o f Spain arrived in Rome from Spezia at noon on Monday, and had an enthusiastic welcome from the populace. At two o ’clock they drove to the Vatican, where they w e ie received by Pius XI first in public and afterwards in private audience. K in g Alfonso was in the uniform of a Spanish general, and the Queen was dressed in white, with a white lace mantilla. At the public audience, in the Hall of the Consistory, the Holy Father was supported by all the members of the Sacred College then in Rome. The I K in g offered to His Holiness the homage of the |

Spanish nation and begged the Apostolic Blessing. The private audience, at which the Royal visitors were presented with tw o fine mosaics, lasted about twenty minutes. A t its conclusion the K ing and Queen visited the Cardinal Secretary of State, and on their departure by the Sala Regia further enthusiasm awaited them at the hands, and voices, o f Spanish and other ecclesiastics in the Eternal City. W e deal in another column with the wider considerations opened out by their visit.

Parliament was dissolved by Royal Proclamation on Friday of last week, and campaigning for the new elections is now in full swing. The K in g ’s Speech on the Prorogation opened with a reference to the efforts being made for the appointment, with America’s collaboration, o f a Commission o f Inquiry to determine Germany’s capacity to pay Reparations. “ Unfortunately,” the speech continues, “ it has not been possible to secure the assent of the French Government to these proposals, which it had been hoped would lead to a solution of the Reparation problem. My Government regard with profound anxiety the continuance of the present economic conditions in Europe, which depend so largely on the settlement of this question.” Mention is made also of the serious internal situation in Germany. His Majesty notes the conclusion of peace with Turkey, with an earnest hope that this may bring real peace to the Near East. There is a note of heartfelt sympathy with Japan in the disaster that has lately befallen her, and a reference to the value and importance of the recent Imperial Conferences in London. The speech ends with words of anxiety as to the position of agriculture and the problem o f unemployment, as to which no permanent improvement can be expected, it is said, unless measures are adopted for the safeguarding and development of the home market.

All three political parties— Conservative, Liberal, and Labour— have lost no time in setting forth the broad lines o f their appeal to the electorate. Mr. Baldwin made his first speech since the Dissolution at the great meeting in the Queen’s Hall on Monday afternoon, when he launched the Unionist campaign to the slogan of “ Keep the home fires Fum ing.” He had deliberately raised the fiscal question, he said, and the issue before them was unemployment and nothing

New Series. V ol. CX. No. 3,758.

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