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DUM VOBIS G R A TU LAM U R , AN IM O S ETIAM ADDIM U S U T IN INCCEPTIS V E STR IS CON STAN TER M ANEATIS.
F ro m the B r i e f o f H i s H o lin e ss P iu s I X . to The T ablet, Jun e 4, 18 70,
Vol. 115. No. 3,658. London, June i 3, 1910.
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'C hronicle of th e W e e k : _ _ Page
Imperial Parliament : The Vindication o f Mr. Roosevelt— Sir Edward Grey’s Policy in Egypt — The Mediterranean Command—Elec tioneering Practices — Vote'' for Women— The CensusBill— Valuation Worries—The Civil List and the Regency—The Policy o f the French Government — Woman Franchise-General Botha’s Policy — The Cretan Nuisance . . . . 957 T opics of t h e D a y :
The Doomed Declaration . . 961 The Diamond Jubilee of the
Restored Hierarchy . . . . 962 Architecture and Peace . . . . 963 N o t e s ......................... . . . . 904 R eview s :
The Struggle with Puritanism . . 965 Neighbours and Friends . . . . 966
CONTENTS.
R ev iew s (Continued):
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American Stories . . . . . . 966 Father Tabb’s Poems . . . . 966 Meditations for June .. . . 967 The Ober-Ammergau Passion Play 967 Books of the Week Literary Notes The Royal Declaration The Roman Association The Catholic Esperantist Society . The Catholic Boys’ Brigade C O R R E S P O N D E N C E !
967 967 968 970 971 971
Rome (From Our Own Corre
spondent) ................................... L e t t e r s to th e E d itor :
Cardinal Vaughan and Oscott . The Crusade of Rescue The Marriages of the Poor and the Decree “ Ne Temere” The Co-operation of Assistant
Bishops
973 974 974
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974
L e t t e r s (Continued)
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The Royal Declaration . . . . 975 Tunes for the Hymnbook . . 975 The “ Speculum Vitae . . . 976 Nonconformists and Catholicism 976 The Authorship of the “ Te
Deum ” . . . . . . . . 976 The Reassessment of School
Accommodation .. . . . . 976 The Education Settlement Plan 976 Scripture Translation . . . . 976 Vivisection . . . . . . 977 The Seaman’s Club at Port Said 977 A Catholic Press Agency.. . . 977 The Boy Scouts . . . . . . 977 The Late Mr. Raoul Paston
Bedingfeld . . . . . . . . 977 E t Cætera . . . . - .9 78 The Late Sir William Butler .. 982 The Restored Hierarchy . . . . 984 A Child’s Religion . . . . . . 9S5
O b itu ar y ........................................987 M arriage ........................................... 9S7 Social a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 087 Catholic Congress at Leeds.. . . 987
SU PPLEM EN T . Papal Encyclical : St. Charles
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Borromeo . . . . . . . . 989 Educational Notes .. . . 991 Doings of Local Authorities . . 992 Our Colleges and Schools . . . . 993 Salford Schools . . . . . . 993 The Need for Higher Grants . . 994 N ews from t h e D ioceses :
Westminster....................................... 995 Southwark . . . . . . . . 979 Clifton . . . . .. . . q3o Leeds . . . . . . . . . . 981 Middlesbrough . . . . . .9 8 1 Northampton . . . . . . 982 Aberdeen . . . . . . . . 982
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NOTANDA.
The Doomed Declaration (p. 961) . A cablegram from the Archbishop of Montreal tells of the delight of Catholic Cfanada at Mr. Asquith’s promise (p. 964) . Correspondence between the Catholic Union and the Prime Minister. Letters from the Bishop of Sebastopolis, Father Sydney Smith, Father Bernard Vaughan and Mr. G. K. Chesterton (pp. 968 sqq., 975).
Father Bans’ last appeal (p. 974). If it fall on deaf ears— (p. 964).
t . sixty years of progress which have followed on the restoration of the Hierarchy (p. 962). The Address of Congratulation sent by the Archbishop and clergy of Armagh to Cardinal Wiseman and the Cardinal’s reply (p. 984).
Cardinal Vaughan and Oscott. The significance of a footnote (p. 974).
The late Sir William Butler—-tributes from many hands (p. 982).
Marriages of the Poor and the Decree “ Ne Temere.” Advantages offered by a general adoption of the Marriage Act of 1898 (p. 974).
A new diocese at Regina in Canada. Our Rome correspondent announces that an English-speaking Bishop is to be appointed (p. 973).
An International Catholic Esperantist Congress. A correspondent tells of a delightful experience. How jokes sound in Esperanto (p. 971).
Some further reasons for the increase of the grants for Education from Imperial funds (pp. 991, 994). I
New 5 s r i s s . Vol. LXXXIII, No. 3,057.
CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
MR. ROOSEVELT. T
THE VINDICATION OF
H ERE were many at the time of Mr. Roosevelt’s famous speech at the Guildhall, who, while gladly acknowledg
ing the good intentions of the speaker, were yet inclined to regard his words as an indiscretion. No sane man, or, at any rate, no man with any sense of proportion, would have set off the undoubted friendliness of the speech against its alleged indiscretion ; but now we know that the ex-President’s utterances had not even the blemish of being indiscreet. So far from having been a surprise and a source of embarrassment to the Government, they were listened to with pleasure by Sir Edward Grey, who knew exactly what was coming. Speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, the Foreign Secretary, dealing with the suggestion that Mr. Roosevelt had been less than courteous in speaking as he did about Egypt without previous communication with the Government, explained that such previous communication had in fact taken place. “ I say frankly that he communicated to me his views of his experiences during his travels through British territory in Africa. He communicated to me his views of what he had seen in East Africa, Uganda, the Sudan, and Egypt. I seldom listened to anything with greater pleasure. If I had said that the public statement of his experiences which I knew he wished to make was in any degree likely to be embarrassing to me, I am quite certain that he would have withheld them, but I did not think that they were in the least likely to be embarrassing. I made no suggestion to him whatever that he should not make them public. I heard them repeated at the Guildhall substantially as they were repeated to me, and I listened to that speech with the greatest enjoyment. In the first place, I should have thought that to everybody the friendly intention of that speech would have been obvious. In the next place, I should have thought that everybody would have felt that, taken as a whole, it was the greatest compliment to the work of one country in the world ever paid by the citizen of another country.” After that admirably frank statement by Sir Edward Grey, the warm approval of the Guildhall speech expressed by Mr. Balfour becomes almost unimportant. “ We do not
