Cross Bulletin March 1918

--- Page 1 --- other nations were directed to extension of territory Faith has been carefully guarded by the people of Tre- land , and when sacrifice was needed they failed not to the priceless gift of Faith can never die . It has been St. Patrick-is kept each in the blood of the martyrs . Whilst the thoughts of established the church in this country , he was called pay the price , and the seed of the Faith was nurtured to his reward exceeding great . The sacred deposit of year with fervour , devotion and festival of our National Apostle . elapsed since . having fulfilled his Divine Mission , and perpetuated during the many centuries that have memory of the saint to whom Ireland is indebted for Apostle and the Gael has found a home , the His Work . Nor only in Ireland but wherever the scattered race of The National becoming solemnity . Tl Miscellaneous . business Letters to be addressed to the Manager . Nt. Areas . Literary Communications to the Editor , at the same address . Annual Setermination to THE CROSS Theo Shilliano had two Unscitution's risks will not be returned unless accompanied by a The addressed envelope . insustions W.S. will not be returned unless accompanied by stamped --- Page 2 --- in normal times . They make the helpful suggestion and grading : ( 3 ) lack of uniformity in methods of in- thing calculated to silly our fair fame , and win for us manimus demand rings forth from Hierarchy and among principals and assistants after certain specified prove true to our holy faith , that he may defend us public , managers and teachers , for the withdrawal of towards this land . on his feast day our fears will be over the destinies of our nation ; ' that we may ever the money now available ought to be divided equally posed method of distribution ; ( 2 ) retention of averages irreligion , and help us to banish from our midst every- the educational White Paper in which the method and spection . These limitations control the teachers to conditions of allocating the E384,000 already passed with undiminished vigour and Apart altogether from the insufficiency of this grant , by Parliament for Irish primary education are set out . refuse the grant despite the intensity of the stress and with him that he may continue his protecting influence deductions are made for the benefits of inspectors , orga- that , as this present financial year is drawing to a close , strain trying to exist on salaries altogether insufficient claim . Knowing the love which the saint bears the All-Ireland deputation ready to meet the Chief dispelled and our hopes' vividly and strengthened , be- against the corroding influences of materialism and lieving that in his hands our future destiny is safe and National Teachers , for the re- National Apostle . The voice of our petition will plead the main objections to the White Paper are ( 1 ) Pro- nisers , pensioners , conductors and teachers of convent those rights to which we have a just and undoubtedly Miscellaneous . merging into one of national importance as evinced by dress of undoubtedly many and that the cause of Faith and Fatherland will triumph . Secretary . The issue is clear-cut , and an almost persistency . This educational impediment is rapidly schools , and junior assistants . This plan , allowing the prayers of Ireland's children will ascend to the On the feast of St. Patrick this year before the altars serious grievances , continues Teachers' Claims : The long-drawn-out agitation conducted by the Irish Irish National 335 ' persistency . --- Page 3 --- of this White Paper are much strengthened by the great assistants from E40 to E 44 per annum given at present , acceptable to all concerned . The hopes of withdrawal the increased war bonus . though they must do work on Civil Service lines had originally supplemented an weight of keenly interested Irish public opinion , and by and consequently they must raise the salaries of lay years ; the monthly payment of the Birrell grant expansion of the E384,000 which " the Resident Com- ret too late to substitute diplomacy for the obstinac- however , and the junior assistants will get no part of anything , would be been heard of the present de- 510 to certain teachers . The bonuses recently raised limited to special salaries , fell so very far behind the acceptable allocation of the E384,000 , very little , if to E64 under the new scheme . The convent schools , missioner now thinks will reach , E500,000 before many hitherto paid annually in arrear : a bonus of E5 to from 4/ - to 8/ - and from 3/ to 6/ per week for those that the additional bonus will be granted to both con- It is to be hoped that a better spirit will prevail and ten shillings per unit of the yearly average attendance , vent teachers and junior assistants . If a war bonus Craik Committee in Scotland to draft a scheme recent changes made in the original scheme , e.g. , the similar to that done in the ordinary national schools . withdrawal of the obnoxious White Paper . It is not will , according to the White Paper , receive an extra termined agitation which , it is hoped , foreshadows the setting up of a Committee of representative Commis- have the additional advantage of giving time for the Civil Service lines that grave disappointment was sioners , managers , teachers , and others similar to the which clearly marks the continuance of an educational eight per cent. of Irish national teachers , and would The conductors of convent schools paid by capitation about # 28 per head , has the hearty approval of ninety- policy distasteful to the Irish people . the cross . caused . 336 which clearly marks the continuance ( 337 --- Page 4 --- attempt advisedly , because we must premise our re- rendered him a ready and submarine obedience . The one the source of all good , the other of all evil . even in our theology that consequent on the primeval sentence and accentuate the punishment , the earth marks by frankly confessing that no adequate explana- with natural and preternatural gifts . Inferior creation graces to stimulate his free will in the right direction as to bring the existence of unmeasured moral evil well tion is forthcoming . However , very many reasons earth spontaneously flowed with milk and honey . fall of Adam the devil acquired a more extensive tingly a tinselled venture of truth : but when denuded observe around us may be placed to his account . universe for them was ruled by two Principles - the man has been deprived of so many extra helps and from which he was to draw sustenance was hidden to influence over men , and very many of the evils we Catholic attempt to solve the problem . We say rumbling down the centuries , and shall rumble to the That garb of truth is wrought from the fact admitted was whispered in his ear , and as if to climax the supremacy , and men were buffeted about as pawns in fuse to a mine , the reverberations of which are still may be alleged which , if not ultimate , at least furnish crack of doom . And because of this same " faux pas Then came the great debacle . " Man contravened the bring forth thorns and thirtles . Between these two raged a never-ending conflict for Thus went forth the flat of the Almighty laying And here we touch the first link in the chain of the of original sin . " Man was placed on this earth endowed In the first place , then , we point to the tragic fact of that it has little to recommend it . solitary command of Jehovah . ' Forthwith he was heretical sects the Manichaeans . It sports unwit- " In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread " solution so simple as to be obviously fallacious . The fashioned by one of the most formidable of the early the game . This theory was subsequently adopted and re- despoiled of his great prerogatives . some sort of apology for the existence of evil . THE CRUSS . These latter adopted a line of despoiled of his great prerogatives . Ancient Persians . These latter adopted a line of Ancient Persians . --- Page 5 --- mate explanation of the difficulty . practical maxim in the philosophy of life : blessings in disguise . that helps to learn . extreme concern ; balance of the Deity . they , were went to unduly emphasize as evil , were scheme of things . Then shall the paradox which tribulation ( according to human standards ) of the Then shall appear the now obscure ramifications of was fashioned that we can hope to see the final " and vista of futurity there shall be a great , foregathering of the Clans of God before His tribunal . Then and only exercised the mind of Job be shown of its garb of mvs- the threads are gathered together into the warp and the cross . fitting solution of the enigma we have propounded . good shall be weighed into conspicuous proportions in the Living here means conscience simply : ' His next life Take the joys and bear the sorrows-neither with tery , for the temporal felicity of the wicked and the then can we assign to evil its due proportion in the Providence and men can estimate that many things In a word , it is only in the Divine Mind where all beyond the bourne of the Great Unknown for the ulti- Meanwhile we recommend , with Browning , as a woof of the pattern according to which this universe 340 , t is a Catholic dogma that at some time in the di Bright , fragile kites against the sun- Before a shouting wind , to . My Upon the world , life as sweet an pilbin . As wind , and strong as sun would bring But all's blown back about our feet . And theirs was the wind's ecstasy : We , who put forth as light a thing Che Kites . I saw three ruddy children run --- Page 6 --- appeared in monthly parts . by soldiers and sailors . the greatest champion of the Catholic solution of life's Keble's " Christian Fear , " pervaded , as it is , by a might well have been written by him at any time in schoolboys - it still holds , unchallenged , the first place are true that in this life we " see now through a glass among spiritual biographies , a human document of the more keenly than he the limitations of human thought were not , and here , we think , is another and important vious philosopher . ' When we study the movement thinkers whose logical goal was Rome . Once inside tone of gentle and restrained pity very different from ranean , he took pen in hand and wrote the great-now , the captured outpourings that came so naturally from Tendimus in Latium " almost sums up his life-story . onward , and made them live with Catholic life , we him to the end . He was always a seeker , a traveller . University does and business clerks , scholars and different . On June 16th , became in the Mediter- the previous thirty years , and indeed it was typical of man's relation to the Infinite . that stirred the " dry bones : " of Oxford from 1832 the Church it is true that he " had no further history of his religious opinions to relate , " for " opinions front rank of our writers . Read by everybody when it thought , their outlook , was essentially Anglican and remained so . You have the spirit crystallized in the lips of a Catholic saint . But Newman was and conviction had now been transformed into the cer- and endeavour in the mysterious realm of religion and phase of religious Liberalism to be the acknowledged leader in the university of a school of writers and tainty of faith . Yet of Newman specially the words Cloud . " But the first line , " Lead , Kindly Light , " When , too , we must not forget his influence as reli- Discover a fundamental difference between Newman in a dark manner ; but then face to face . " No one felt was , sadly hackneyed-poem , the " Pillar of the An Evangelical at the beginning , he passed through a first order . I Newman , then , was read when others Apologia ! " alone would suffice to place him in the uspect of his influence on the Catholic movement . And so Newman appealed to the man of his age as Newman's influence on Catholic Revival . 343 and the other leaders . Their mind , their modes of --- Page 7 --- common stress on the part played by the subjective the dry syllogism , nor for the mere " logician " viewed feeble ; far from it . His faith was strong as the noble me . " We are reminded at once of Newman's dictum of the Church , had its powerful appeal . Now , there must be taken into account . more than perhaps they man . Not that his own hold on objective truth was land , and the growth of the Broad Church side by side the Romantic , and the Lake School typified by Words - worth . And to these the picturesque , the artistic side For Newman , the man , the individual , and all the is a French saving illustrated in many a page of New- Catholic of to-day . How frequently we meet people were two things in Newman and his philosophic out- complex powers that go to make up the individual , are supreme in their interest . He had not much love for daring outbreaks of rationalism in Germany , the Literature , too , the changes had been great . The versifiers of the eighteenth century had given place to have been . if a complete analysis of the steps to the the individual seeker after Truth . " These , he insists , pathetic hearing from the man of his day and ours . element , the peculiarities , powers and weaknesses of who say : " It's either your Church or nothing , for Higher Criticism " movement in Germany and Eng- He lived and wrote in a time which saw the most from St. Ambrose to be found on the title page of the poraries had cut themselves adrift from time-worn First , there was his intense subjectivity , as it is called . the avenue to ultimate religious faith he lays more than with the Catholic party in the Church of England . In has it pleased God to save His people , " is a passage see verified more and more in the cultured non- look which were and are well calculated to gain a sym- is a means for the conversion of souls to Catholic Truth . phantly proves . Only , in describing and explaining habits of thought . It was an age of " movements . ' Finally , Newman laid down a principle which we endured storm and stress of his Catholic life trium- As ships break from their moorings so his contem- Grammar of Assent . " " The heart has its reasons ultimate act of faith is to be given . Non in dialectica " - " not in nor by dialectics alone enigma . He was a traveller , and so was his century . 344 . THE CROSS . ultimate act of faith is to be given . --- Page 8 --- loul was even as my own , ever seeking but unsatisfied . ' There him about : there lay no heron by the health-stone . ' There was The community sang Compline ; the room stood empty . ' Laying hence . I am't come out of a country close unto the sun : whom . and which ceaselessly called upon my soul ; awhile , it slashed he turned , crossing the cobbled cloister-earth to the refactory . awhile , and it grew to be a crane , labouring to the island , to fall the crane where the many-coloured flames from the driftwood overhead , white , waiting sea-swallows thickered and slashed ; while yet a child . a divine desire consumed : driving me in preading shattered feathers about the feet of Columcille . He streve to lay hands upon a mystery which my soul cried union . sent down above the bird , whose breast beat slowly ; an infinite be changed , for that name compels me . For behold , long a true friend , together with her whom he had to wife ; whose as he but now intoned Magnificat , it came to him that Coola- but a most ancient man , with body like a wind-spun , sun-dried manhood to seek the imperishable in perishable things , questing up out of a human face ; anon , it all but stone revealed from spoke , it came as a wind shrilling among heath . selves , but were ruled . And the governor thereof was to me as among wheeling stars for impassable beauty . Day and night , I savour . He passed among spray-soaked sea-pink to leaf , hair and beard as the lichen on a blighted crab-tree . where yellow samphire crowned low cliffs with colour : of that name fell upon my door-stone : who shall not know quiet as the cry of a rare , when the hounds take her . But when he drummon was forgiven him , that flying darkness of the sky , the Che Crane . Now the people of that city wherein I dwelt , ruled not them- until all sound has died into the last silence . " Listen thou , are Have pity upon me , who have not rested since the shadow of vespers . The air struck cool , with an infinity of the lintel , there came a stir and sigh behind him . He turned pity shook him , who but saw in this broken pilgrim his bitter passion of exile reborn . ' Gathering the torn wings to his heart , through with sun . An exhilaration of peace was in his heart : he written page : it brooded in the aether about sundown , or danced , he went to fetch water in a wooden bowl . Crossing it the dawn . But I attained not to it , and my soul achieved . clans crying amid the waste of whins . is a speech , rising and falling , wavering in the sea-wind . Yet Christ , " he began ; but the warmth screamed , and the sound was Something stirred overseas , southward ; for long , he saw it but ast dots of cloud grew out of the south , shot through and COLUMCILLE came from the choir-postern about the close Columbille made a great cross in the air . Columbille made a great cross in the air . " In the name of lans crying amid the waste of whins . 347 --- Page 9 --- there was without but a most vile mob , with much of soldiery . Anasaurus , Ahasuerus , I am whom thou hast sought from the drag him thence : and it was done . And behold , when I would ever among learned writers . For it came to me that some con- whereabout it dwelled . Whereupon , in anger , I went down : to study again , there came a weakness upon me , and a great governor , and after , sitting late into the dawn , pondering philo- many years later , that upon a night of spring I supped with the womb ! But before the womb have I sought these : but because a tumult throughout the city , drawing close , even to the doors , wherein all things were changed , and amid the new , one walked , overwrought with study , and worth that I be disturbed . I babe whose face was as that of a leader of rabble and rout , who but life , lowered His body from the tree . From thence I have been a quick mist before the eyes of Columcille , so that he caught altar , for the Benediction . As the last note sounded there came that woman dwell much upon it , being moved . And it happened . His wounded hands , that we rest this night within His peace ! ' sleep , and troubled , saying to us that she had dreamed a dream , to hover about His head until those who had received Him in that day stood condemned by the governor : whom she prayed . himself , as one coming out of sleep . He was alone in the empty But I , returning thence into my dwelling , slept not ; seeking upon the truth . And the day deepened . Then grew from a far but as one thought therein , whose prayer was Rest . But being that I swooned , hearing as it were a voice in heaven : many shapes , knowing no rest but when one receives me in pity hearken-even now is the lifted up again , He himself lifting up bidding her put away all fear ; and we parted . and cliffs . Overhead , dark against the cloud-cluster , a single made unquiet for ever ! ' Then my soul went forth as a raven , refectory ; from the door there was the sea-pink , samphire chair , they took the Host from the hanging pyx high above the starling shot , upon half-shut wings , far into the fushing south . came a new star of a sudden upon the night-sky , and men wondered , but the star set , and was no more : but the mind of Our pity is but a little thing , beside that of Him Whom thou THE CROSS . that he moved no more against the man . ' But he laughed , for a space . ' an pilbin . summation was presently to be , that even now I ran close ou would't not that I should abide by thee , behold thou art ere fell three clear , sweet strokes of a close-by bell : Though shall outwear this curse : 348 . super the shaking world , with much else of horror ; so drawest . " cried Columbia . ' Thou shalt outwear this curse : drawest , " cried Columcille . a malefactor upon my threshold ; who raised eyes that had sophy . But with the day-star came his wife , new-waked " thou would't not that I should abide by thee , behold thou art 349 --- Page 10 --- fancy will probably never succeed in achieving anything more the full achievement of the necessary labour to fulfil the end than paltry deeds in fact . If achievement comes up to exec- We are usually too practical in dealing with the affairs of life attracted anything bright and lovely heavenwards . ' Another achieve even a moderate success , than to shuffle along in the need not blind us to the existence of skies which glisten for a satisfied with his greatest work . It always falls below his original conception . And why ? Because he was a visionary , very wonderful . " Conception of the ideal to be striven for and leaving the wondering mite to speculate as to what it was that a sordid existence which was shared by a tiny daughter . " Into her way towards fame . The average reader if there is such declares how much better is life under the open canopy of the tion of the sky , mine is not the sense in which the ragged tramp inknowing soul left in wonderment by the mystery of the sky . moment , and an on are gloomy . In any case . Synge's tinkers street . ' The half-entranced youngster follows , follows in despair practical , and often cannot see that there is room for a little butterfly goes out the door . out into the foetid air of the dismal else . She gazes almost estranged at the vision , eyes glued on gaudy butterfly ! Immediately the child has eyes for nothing wherein a drunken husband and a nagging wife dragged along not let that blind us to the fact that the sky is always there dream about . But , the man who does not do great things in a graphic description of a house in a London sum-a dwelling the lovely hues of the delicately-tinted wines . following every visionary wanderings in directions where to our solid gaze all delightful little sketch by a writer who is now steadily pushing movement of the uncertain visitant . And , after a little ! the after all , is it not better to set out , with hope high-flying , to plished something which satisfies himself has not done anything of losing the one steam of brightness which had ever come into our philosophy , we do not forget their existence , only we do her drab life . Then the butterfly ascends -in and still in- the dull tenement room on a summer morning comes what ? A dweller-rather do I plead that the possession of snug roofs that really matter . ' We are dreamers' where we should be province of any one mortal . The greatest man was never THE CROSS . It is a maxim with artistic folk that the artist who has accom- is gloom and of dreamy portent . Years ago . ' it was my privilege to read the manuscript of a and ultra-idealistic imaginings . ' So , when I plead for a reten out became hopelessly snowed-under , by his orgy of fanciful which the vision of the artist has foreseen are rarely within the which are only details too airy in our wrestling with the items heavens than beneath the comfortable roof-tree of the orthodox and visionaries can never hope to accomplish all that they can tation , then the expectation must not have been great . And , a person-would have seen little in the sketch . It was chief do not worry about the clouds that would never do ! But . 350 1961 62m. --- Page 11 --- capital dinner , washed down by copious draughts of fine old evening . Major Kras will sleep and done here , and when he Major , there would be deadly bloodshed ; for he would never See that a very good dinner is laid for them in the barn this into the castle about twelve o'clock when they will you what , old fellow . ' I'll swap that confounded old castle , hobgoblins and all , for a few dozen of this fine old port . ' port , to which Darby generously helped him . not employed this little stratagem to dislodge our friend , the to stir . I banged the Major's cure open an thin made for the glass , he said : " By joke , this is nectar for the gods . I tell me was lightin' up grand an ' blue . They won all too frightened sodgers a witch's dance , me name's not Darby Finery . ' The Major qualified another deep draught , and putting down Sure . what wud it be ever honour , but the banshee ; the A Case or Sarstield's Times . with a steam of humour in his eye . " Tell us , Darby . ' could it mean . a-bed-so I let go a screech an ' began a canine fit to drive the All fell out exactly as had been planned . The Major ate a very civil away . his experience of the previous night , and asked his host what After dinner when the Major became confidential he related into exile . I got through the tunnel unbeknownt an ' was getting In the Days of the Wild Geese . An' the Rapparees , ver honour . if they didn't lead if peacefully resign his possession of the O'Driscoll property . ' the Major said . " You may withdraw . Darby could answer that better than I , " replied MacVeagh , I'd the white sheet on me all right , and the stuff you get Sir Fergus laughed heartily . ' All is fair in love and war . Had chapter VII . O'Driscoll allus had a very powerful man . ' Remain near in case you should be wanted , " subjoined his account of his adventures during the previous night . That will do my man , I want to speak to your master . ' " The Major . he ups an tollys me , but I jumped down the the vaults as fast as me legs " ud carry me . as retired I shall visit our friends in the barn . this very hour Sir Fergus was listening to Darby's master . By GREGORY BARR , Author of " Retribution , " etc , rap-dure an ' had it fastened in a jifty . A ap-dure an ' had it fastened in a jiffy . --- Page 12 --- was haunted . " Again , the O'Driscoll property had been already Nor , " laughed Sir Fergus , not wishing to seem too eager to from accepting an offer made under the delusion that the castle accept this ring , and distribute the contents of the purse among have plenty of wine say you agree to my offer . ' Darby , bring my writing materials . " said Sir Fergus , who After breakfast the following morning . Sir Fergus offered the Oh. come ! We-fought together under William's green flag signed it and Darby witnessed it . Then Sir Fergus , handing him a ring , said : " You will at least Next day Darby brought a letter to Madame O'Driscoll inviting THE CROSS . he would never accent money from one who had saved his life . transferred from Major Krag , though he knew it not . So Sir fell in with the Major's own news ; so , before nightfall not a red-coat was visible . his guests in the barn . make a bargain . will compensate you . ' and in a price were transformed into goblins . lacVeagh's high sense of honour would have prevented him Rapparees were seated . All rose and cheered when the Baronet your companions . By means of their harmless mimicry they entered . He made a sign to silence them . you can , if you wish , sack a cellar of the rebels and you will Sir Fergus touched the bell . Darby appeared with majority . Were it not to secure the castle for its rightful owner , if he would at once withdraw his men from Killarney . This soldiers . " The men laughed , threw something over their heads , Well , to oblig a comrade , I suppose I must yield . I shall Then , addressing the men , he added : Major twenty additional sovereign and a second barrel of wine a short time without danger . Lady MacVeagh and her only After the Major had retired to rest , Sir Fergus went to visit have preserved this valley from further strife . her and her two sons to Toro Fort , where they could remain for him a well-filled purse , which the Ravvaree declined , saying An agreement ! my hand on it , " cried out the Major . forthwith wrote the agreement in a few words . The Major give you eighty sovereign and a barrel of my best port , that Fergus replied : And what worthy refreshment could I offer my friends if I : Take care , lady ! " if you waken the Major we may have part with my wine ? " They could not drink the stones of Castle We must drink your honour's health , at all events , " said Sean Rua was at the head of the table , at which a number of return . but you must continue to reach home unnoticed by the trouble . ' When this was done . Sir Fergus called Sean aside and handed Sean . 354 . You can all now your companions . By means of their harmble --- Page 13 --- teimann . Castro re tall about four as tessars spur as bairhead teamarily , as sabsil remain an air rise . remain a period waso- Carks's bi sun. star too twin psonsir in Teine Carss an harsh isur nap pas re robur an cperom sun 'na bisro . ' Di results , accommodate spur are been seen on cool to clear is irresome , gun best sit ran Oilean so left non customers to tion read me'd down about I receive a tsocial bi as more using date . Strange sit-no shine 1 mbeants . Once no Oliste as m'Onerteaman as an husband of an politician chlorosists : nbinn . 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Dem ear up from his heipesn . ceine run about his madpan so bed i , agur despasto ri bus syar bi signest taps into proposals star as Diasoitid , star of trainreinto spur san flu equge his rearm bumps . Not must THE Laoxame cast do Labour or certain fierce technical Map son left an obstonents wife , bi obstrogeptics , as sailin go concisures as up again re successfulists easlair a rain . ' Lion're like he visited podsil . So is a hair nistic agur ap usirlio Eipeann wife . " sur an metro biob da Pasanac do ' better area . ' Do reminded parats its ownts as rasmsir as rios . to bi-n-sice can s bips come up . If not burn go must cause pionate , nemann ni madran so died e , le consham usur he During Dennis's earlier run : 1 1,000 MACs set " no whom- corr ns temel . been proposals itsomts , put his h-simine to be re , as obtain : & A DICESLL CUN OLISTE INSITE O" PASSN. OFF MS rin " An Seancur Mop . " discumb too reshpesto' le rolur sn chevorn skir sn ro resninsor . " Bonowitz Laksine O's Lsoons ran son to write too can not him as list to spur an useful expansion wife . ' an c-And-kit-cash to propagate an openbeam to censor-reason - CONNSC sn't-Spo-Rigs , an centre star to inspiring re'd On isis rein . " Soist Patnais " a custom sir . Lansoan , bfo eile . 357 --- Page 14 --- wrought . . We would have preferred " had died " to conclude this charming triffe as somehow a word more canorous . In Mr. MacEntee's of " Whose finger holds the nations in its fold " ? In accepted terms last verse is a note of unnecessary and superfluous regret . Instead of " France " auspiciously . It is a pity to be betrayed into a snake of lunency . " as on page 28 . And on the next page , what is the meaning The simulation of a noble sound , rom carelessness , are least excusable and deter forgiveness upon the In the great quiet of Eternity . We refrain from quoting lines last we should institute invidious com- of reference fingers do not possess " folds " ! Defects like these arise With the simple faith that conquers , to the gentle Crucified own , but alas ! havete linguis ! the others forbid a snake to " rear " and Where the peasant folk in passage from earth to hamlet pray , part of the reader who has been disappointed at not finding the pleasure Literary notes . parisons between sexual charms . It is indeed winning and winningly Thus would the grave divide us far apart , that fair infrequented valley . And again we enjoy in Fand's farewell to Emer : " Give wives to tools and gold to knaves my stanza should be found therein to end with such a word as appropriated that which Wordsworth had not been predestined to in There's a little wayside station hard by a riverside A shade more care and " Alps "de St. Shenhanie " had come into her ornament ; for both subject and ornament must range together to attain oblivion greater than renown . ' sound as are his sonnets , there is always the gravamen that Shakee- facile inepitude as obvious as any that is set in the sight of any bird . A moment breaking silence and then drowned Looming morosely , Aing its , shade at hwart I made my love a little secret house . " And rank to the servile' knee That His peace and love may listen their traveller day . ' And the freedom of God for me . ' Are these my songs , just a faint tinkling bell In his address to Ireland , our poet grandly declares he " holds repining let him arise and do , because it is in him to perform . Several Reviews are unavoidable held over . ) For perfect prettiness of conceit we refer you to : ' Preaching no moral or philosophy , Whose ears had caught the Angels' yesper prayer , Not the proud boys a lofty poet wears And the dear barrier of the dead brown clay , greatness . ' But the wind and the rain and the open road This is extremely graceful and lacks but the subject to identify the The splendour and the brightness of our day . " P. F. Little . Bravo " The Vagabond " I etc. And again : - Speaking of Mr. MacEntee's book as a whole , it is unfortunate that peare and Milton have , whatever the critics allege to the contrary , he has been taught to look for . But is not this inspiring That His peace and love may lighten their trai --- Page 15 --- tained windows in some city square . There is too alert a sense of the poems were assuredly not written by candle-light behind heavily-our . before us . " Hills of Dublin , " by An Philibin ( a pseudonym not un- most precious part of a poet's heritage . A ramble over Ben Edar or much it is needless to add that there is nothing in it of that pseudo- to admit of that possibility . From the noble opening poem on " Dublin " inspiration almost wholly from the great days of Ireland's past . Notable as an island of saints seemed in danger of drifting into a mob of ma- and Iseult , of the Northmen and the coming of Patrick . With a subtle changing beauty of our Irish earth and sky and sea , caught in its mystic , " neo-Celtic " note-ridiculed by Mr. J. which has spoiled so much of Irish literature in the recent past . The their verse is that while not patriotic in the vulgar sense , it draws its poet lays his reader under a spell the power of which will be felt long but in a compromise with darkness . We who had started our history sense of place , are the dominant notes of his work , and having said so terialists . But , like an instinctive protest against the dream shooting of artistry which knows nothing of artificiality or straining after effect , the rears . Dark years they have been , when rise men saw nothing to hope passing and set down in many a vivid and flashing phrase in these pages to-day is the outburst of song that has marked the last few in this respect , though pot in this alone , is the volume that now lies the birds of night came in the songs of our poets a sudden and almost startling salutation of the dawn . ' And the most arresting thing about after the book has been read . Sincerity and simplicity , with a keen impressive , signs of the times to be observed in the Ireland of page that does not reveal that keen sense of the beautiful which is the familiar to readers of " The Cross " ) . To open the book is to be waited to the last few poignant lines on " The Starlings , " there is scarcely a the hills above Dublin in the opening spring with this little volume as companion would be something to remember . publishing houses , the Talbot Press . the cross . By an pilidin . The book is faintly produced by that most progressive of Dublin Fills of Dublin . " BREARS one of the most heartening , as it is one of the most back to the old heroic days , the days of Finn and the Fianna , of Trist 1907 # Dublin : The Talbot Press . Price one shilling . --- Page 16 --- and is awakening to the full glory of the spring- member , of the Guild . " I first became acquainted with the splendid So writes Lilian M. Nally , and not content with tion . Perhaps the members will not grudge some of the space that would otherwise be devoted to their own letters for the publication of the skylark and the chorus of blackbirds , to the letter in full , it is so excellently written and is so brimful of apprecia this heartening message from one whom we hereby elect an honorary think she would not blame me for saying that the Guild had won more . I am in a world that has thrown off its sure clothes And who soon shall set us free ! with a song on While she in green is gowned . ers gladdening under the caressing ray of God's time to the twittering of nestlings in wee downy praise I am deeply grateful . I wish I could afford to quote her long sending me that musical poem in prose , she also gladdens my heart Starring each Vale and hold . Lo ! the laughing flowers respond . This morning a queen is crowned , Waving her wand of gold ; Snow drops nod to the breeze ; Stealoth she thro'd all the land , Little nestlings chirping , course , Rita was loud in her praise for the whole of its contents , but I'm Brigid Cafferkey , of Ballina , for whose generous And blossoms on the trees . All the birds a-carolling are All hail to Him who sent her Narcissi't all and white ; Are springtime's sure delight . Spring is here in Ireland , In field and hedge and tree ; abide for ever in Fairyland . A very big delivery of delightful letters this month again from now eternal sunshine . " Crocus cups and violets blue , Pale daffodils come gliding in , and old members and from admirers of the Guild , POST BAG , who are not members at all . Of the latter is Miss- from Tirina wOz and the company of the eyes : here Lady Spring , so shy and sweet . back again . Lilian Mary Nally . think we're all glad now that Lilian didn't make up her mind to spring . There are primroses in sheltered hooks nests , the hymn of " Here I am back ! magazine , ' The Cross , ' through your old friend . Rita Carlos . usual poem in prose , she also gladdens my heart beauty of wild flower my post bag . # U.MANN. who are not members at all . Of the latter is Miss --- Page 17 --- very long . THE CROSS . on St. Brigid by Rita Carlos was appreciated very highly in the in last month's Guild has been mentioned by several members in terms Brigidine Convent School , Mountrath . " The information asked for by is delighted with her prize volume and has read it from cover to cover . new members have been enrolled by Thomas J. Brangan , K.B.S. , nice letters this month . A new member from Co. Kildare is Eileen Ni'Uaithne , Sighte Ni' Uaithne and Ellis Carlos , and I ' The Cross . " it will be given to him without fail . My two good friends Teresa Keatley , E. de M. , and it is with the greatest pleasure I Simmott , this month , and trust she will write to me often . Maggie time every month will be found at the head of the first page of reading ing letter , which " pleased me very much . I am glad that our ever- Hunt . William Scully . Ivy Taylor , Maggie Taylor , and Katie Kelly . message to the Guild . She will be pleased to hear that her sweet poem are Nora Monaghan and Annie Gordon , both of whom are heartily sworts , Co. Dublin : Brendan J. Brangan , K.B.S. ; illness , and to learn that she was feeling as well as ever . ' Riga Carlos They are all as welcome as the flowers of May . The Blessed Gabriel welcome . I was delighted to hear from Maura Wheeler after her long If Rita addresses a letter to " Muiris na Mona , " c/0 the Editor of faithful honorary member , Miss B. M. O'Neill , never forgets to send a matter . The Irish form of her name is Maire Ni Oleirigh . The following in Howth-Ellis Ni Mhadileoin and Annie Boyle have both written very Dowing writes to return thanks for her prize and to say that the essay of the highest praise . I was glad to hear from my friend , Mollie welcome her into the Guild . Thanks to Bridie Redmond for her interest- and to their companions a hearty welcome . Two new Dublin members 364 Maire Clarke as to the best way of securing a copy of " The Cross " in Dermot Brangan , Sophie Healey , Marcella Kelly , Marion Healey , Badges are unobtainable at present , but we hope to have them before awarded to Ada O'Neill , Presentation"Convent . from Ellis N. Riain , Angela Toner , ' Kitty Boylan , Drogheda . Very well-written essays were received Eibulin Ni Chonnalaigh . Maggie Bowden , Willie Byrne , Aine Ni" Jaithne , Why was it that not one of the competitors mentioned St. Enda of Nora Monaghan , Mary J. McCall , Maureen McNally , Nora Corry , Sighle N. Uaithne , Ellis. Carlos , Mary J. McGowan , E Aran , the teacher of some of the greatest of the Irish Saints ? 1 . The prize for the best essay on " Two Great Saints of March " is Rita Nic Alasdair , Maggie Bowden , Willie Byrne , Aine Ni Vaith THE AWARDS . Rita Nic Alasdair , put your name and address on your Competition admitted to membership of the Guild . ( 2 ) Always from their competition papers , asking to be ( ) All newcomers will please write a personal note to Francis , apart Paper , whether you send a letter or not . ( 3. ) Orders for copies of " The Cross " and all business letters should be addressed to The Manager . important . (1. ) All newcomers . IMPORTANT . admitted to membership of the Guild . ( 2 ) Always Prize Essay this month . Owing to pressure on space we were unable to find room for --- Page 18 --- 366 number of kind and willing helpers who contributed largely by their 30th January . We feel grateful to least in the sphere of religion and was served during the evening by a efforts to making the 'ceilidh one of morals by baneful foreign influence . Argus . a very successful concert February : The following artistes including Miss Lena Munro . Miss Terrv O'Connor . Miss Kathleen gave their services for the occasion , of the Catholics of Harborne took On Sunday . 17th March , feast of Nugent . Miss' Gertrude Cualahan O'Neill . Mr. A. Irvine Lynch . Mr. coming from whatever source . Tea mass by Rev. Father Kiernan , O.P. , Argus , in Gaelic , at the 12 o'clock place in Moor Pool Hall on 11th in a variety of directions , and not open a fortnight's mission at Mount the talented artistes who so kindly Belfast , from 3rd to 17th March . and all " the prayers of the day , out- Gerhard Crofts , and Mr. Denis Our Lady of Refuge , Rathmines , by contributed towards the success of saint will be preached at Mount renovating the organ at Mount the most successful in the children's Lynch . Mr. Len Keppel , Mr. Reeve , the concert : Miss W. Pilley . presided at the piano and proved and Rev. Father Joseph , O.P. will Master Stephen Lynch . Miss Rosina St. Patrick , " the panegyric of the was given at the Mansion House on attended and most enjoyable social chronicle . herself an accomplished accom- and Rev. Father Stanislaus . C.P. . side the liturgy , will be recited in will conduct a mission in St. Paul's , Harborne . St. Mary's . A well mon was preached in the Church of Mr. B. Grafton . very Rev. Father Francis , O.P. , the Canonization of Blessed Gabriel and the cause of Gemma' Galgani , Argus on March 10th. February 17th. To provide funds for repairing and forwarded to the Postulators at Rome . nage , Harold's Cross , a charity ser- the damage that has been wrought On behalf of St. Clare's Orpha- the native tongue . as soon as possible to The Manager , St. Paul's Retreat , Mount Argus , Rev Father Ignatius , O.P. , on Verv Rev. Father William , C.P. . passionist . in thanksivism for favour received through their intercession . A experience . "nox donations . for which we are sincerely grateful , will be Dublin . panish . already sent their subscriptions for 1918 are requested to forward them Dublin . 367 requested to write to The Manager , St. Paul's Retreat , Mount Argus , TO SUBSCRIBERS .Subscribers to " The Cross " who have not Those who are desirous of becoming promoters of " The Cross " are ceived 2/ from K. O'L. 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