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RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS ELROD SENTENCED TO TWO

BEING INDEXED.

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WIFE'S PLEA DENIED.

AN EXCHANGE OF LETTERS BETWEEN CHIANG & TUAN.

ADVICE SOUGHT.

[By Cardinal Gasquet.) Cardidel Gasquet, the most

In the United Stated Court for eminent

Among the numerous events in Catholic English

delightful exchange scholars, and the author of so China (Shanghai) a sentence of two Peking was a many works on mediaeval visit to years' imprisonment at McNeill's of letters between Chiang Kai-shek England. He was good, enough to Island penitentiary was imposed by and Tuan Chi-jui, the leader of the talk to an "Observer" representa- Judge Milton D. Purdy on Clifford new and the leader of the old. tive about the two great tasks upon C. Elrod, a former Shanghai Mund- Chiang Kai-shek's letter rend:

"My dear and venerable teacher: which he is engaged, at the age of cipal Council employee, found guilty eighty-twa. As Prefect of the of assault with intent to kill his Vatican Archives, he is supervis-wife, Mrs. Eulalie Elral, on the ing the preparation of an index morning of July 3, at 360 Avenue to the great Library, containing Joffre,

nearly half a million books and At the commencement of the 600 Manuscripts, while he is also session, Major C. P. Holcomb ap President of the Commission for peared on behalf of accused's wife' the Revision of the Vulgato.

and petitioned the court to suspend

The former work, upon which sentence in view of the circum- twenty experts are engaged, will, stances of the case as accused's wife Cardinal Gasquet thinks, prob-wished to leave China with her hus- ably, occupy Live years. "The band and return to America. whole cost, which the Americans Mr. J. B. Davies, 'acting Diatrist' kindly provided out of the Car-Attorney, summing up for the U. negic funds will amoant to ats. Government, then pointed out to least £5,000 or £6,000, They in-the Court that the maximum sen. vited two of our people to visit tence for the offence with which America to study the modern card-accused had been found guilty was index systems of the principal 16 years, the two objects of the libraries one of them spent six law being on the one hand to punish months touring the various insti-the- accused and on the other to tutions, while another stayed at afford protection to society. Mr. Columbla University-and furnish-Davies did not agree with Major| ed us with a duplicate of the won- Holcomb that suspended sentence derful Index of the Congress would meet the requirements of Library, which will be of great) assistance. Dr. Nicholas Murray

His Honour in passing sentence Butler, the head of Columbia Uni- versity, has taken a prominent said that in his opinion accused was part in the scheme, and Mr. suffering from a breakdown at the Bishop, of the Carnegie body, with time of his action on July 3; Beveral colleagues, is supervising he had not been normal as far se the work'ta Rome. At first it was all his faculties were concerned. feared that the Americans might There were times, he continued, want to carry out the work sole-when situations arose between men ly in their own way, but it is be-and women which ended in similar ing undertaken on the friendficat situations to that of the Elrods on basis."

July 3. Accused would be better off. The Library accommodation, ex-away from his wife for a period, plained His Eminence, had been His Honour stated, and as far as sentence W28 concerned Increased one third by taking over the

the case.

the stables, formerly devoted to clemency or parole could be applied the Papal carriages and horses, for after a portion of the sentence It is in these converted stables had been served. The Court could that the last new Index will even- not hear cases of this kind and [tually be installed. ...,:~

then impose a slight punishment. "The coachman, of course, is It would be a serious mistake in broken-hearted at the change," he the administration of justice in this remarked, "but these carriages, community. Therefore, accused was with their twenty horses, have sentenced to two years' imprison- Jong been superseded, and the ment on McNeill's Island.. stables were kept going mainly be- cause of the interest shown in them by visitors.”

SIGNOR MUSSOLINTS GIFT. Students and authorities from all over the world. particularly France and Germany, who consult the Vatican Library regularly, will! find the new index an indispens- able boon. The collection includes rare and vaulable volumes and manuscripts-many with romántic, and even tragic, histories-which are being added to continually.

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**Three or four, rare and ex- tremely valuable collections MSS. have been added during the time I have been librarian," de- élared Cardinal Gasquet, "among them that of Prince Chigi,, which includes me interesting Greek плея. The Prince wanted to sell (the 'whole lot, together with the Palace, but Pope Benedict, XV. would not hear of it. In the end the Government bought up bath, and Signor Mussolini, whose State offices were under the Library, offered it to the Vatican as a gift. It contains Rome important State papers of Cardinal Chizi, who after became Pope.

Bao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Min- Inter to the United States.

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"In the Rossi collection, which fitted in with them. In the near we recently succeeded in reclaim-future I hope, to get a look at ing from Austria, thero were a them."

It is now nearly 23 years since

I have seen your venerable. Excel- lency. Do you remember a young man by the name of Chow? Well, that young man is 1, You kindly taught me much about political affairs and I am very grateful toj you for your kind teachings. Now the attainment of the Nationalists has been achieved and the North-" ein armies suppressed, I should: appreciate very much to have your point of view, You have always been a staunch supporter of the Republic in China right' from the very beginning, as well as the establishing of the capital at Nanking. During your term of office, and your administration in Peking thera was much dis turbance, and I should much ap- preciate if you will do your beat to encourage the Republican ad- ministration. Now that we have been victorious in suppressing the Northern armies, the only thing to complete the revolution is the realisation of the Three Principles for the purpose of equal freedom. These Three Principles must be realized and we must allow no'opposition. So I trust your venerable Excellency will, in accordance with the Three Principles, give your sup- port and good advice, and assur- ing you of my highest regard and esteem for your venerable Excel- lency.

I am, etc., (Sgd.,) CHIANG KAI-SHEK.” To this effusive epistle, Marshal Tuan replied:

"Your letter of July 5th reached me only yesterday. I have noted its contents,

A great task has been com- pleted with the occupation of Peking. Although I am a specta- tor, I feel proud of your achieve- ment. I used to read the analects of Confucius and was particularly| impressed by the passage in which the great sage said: "Treat all things in a magnanimous spirit and regard wealth and power as a passing cloud." "The idea of this, I trust, can be appreciated by all.

This year, I attain my 64th birthday anniversary. Decrepit and Alckly, I have taken to Buddhism and a vegetable dict for the past eight years. I feel that all things are illusory, and have ceased to take any interest in worldly affairs.

I have nothing to do with coun- ter-revolutionary activities alleg- ed to be ggg on between Tientsin and Dairen under my patronage: As a matter of fact. I do not like the idea of hearing: these activities. Is it not posal- ble that some one has used my name for his ulterior purposes?

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great number of incunabulæ, rare The other absorbing and exact- early booka printed Italy, which ing task in which Cardinal Casquet figured in our index, but which we has a shure-the revision of the did not possess. Early in the last Vulgate was instituted twenty- century the Archduchess di Rossi one years ago by a special Com- stipulated that if ever the Jesuita mission of which he is president. were driven out, the collection was The Genasis volume has been to go to the Emperor of Austria. published, the Exodus, and Levi- They were driven out-and it ticus volume is nearing completion. sound mind was returned at an in-1 went. When the last war came but it will be nother ten years quest at Hampstead on

Fre- we thought we might lose this col-before the task is Anished. All derick Durham, aged 87, A lection for good, but the Interest the principal MSS. compiled in the Fellow of the Royal College of Sur- of the Italian Government was 1,000 yours between St. Jerome's geons, who, while suffering from aroused in it, and after long translation and the first printed senile dementia, jumped from a win-. negotiations we succeeded in' per-version have

Culted, and dow and was killed.

suading the Austrian Government for this purpose the eight to ten

that the collection rightly belong-scholars eng god on the work In a big fire that broke out at ed to us. There were three or have obtaine facgimile photo the head office of the Royal Hun- four waggon-loads. of It! - graphs from collections all over garian State Railway in Budapest. "Sometimes we have been able the world. tcome is a text part of the staircase crashed to the be regarded as basement, and 10-firemen were erome version, injured.

the various al- incorporated

o augment the Library by ex which can change. We had.. for instance, the genuine large collection of documents rewith a recon lating to the administration of the ternative v

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A message from Warsaw states Papal States generally, which we from time to ime. "Each page, that 10 persons were killed and exchanged for documents of and His Eminence displaying many seriously injured when a pas purely ecclesiastical nature which specimen, "resembles, as you scesenger train crashed into a goods had come into the hands of the complicated page of Euclid!" Government when it seized every- In his eighty-third year, Car west of Warsaw.

train at GrojecStation, 28 miles thing. That was a satisfactory dinal Gaaquél is a figure of charm, Jeal for both sides.

ready wit, and benignity, but can- REVISION OF THE VULGATE. not readily move about."I had The British Government pre- two severe attacks of influenza, and then seemed to lose the use ented us with a series of rolis, hronicles and memorials which of my legs," he confided. "In a re very valuable. Sometimes we fortnight I am moving into a cot- see things we want in the sale tage at Ruchampton, and shall room, but have to let them go atay there three months to re At Sotheby's the other day, for cuperate."- nstance, it was a buyer for the

Government who outbid us for a A Belgian mission that is making

fxteenth century letter-book of a ground survey for Cardinal Reginald Pole. We have airr

lot of his letters in the Vatican Congo ready, and It would have been Nairal interesting to see how these others for

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