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CARDINAL MERRY DEL VAL ON FROM QUEEN ELIZABETH'S DAY

BIBLE - READING

3,000 AUTHOR'S BANNED

swers:-

TO 1930

ROMANCE OF ST. JAMES'S

Preparations for the Naval Confer-

ANOTHER OUTRAGE AT MARSEILLES

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POLICE PUNISHED The new edition of the "Index Librorum Prohibitorum,"

Marseilles has the official ence wore in progress when I visited St. enviable reputation In consequence of

obtained An catalogue of books forbidden to Roman James's Palace, prosaic matters deal-the repeated outrages committed by Catholics by the Holy Office of the ing with telephone installations, green bandits. Two days after the verdict of Roman Catholic Church, was published balze tables, blotting pads and ink, the trial of the men at the Aix-en- last month, but is only now on sale bottles, writes a Morning Post repre-Provence Assizes for the murder of a in different Italian towns. Issued by sentative. But St. James's Palace as a bank messenger, another bank mes the Papal Press of the Vatican State, meeting house for a naval disarmament senger has been attacked at Marseillea the first copy was presented to Pius conference has a more romantic appeal and robbed of 73,300 fr. (about £586). XI. by Cardinal Merry del Val, who than office appliances. opens the volume with an Italian pre-

The verdict in the Aix trial was des It was to St. James's Palace that erlbed in the Press as "abominable," face. To those who contend that the Queen Elizabeth hastened from Bich and this new butrage has moved condemnation of harmful books is violation of liberty, diminishes.the light Armada had set sail for the British in France or in the jungle. There are mond when it was learnt that the newspaper to ask whether Marseilles is of truth, and rotards the progress of coast. It was here that she held couns hints of base intrigues of politicians letters and selence, the Cardinal ancil with Drake and her Admirals. It and detectives, especially after an in-

was to the Great Council Chamber cident which occurred First of all it is manifest that no that her enemies, Lord Howard, the

the Aix trial. one is better fitted than the Catholle Catholic Peers, and the aristocracy of his capacity of Minister of the Interior, It is significant that M. Tardieu, in Church to teach that the Creator has Britain came to offer allegiance and has found it necessary to make a num endowed man with liberty, and no

to defend her shares with ships and ber of changes. M. Gosaard, the cen one has done more than the Church mun against Phillip of Spain.

'tral police commissary of Marseilles, to defend this Praestantissimum The courtyards were then full of has been retired, His place will be fill donum Del against all who have mounted men ready to carry messages, ed by M. Boiron, the commissary of dared to deny it or circumscribe it calling all good citizens to arms or de Nancy, M. Griseni, the chief of the in any way. Only those infected by livering despatches, offering assistance detective department of the town, has the moral plague that goes by the from men of every party and creed. been moved name of liberalism can consider the The greatest naval conference in our Thomieux, another polico commissarY, exercise of free-will to be injured by history was then being held, but it has been sent toPau. certain restraints placed by legitim meant war and destruction. ate authority on libertinism; as if man, because he la master of his own acts, has a right invariably to the high seas will be in progress. The, that he had received information from follow his own will.

delegates will be from five countries a woman friend of the proprietor of The actual founder of the Index is the United States, Japan, France, the motor-car to the effect that she Pope Gelasius, as the earliest known 'Italy, and Great Britain, As in the could give interesting Information instance of a list of proscribed books days of Elizabeth an endeavour will be about the thieves. On four occasiona in the "Notitia Librorum Apoc:y made to sink all differences for the he had vainly urged M. Grisoni, the phorum" issued by this Pope in 494.common object. Telephones and 300 Chief of the Surete, to hear this woman, With the invention of printing, one of newspaper reporters will replace des but the latter did not do so, and he the chief functions of the Inquisition patch riders, sub-committees on every

had to request the examining mogis- was to exercise a rigid censorship over conceivable issue will replace consulta,trate to make an inquiry. Grisont de- books and authors; as printing-presses tions between Elizabeth and Sir Walter nied that he had received any informa increased, so did the severity of the Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake.

tion from M. Thomieux, but the ex Church. Church organisation was

amining Palace of Ease

magistrate confrmed fully prepared to meet the assaults of The vicissitudes of St. James's Palace Thomieux's statement and sent a dele the Reformation. The first Roman have been many, yet to this day it Kation to the Surete, to take the evid Index, in the modern ecclesiastical use bears the cachet of the English Court; ence of the woman. of the term, was published by Pope foreign Ambassadora se still accredit Paul V. In 1557, and ten years latered to the Court of St. James's, though Pius V. instituted permanent Con- the Palace has long ceased to house the gregation of Cardinals to draw up the Sovereign. list of prohibited books.

During the Brst two months of 1930

a conference which aims at peace on

to Troyes,

Disregarded Warning

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M. Thomieux, in his evidence, stated

M. Stagnaro, a bank mes-

After an official inquiry it was held that the driver of the motor-car and the "Unknown" should have been ar rested, and M. Tardieu's action against The Palace was built in 1532 by Grisoni, the detective Principles of Selection

chief, and Henry VIII. He had taken over Thomicux, the police commissary, was The continuity of principle in the Wolsey's Palace in the woodlands of dictated by what came out at the trial. Roman Catholic Church is strikingly Whitehall. The proximity of The latest outrage occurred in broad illustrated by the method followed in lepers' home dedicated to St. James daylight. the Index. The condenation of annoyed him, so he had it pulled down senger, had made his usual rounds and Origen by Pope Anastasius in the and built himself a small palace of re- was proceeding to the house of a friend fourth century is based on the same tirement and ease, Holbein was com-to lunch when he was assailed by threa eriterion as is followed to-day in simi-missioned to design the entrance, which young men armed with revolvers and lar cases; that is to say, works are, con- still exista, The parklands and deer forced into a motor-car, which drove demned not so much for the errors they forest then extended to beyond Hamp-away. The bandits robbed the bank contain as for the dangers to which stead Heath.

messenger of his wallet, containing the they expose the faithful. It should be It was from this Palace of Ease and sum mentioned, and his pocketbook, in remembered that, whether expressly Retirement that, King Hal set out on which were a thousand francs. mentioned in the Index or not, certain his hunting expeditions early in the Stagnaro was then pushed out of the M. categories of books are understood, morning, returning with his men after motor-car, which soon disappeared in 1pno facto, to condemned by the sundown to make merry until the early the traffic. Church. This Includes certain versions hours.

was

re-

of the Holy Scriptures published by It was to St. James's Palace that the non-Catholics, and books of any kind King brought Anne Boleyn, whom he propagating heresy and achian; under first married secretly. There for two Great interest has been aroused this heading the Book of Common months before his official wedding the by the Prayer was banned in 1714.

announcement of the dia- happy couple lived in privacy and bliss, covery of prehistoric human Cardinal Merry del Val denies that it was from St. James's Palace that he maine near Peking. It is expected the Roman Curia has ever sent his Anna to be beheaded on Tower that the finds will provide almost prevented Catholics

read-Hill. It is said that he never entered complete formation about the most from ing the Bible, Ho Bays!

aft the Palace afterwards, which is per primitive types of human being only after the abuses of thehaps the only act of practical sentiment heretics, especially the Waldensians; ever performed by that strange

known. Albigenses, and Wickliftes, and of monarch. Over the mouth-piece is still Protestants in general (who en the monogram of Henry and Anne deavoured by sacrilegious mutilations entwined in a lovers' knot. and arbitrary interpretations to find in Mary I turned it into the official the Bible a aupport denied them by Royal Palace, and it was there she died history) that Pepos and Councils were in loneliness, deserted by her husband obliged to regulate and sometimes ta fand friends. Elizabeth used the Palace prevent the divulgation of the Bible in only for official purposes, and seldom the vulgar tongue."

lived in it It was from St. James's Palace that Charles I was taken

Nietzsche and Tolstoy'

It is not generally known that books one cold, frosty morning to meet his are only examined by the Holy Office fate on the scaffold at Westminster, when they are expressly brought to the and it was in the Palace of St. James notice of the tribunal. This accounts that Jarnes, known to England as the

the fact that authors such as Old Pretender, was born. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Tolstoy,

for

Hegel, and Carducel are not found on

Once a Prison

Cromwell turned the Royal residence

the black list, and that the number of into a Stato prison and destroyed proscribed writers-about 5,000 is much of its interior beauty, Charles comparatively small. Sometimes an II, refurnished it and it again became

author's life work is condemned whole- a Royal Palace. At that time the park sale, as the case of Maeterlinck, and ornamental gardens were finished; The fabulae amatoriae" of George in the vicinity, where is now Pall Mall, Sand, Dumas (pero et fls), Zola, Charles ballt t house for Nell Anatole France, and Guido da Verona, Gwynne. Italy's best seller, are also totally ban. aod.

The Palaco, built as a peace resort One of the latest decrees, in for Henry VIII., had now become the 1928, a fresh and sweeping con-centre of feasting, Junkoting, and plen- demnation of all D'Annunzio's works, sure of the Stuarts and their entour as fidei et modum offensivae. This age. Never were such follies and in- coincided with the announcement of a consequences known. But in December, special national edition of the poet's 1688, James II. fied as a banished and works, published under the aegis of the discredited King, and with him went Fascist Government. Many of the best the merry laughter of his dynasty. writers of the Italian Risorgimento are William of Orange took possession on the Index for all or part of their under the protection of a Dutch Guard, Work.

and from that time St. James's Palace Among British standard works in settled down to dull respectability. the Index are the following: Sir

Anne used it as her deial residence, Thomas Browne's "Religio Medici" and three Georges lived there in gloomy (decree dated 1045); Richardson's middle-class pomposity. But this time "Pamela," in spite of. Its sub-title, the districts of Westminster and St. "Virtzo Rewarded;" Laurence James were covered with streets and Sternes. "Sentimental Journey houses, and George III. approached his Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" and Palace carried in a sedan chair down Hallam's historical works. Few St. James's-street, then no longer women writers are on the Index, prob-country road. From the windows of ably because the bulk of condemnations their clubs the candies of the day belong to the period, preceding the eagerly watched for this imposing daily latter half of the nineteenth century, outing

when authoresses were neither so Queen Victoria was the last Sover tamerous nor so daring as they are sign to be present and proclaimed from to-day, Lady Morgan's "Journal of a the gates of the Palace. It is still used Residence in Italy," however, was ban- for loves and official ceremonies. ned in 1822.

A distinction is made in the Index Further revelations of a great between bocks wholly prohibited ("In drug traffic conspiracy have boon dex, Expurgatorfus") and those only made from Cairo Rumanians have prohibited until bestain offensive pass been smuggling drugs in large

ges have been changed, or removed quantities Into Egypt ("Index Prohibitorius) In the for mer case. the works are marked by a

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