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New Zealand Tablet, 12 August 1909, Page 1251

'N.Z. TABLET' PUBLICATIONS

A LEARNED ARCHBISHOP'S APPRECIATION

The following exceedingly kind appreciation of the N.Z. Tablet publications — especially An Impeached Nation arid Secular versus Beligious Education — has been received from the brilliant and scholarly Prelate who bears the pastoral staff of the Archdiocese of Hobart, the Most Rev. Dr. Delany : —

' My dear Dr. Cleary,

' Your exposition and defence of many points in Catholic and Irish history, and in the line of action adopted by the Church to meet the various . and pressing urgencies of contemporary life, stand conspicuous amidst the best and most brilliant achievements of our present-day advocates. I account your vindication or the Irish Catholic nation as not merely unanswerable, but, what is perhaps rarer, peculiarly persuasive. ' Your treatment of, the education difficulty, as .'t besets Catholic leaders, and bewilders not a few honest men who are not Catholics, is very opportune, and I augur happy results from its wide diffusion. In our situation a first need is the cultivation of that calm, unimpassioned frame of mind in approaching a subject so peculiarly apt to arouse temper, and the spirit in which the great organ * that put its columns so unreservedly at your disposal, likewise appraised your arguments, furnishes a pleasant example of the " sweet' reasonableness " which is the best_ harbinger of " peace with honor." For this precious*; achievement you deserve our lasting gratitude. . / Be Tl . lieve me to be, my dear Dr. Cleary,

' Yours very sincerely in Xt., * Patrick Dbiany,

'Archbishop of Hobart. 1 (The reader is referred to the notices with reference to these books which appear in our advertising columns.]