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New Zealand Tablet, 8 December 1910, Page 2020

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Anaemic Revolutions This year's headlines; “ The New Regime in Norway.” “ The New Regime in Turkey.” “ The New Regime in Morocco.” “ The New Regime in Persia.” “ The New Regime in Korea.” “ The New Regime in Portugal.” And yet they say revolutions are not made with rosewater!’ says the London Star. Going to Palestine Anton Lang, the peasant of the Bavarian Highlands who took the part of Christ with such impressiveness in the Passion Play at Oberammergau, is going to Palestine. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Evening Standard, a number of Americans who attended the production of the Passion Play have subscribed the necessary amount. Lang is said to be full of enthusiasm, and states that he will be realising the dream of his life in seeing with his own eyes Bethlehem and Jerusalem. The Creator of 4 Mr. Dooley ’ Mr. Finley Peter Dunne has just issued yet another volume, entitled Mr. Dooley Says, which has, of course, been cordially welcomed. The Milwaukee Catholic Citizen, in its series of articles on 1 Who’s Who Among American Catholics,’ gives the following sketch of the creator of 4 Mr. Dooley’: — In the World’s Fair year notice began to be taken of some sketches running in the Chicago Evening Post, wherein one Mr. Dooley, represented to be an Irish saloon keeper, on the Archey road, discussed the manners and customs of his neighborhood. There was philosophy as well as humor in these sketches, and as they continued from month to month Chicago readers looked for them and enjoyed them. The author was Finley Peter Dunne. Born in Chicago July 10, 1867, a son of Peter and Ellen Dunne, he was educated in the Chicago public schools. In 1897 Mr. Dunne became the editor of the Chicago Journal, and in the following year he published the book which made him famous, Mr. Dooley in Fence and in War, with allusions to the then existing Spanish-American war. It is said that this book had a larger sale in London than in New York or Boston. Mr. Dunne’s fame was wafted back from England, where his peculiar style of humor seemed to have made a singular hit.’ * ‘ For the last ten years Mr. Dunne has been a great favorite of the periodicals. He has been quoted in Congress and in Parliament. He has published a dozen books' — Mr. Dooley’s Philosophy, Mr. Dooley’s Opinions, Mr. Dooley’s Observations, etc., ere. He married Margaret Abbott in 1902, and later be drifted to a larger field, New York, where he is to-day a literary personage. Mr. Dunne has given no evidences of great piety in his Dooley papers, although they evince an understanding of the Irishman’s respect for his Church. Mr. Dunne, we are advised, is a Catholic, and has a relative in the priesthood.’