THIS WEEK'S ISSUE

New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1913, Page 35

THIS WEEK'S ISSUE

The League and its Methods—a grave public scandaL Page 33. Dean Fitchett’s ‘ Reply to Bishop Cleary ’ —a general review and criticism. Page 21. What is Sabotage ? —An instructive and weighty article on a very live subject. Page 45. Eucharistic Congress at —interesting and picturesque functions. Page 15. Impressions of America- Crisp and breezy interview from Father Bernard Vaughan. Page 11. Catholic Federation— at Wellington and Christchurch. Page 27.

A Catholic Poet’s Success u Some astonishing facts are given about the sales of Francis Thompson’s great poem, ‘ The; Hound of Heaven,’ His publishers write to the Bookseller about a statement that Masefield’s ‘ Everlasting Mercy was the most widely circulated poem of these days. ‘ Splendid as Mr. Masefield’s success has been, we doubt if it nears the fifty thousand of “The Hound of Heaven,” thirty thousand of which have been sold in the last two years. Moreover, “The Hound” is one of the chief attractions of Thompson’s Selected Poems, which are now in their twentieth thousand. Perhaps your readers will be interested to know that Thompson was.at one time a collector for a West End,bookshop! The story of this, and of many another strange avocation _ for a mystical poet, will be found in the Life of Francis Thompson, by Mr. Everard Meynell, which is now in the printers’ hands.’