Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 10, 8 March 1923, Page 21

Answers to Correspondents

To Correspondents.As the Editor is at present absent personal letters addressed to him at the office will not be attended to. "KiiiLERY." —Please give us the approximate date of the appearance of the poem. There is (in the absence of the Editor) nobody here good-tempered enough to search back five or six years for it unless you give some guidance. Of course he will do it when he returns. He delights in such wild-goose chases. In fact, since his eyes got bad, he is said to make novenas for people who ask him to do these things. Inquirer. have never seen the maiden name of Madame Curie published. If we are able to discover it wo will inform you later. Reader.—We recommend you to get America, The Month (London), Studies, the Catholic World, and also the new Catholic Truth, the first number of which has reached us recently. Some or all of the foregoing ought to be on the table of every Catholic library. They are almost as indispensable as the N.Z. Tablet. Original Genius. —Your story is suspiciously like one we found in the American Quarterly Review A schoolboy doing Horace rendered Dulce est desipere in loco, as "It is pleasant to disappear on an engine." When the master had done with him he was convinced he was right. D.G. (Wellington).—Letter received. You have not yet convinced us that your opinion matters more than that of the Irish Bishops. No doubt that is owing to our own stupidity. The Editor being more stupid than the rest of us would be even harder to convince that he ought to seek your advice as to the policy of the paper. Unfortunately he is absent At present and has left no address. . _ 4~W

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