Answers to Correspondents

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 43, 15 October 1924, Page 25

Answers to Correspondents

B. B. (Auckland). thanks for your message . which we appreciated much. -■ " ' Inquirer.—There is no Catholic hospital in .New Zealand ■■■■■■; wherein probationers may qualify. Reader.—The Germans fired shrapnel at the tower of Rheims Cathedral because the French were using it for military purposes. The chief damage done to the ... church was due to a fire that started from burning straw within the building. Evidence of that is to be found in Ward Price's letters to the Times. He ; was .. on "the spot and he was also honest. Had the Germans wished to bombard it, ask yourself as „an intelligent man how long it would have lasted. They were near enough and it is not generally considered that they had anything to learn about shooting. . Anything else you want to know? . H.P.—lbanez is a mediocre Spanish novelist who has been much boomed and far over-rated in England and the United States. The Spaniards do not think much of him and they smile at foreign praises of his books. He is a second-rater, to put him as high as possible.' But as the best English novelists now living are all more or less below second-class it is no wonder that 'lbanez is a star among them. You will not find a book of his worth reading, or worth the money. -