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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
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GUTENBERG BIBLE
First Ever Printed, For Sale
In Germany.
Leipzig.—The Leipzig copy of the
famous Gutenberg Bible lias been
placed on the market. It is one
of the eight surviving copies of the
so-called “forty-two line” on parch
ment. of which about thirty are be
lieved to have been printed as the
first products of the Gutenberg
press six hundred years ago. One
copy was sold to an American col
lector in 1911 for ^500,000 hut the
Bible that will go on sale now is
admittedly the finest example ex
tant of the line and is considered
beyond appraisal the other copies
being more or less damaged or in
complete.
The Leipzig copy was presented to
the Saxon state many years ago by
a Dresden collector, and the title
is vested in the Leipzig Museum of
Books and Manuscripts. The
museum is now so hard hit by Ger
many’s financial calamity that it
proposes to sell the Bible to raise
money to continue its existence. A
score of German art lovers includ
ing Max Leibermann and Lovis Cor
inth are trying to save the manu
script for Germany by raising a
fund through the sale of their own
works and through appeals to
wealthy Germans.
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Rome.—At .the .conclusion of a
private audience given by His Holi
ness to Mr. Pierpont Morgan and
Professor Henry llyvernat of the
Catholic University of America, at
which the American financier pre
sented to Pope Pius the first volume
of the famous Coptic manuscripts,
I had a long interview with the Very
Rev. Ilr. Tyvernat in which he dis
cussed the finding of the manu
scripts and the work done by the
Morgans, father and son, in publish
ing them in photographic edition.
‘The discovery of the manuscripts
was made some twelve years ago,”
said Dr. Hyvernat. “Some Arabs of
Upper Egypt, while sifting the sand
in search of lime products which
they use ns fertilizer, came across
a small case. On opening it they
found a quantity of objects arrang
ed in rows which they took for
bricks. On examination these turn
ed out to he old parchment volumes.
So ignorant were the arabs of the
value of these volumes that they
were on the point of throwing them
away when on second thought, they
decided to try to sell them to some
FREE STATE CHILDREN
MUST ATTEND SCHOOL
The Papal Audience.
John Pierpont Morgan and Henry
Hyvernat were received by His Holi
ness on Thursday morning, October
26, at 11 o’clock.
Upon the big table in the private
Library of His Holiness was placed
the first volume of the copy of the
manuscripts presented to the Pope,
the first volume only, because the
others were yet to be bound. The
binding is in tan leather and linen
of the same color with simple deco
rations and gift inscription on the
back of the volume. The Papal
Coat of Arms, also in gold, is print
ed on the outside front cover and
there is another white silk cover bet
ter to protect the volume.
Pius XI greeted his two visitors
with extreme cordiality. Prof Hy
vernat told me: “Wc found him as
kind, as simple, as if he were merely
the Vatican Librarian, with his usual
perfect calmness of manner, as I
had known him, and as when I con
versed so often with him during his
daily work.”
The audience lasted half an hour
and was as interesting as could he
Dublin.—In the primary schools of
Ireland the attendance of pupils is
deplorably irregular. It is estimated
that 270,000 children who should be
in school remain at home every day.
The subject was brought forward
in the Free Stale Parliament by a
Deputy who had been a teacher. On
his motion the House approved a
resolution to the effect that the
Education Code should be amended
so as to make school attendance
compulsory throughout the Free
State for children between the ages
of 6 and 14.
Professor Magennis, National Uni
versity, suggested that the number
of schools should be reduced and
that large, central, well-equipped
schools should be established. Each
day a motor bus could he sent
out to collect the children and de
liver them dry-shod and happy, and
if necessary, the State should pro
vide breakfast for them before the
school hour. That would be a cheap
er system, he said, than providing
hospitals and workhouses and col
lecting statistics of death from
tuberculosis.
NEW ENGLISH REGIME
SATISFIES CATHOLICS
But It Will Not Treat Them
As Well As Lloyd George
Coalitionists.
COLLEGE CLUBS
Catholics In Secular Institu
tions Organizing.
of the many foreigners who scout «"? *» ?4?ich a generous donor and
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Egypt in search of objects of anti
quity. And in fact the manuscripts
were bought by a merchant and tak
en by him to Paris. He had no
idea of the value of his purchase.
“At that nine 1 was passing
through the French capital on my
way from Home to London, and the
owners of the manuscripts desired
to have my opinion as to their
worth. It was only after much
urging that I consented to examine
them, for I did not imagine that
they were of any great scientific
value. But when at last 1 went to
inspect them, I had scarcely looked
at them, when I understood their
unusual worth.
“I gave the owners a brief state
ment as to the origin, the contents
and the value of the magnificent
collection, and the volumes were of
fered for sale to J. Pierpont Morgan
for his library. The generous
American relying on my opinion
bought them, becoming thus a true
patron of science, because had he
not made the purchase, the volumes
would have been put up and dis
persed through the world.”
The edition is in 57 volumes, the
first 56 corresponding to the 56
manuscripts and the last containing
the general index. Each volume has
of course its own index.
Each page is photographed exact
ly the size of the original, therefore
the manuscripts arc not of the same
dimension, hut are like the original.
These photographed pages number
altogether 7428. There are only
twelve copies which are not the
phototypic reproduction of the pho
tographs, as usually happens, but are
all and singly original photographs,
so that for reading and consulting
purposes, they show no difference
from the originals.
Each volume hears as frontispiece
the following inscription:
“Bibliothecae Pierpont Morgan,
Codices Coptici, photographice ex-
pregsi.
“Membranas reficiendas enraver-
unt Praesideg Bibliothecae Vatica-
nae admentibus Summig Pontificibus
Plo X, Benedict XV, Pio XI
. .“Codicis ordinavit, tabulas omnes
photographicas membrane contulit,
lituloM adposuit, indices digessit
Henricus Hyvernat, S. Theoligae,
doctor, in Universitate Catholica
Americae litterarum orientalium an
tecessor.”
This is the translation of the
above:
“Coptic manuscripts of the Lib
rary of Pierpont Morgan photogra
phically reproduced.
“The Prefects of the Vatican Li
brary directed the restoring of the
pages, with the consent of the Su
preme Pontiffs, Pius X, Benedict XV,
Pius XI.
“Henry Hyvernat, D. D., Professor
of Oriental Letters in the Catholic
University of America, arranged the
manuscripts, compared all the pho
tographic plates with the parch
ments, wrote the titles and compiled
the indexes.”
The first copy of this magnificent
adition which marks an epoch in the
history of Oriental literature, rear
ranged by the desire of Pierpont
Morgan senior and faithfully exe
cuted by his son, has been offered
ns a gift to the Holy Father. The
second will be given to the Library
of the Catholic University of Amer
ica. The other copies will he of
fered as a gift to the principal libra
ries of Uic world.
an illustrious scientist were face to
face with a Pope who was also a
scientist universally known, who had
spent all his life in literary and his
toric pursuits, to honor whicli the
two callers offered the first fruit
of a great undertaking.
After Pius XI had thanked Mr.
Morgan for the gift of the unique
edition, with which the names of the
Vatican Library and of the Pope
would always he linked, His Holiness
examined the volume in detail, re
calling circumstances of the re
storation which he had witnessed
while attached to the Vatican Li
brary and discussing technicalities
of the manner of restoring and pre
serving manuscripts. Thus passed a
memorable half hour which the Holy
Father would have prolonged had
not the anterooms and halls been
full of people waiting for audiences.
Pius XI parted with the welcome
callers with great cordiality, giving
to Pierpont Morgan the gold medal
of the first year of his Pontificate
and two silver ones to Professor
Hyvernat.
Philadelphia—Three -new organi
zations were admitted to member
ship in the Pennsylvania province
of the Federation of College Cath-
olic clubs held here last week. They
represent groups of Catholic stu
dents at Lafayette College, the Uni
versity of Virginia and the Univer
sity of Texas. .
Twenty-five delegates, represent
ing ten colleges or universities at-
altcnded the meeting, held in the
Newman Club. The meeting was
addressed hv Homer B. Sullivan,
Hugh S. Taylor, of Princeton; Prof.
William M. Hussie, of Wharton
School; John J. Farren, of Philadel
phia; Richard T. McSorlcy, of Phila
delphia; Frank M. Smith, of the
University of Pennsylvania and the
Ttev. John W. Keogh, national chap
lain of the Federation of College
Catholic clubs.
John J. Cabray, a leader of the
Laymen’s Retreat Movement of Phil
adelphia, urged upon the students
the advisability of making week
end retreats, offering them the hos
pitality of St. Josephs-in-the-Hills.
Malvern.
CATHOLIC HEADS IRISH
PHYSICIANS’ SOCIETY
Dublin.—Dr. M. F. Cox, a Catholic
and one of the most eminent physi
cians in Dublin, has been elected
President of the College of Physi
cians in Ireland. He is senior phy
sician to St. Vincent’s Hospital. His
colleagues in that hospital, to sign
alize the event, presented him with
a beautiful replica of the Ardagh
chalice. Among those present at
the complimentary luncheon at
which the presentation was made,
was Mr. John Dillon, leader of the
former Irish Parliamentary Party.
Mr. Dillon became qualified as a
doctor but never practised.
In the course of a handsome tri
bute to the new President of the
College of Physicians, Mr. Dillon ob
served that Dr. Cox had steered a
straight and honest course through
life. His reward was that there
was not in the medical profession
today a man who was more beloved
by the people of Dublin.
Dr. Cox is well known to literary
and political Americans of the old
er school. Tile British Government
made him a Privy Councillor, but
he gave up the lio_or as a protest
against the Black-and-Tan regime.
LATIN IN SCHOOLS
Cleveland—To encourage the study
of Latin in the public high and ju
nior high schools of Cleveland the
Academy of Medicine of Cleveland
will award a medal or other suit
able token of merit costing up to
$100 to the pupil whose examination
papers are most meritorious.
London—How much the fact of a
Conservative Government being in
power will affect Catholic interests
remains to he seen. It certainly will
not show the same consideration for
the Catholic Church as Lloyd-
Gcorgc’s Coalition Government did,
and possibly no one in Catholic cir
cles expects it will, or although
there are a number of enlightened
and progressive men amongst the
younger Conservatives, it cannot be
forgotten that among the older men
of the Conservative party there arc
certain hoary bigots, who still have
their being in the intolerant at
mosphere of 1850, or thereabouts. It
is a little coterie of these hard-bit
ten sectaries that lias tried to put
pressure on the new premier to re
call the British legation to the Vat-
ivan.
It is hardly likely that the gov
ernment will fall in line witli this
proposal. On the other hand, there
is a certain significance in the fact
that the first, or almost the first
diplomatic action of the new govern
ment has been to replace the Cath
olic minister to the Holy Sec, Count
de Salis, with a Protestant diploma
ic representative, the Hon. T‘
philus Bussell.
The new minister is not, as might
be first supposed, connected with
the Irish Bussells, whose part in
Catholic affairs is so nobly sus
tained by the present Lord Justice
Bussell of the High Court. The Hon.
Thco Bussell is a son of the pres
ent Lord Ampthill, and is connect
ed with the family of the Duke of
Bedford, one of whose ancestors,
a Catholic, made a name for him
self under Henry VII as a success
ful gatherer of taxes.
These non-Catholic Bussells are,
however, not without connections
with the Papal Court, or it was
the first Lord Ampthill, at that time
Lord Odo Russell, who was the Brit
ish representative in Rome up to
about 1870, and he is said to have
been a close friend and adviser of
Pope Pius IX in those troublous
days, when even the person of the
Pontiff was threatened with insult-
it was through this first Lord Am-
phill that Queen Victoria offered
to the pope a home in the island
of Malta, where he might gather
about himself the Papal Court and
administer the Universal Church.
Happily, the queen’s offer was not
necessary of acceptation.
On the whole, while Catholics will
look for no favors, there is no rea
son why they should lose anything
which they already hold.
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STATUE OF ST. LOUIS
Paris.—The bishop of Le Puy has
placed in his cathedral a statue of
Saint Louis, King of France, which
was greatly admired in the Paris
Salon this year. The statue por
trays an incident in the life of
King Louis, who is clad in the cos
tume of a crusader, bearing on a
cushion the crown of thorns of Our
Lord.
In 1239 Saint I.ouis presented a
thorn from the true crown to the
Cathedral of Le Puy “because of the
respect and honor due to the Bless
ed Virgin.”
The sanctuary of Le Ihiy is one
of the most deeply venerated among
those which the faith of France has
dedicated to God, and thousands of
pilgrims visit it yearly. King Louis
visited it several times, especially
after his return from the Holy
Land,
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