ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 45, 25 November 1925, Page 15

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Unconvbrsant.— Brisbane and New South, Wales have large percentages of Cath-

dies. New York and San Francisco are also very Catholic, and there is plenty of employment there. . Inquirer wants the name of the author of Geraldine. We read it years ago in Tivoli but have not seen it since. If we mad© an attempt to guess the author’s name we should say it was Constance Sherwood, but our memory is' not good. Critic. —“Quick” is a fine old English word, meaning “live.” Thus, the quick and the dead means the living and the dead. The word ought to be revived in those days when, only athletes escape being killed by motorists. C.F. —Antonio was written by Ernest Oldmeadow, the present editor of the London, Tablet. You can get the novel, which is a very good one, from our Manager. Statistics. — is impossible to tell the number of pilgrims attending Rome for the Holy Year. First, because the year is not over, and secondly because we have nothing to guide us except the railway returns up to May 15. It is stated that 270,000 pilgrims travelled by train up to then. As the reports of revolution in British papers kept pilgrims away during

the early part of the year, we might take these figures as representing the number that poured into the city from the end of March. Reader (Taranaki).We cannot advise you where to get a second-hand motor bicycle. Our advice would be DON’T! Maybe a young puppy would do you instead. We can tell you where to steal one, and will sleep better if you Oblige us. You won’t need alarm clocks when you get him. Student. —Since the decree of May, 1918, the impediment does not apply to marriages between baptised non-Catholics and pagans. The New Code lays down that the sponsor at Baptism contracts spiritual relationship with the baptised person only. The opinion of experts is that the Antioch Chalice is not older than the fourth century. Lover of Irish Song. We have only books with the music as well as the words. And the, words are in Gaelic. We could order for you any book of the kind you require.