The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-30
CATHOLICS NEVER
SO ENTERPR| RISING.
They Have Been Starting Con
crosses" in Every
Diocese.
RESULTS ARE ENCOURAGING
Their Religious Efforts Answer
Question, What Is Church.
Doing?"
RESULTS ARE ENCOURAGING
ny GEORGE DUFREsSE.


Paris, April 29.-What is the church
doing? Since the bishops dcnuncia-
ton of certain state school books.
nothing is heard Of 1t, unless the head
OF St Martin" be considered q church
question Tho fact is the Catholics of
France were never 80 cnterprlsing.
They have started Congresses" in
every diocese Church work. social
reform. labor questions, education.
clean papers-all is fish that
comes to the Catholic net. Bishop and
clergy are indefatigable in making
these congresses a success and the
results are said to be extremely en-
couraging. Artists, literary men, ora
tors. the gentry. tradesmen and work
ingmcn co-operae with n will. and
thus throughout France O movement
has been started that may put an end
to the supremacy of political anti
clericalism. Electoral reform, when
accomplished. Will stimulate the move
ment still further.
The practical spirit that Is abroad
is having more and more effect on
education. In the current Revue des
Deux Mondes" II. Emile Faguet, OF the
Academy. mourns the present position
of secondary education at the Sorbonne.
which. he says, is threatened on the
one hand by primary education. and
on the other by higher or professional
education. Education, for education's
sake. is in bad way, because It lends
to no practical issue. Science and
letters. unapplied to some professional
course merely glut the market with
unskilled learning. 1T is notorious
that the bachelor" is a helpless VIC
tim In the struggle for life. His aca-
demc training nts him only for semi
starvation. ..
The tendency is for boys to pro-
coed direct from the elementary
They become doctors. lawyers and
druggists. with only the. barest equip
ment of general knowledge Such
men, declares the eminent littera teur.
become skilled artisans In their differ
ent professions and nothing more
They have no taste In literature or in
the arts. This system Is part OF tho
product OF the times. 1t is undemo-
cratic to have classical distinction and
general culture The masses love the
"leveling down" process. and have no
sympathy with the intellectual aris-
tocracy. This Is the difficulty OF the
present day. NJ. Faguet would 80 re-
arrange the universities studies that
the undergraduate before proceeding
to ACQUIRE the theory of his future
profession, shall have undertaken
course in secondary education.
Count Isaac de Camondo, who died
a little over two weeks ago, has left
his entire art collection TO the Louvre.
with sum of 100000 to be spent on
Its installation. The sole condition at.
tached to the bequest is that the whole
collection shall be placed for nifty
years in one room. to he called tho
Camondo room. The Camondo collec-
tion Is both varied and valuable 1t
includes all sorts OF French works OF
the eighteenth century-tapestries
sculptures bronzes and pictures
among them being pastels By Perron-
neau. and an especially fine one by La
tour. There are also many splendid
bronzes of the Italian Renaissance, two
remarkable Delacroix and two Corots,
and finally number of representatives
and superb pictures OF contemporary
French art. These include a fine set
offDegas's canvases. hftcen or twenty
first-cass Claude AToncts. several fine
Sisleys and few good NIancts
NJ. Durand Knel says that the late
count intended, had he lived. TO gather
together a collection of Rcnoirs.
Among his objects dart is the famous
Clock of the Three Graces" by Fail
comet, exhibited at the Smaller Pal