In January 1933, in a hurriedly written review, this paper described the latest novel by a fashionable young writer who had recently been received into the Catholic Church as a ‘disgrace’. So began a celebrated literary spat between the then editor and Evelyn Waugh A sudden attack on Evelyn Waugh was launched by The Tablet in January 1933, linked to the publication of his novel, Black Mischief the previous October. “Whether Mr Waugh still considers himself a Catholic, The Tablet  does not know,” said an anonymous column, identified with the editor, Ernest Oldmeadow. “We hereby state that his latest novel would be a disgrace to anybody professing the Catholic name.”What was the problem? The Tablet did not quite say, but it mentioned “coarsene