People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 22, 2 June 1904, Page 10

People We Hear About

The ' Catholic Times ' understands that the llight Rev. Bishop Stanley will leave Westminster shortly ajid take up his residence permanently in Rome. ' Ihe sixth volume of Mr. Justin M'Carthy's ' History ot Our Own Times " is not yet completed, says the ' Dailj News,' an* probably will not be published till next year. But his autobiographical woik, ' The .story ot an Irishman, 1 will be ready ni the autumn The • History o f Qiir Own Times ' .still holds first place as the most readable history of the Victorian era. General Sir Montagu Gerard, K.C.B , X. C.S.I , who has left lor Manchuria, was honored by the Ozar and C/anna with a special interview prior to his departure iroin the Russian capital. The General also had an interview with the Dowager-Empress of Russia during his stay m St Petersburg The General is the broeher of FatheL Gcratd, S.J., the famous Jesuit publicist. Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid and, as some style him, de jure King of Spain, is just 56 years old He is the duect descendant of Charles, brother of Ferdinand VII , who died in 1833. According to Spanish laws of succession, Don Carlos would now be reigning had not Ferdinand abolished the Salic law in favor of his daughter l.sabello, grandmother of the roigmng Alfonso XIII In connection with the celebration of the Gregorian Ccntenaiy m Rome, the Rev 11. Marriott Bannioter, an Anglican clergyman, was chosen by the Pope to prepare the exhibition of \ atican Gregorian codices. Mr. Bannistei has been for several years one of the most diligent students ot l the Vatican Library, and is well known as an authority on litiugy and "sacred music. The -.equence m the Gregorian Mass which was. sung in St Peter 'a as one of the large number of sequences exhumed by him fiom the old MSS. of the Vatican Mr Richard Bourke, D.L , of Thornfields, Lisnagry, Count v Lm, eiick, who died the other day, m his ninetythud veai, was (says the ' Freeman's Journal ') well known in the last generation as an able and courteous Local Government Board Inspector lie supplied a link with an lustoiic past. His father, General Sir Richard Bourke, s distinguished Colonial Governor, who was offered, but declined, the Governor-Generals-hip of India and a Peerage, was Governor of Victoria at the time of the discovery of gold in Australia in the early fifho.s of the lust century and the rush for the goldliclds The fust gold nugget ever brought to light from Australian soil is. piescived as an lieu loom in the Bourke family, and is worn as an ornament on the head of a scarf p n. Ml William Ilarcotrt occupies so large a share of public interest and attention at the present moment that it may he molded that the large estate, Nunham Harcouit. outside Oxford, which has come into his possession by the death of a distant relative, has devolved upon him by a very tragic incident 1 1 is kin.sman, Mr Il.acoutt, the head of the Harcourt family, by who-e d".i tli \unhani Ilarcourt has become Sir William s nihei laixi, was, upwards of twenty yeais ago, engam d to be marned to a young lady of great beauty ai.d idle!lc\ t— -Miss Liddell, the daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, Oxfoid, one of the joint editors of Liddell ,1,11 d Scott's famous Greek Lexicon. The weddingday had been fixed, but within a few hours- from her marriage Miss I iddcll sickened and died. She is buried m o'ie of the chapels of Christ Church, Oxford, and lust above her crave there is a beautiful stained-glass window elected by her parents, in which there is an exquisite portrait of herself. Mr Aubrey Harcourt never man led, and the family estates have descended on Sir William Ihe Holy Week ceremonies at the Brompton Oratory led the ' Westminster Ga/ette " into some readable reminiscences of Father Bowden, the Superior —Father Sebastian Bowden, S-upenor of the Oratorian Fatheis, who piesided at the solemn office of Tenebiae which was sung in the presence of a crowded congregation at tie Biompton Oiatory recently, is an ex-officer of the Guaids Fattier Bcnvden is considered by many to be the finest Catholic pieacher in London. lie is the author of a ' (iuide to the Oratory,' a stiudy of Dante, and a work on ' The Religion of Shakespeare, 1 in which the evidence for the poet'fc membership of the Catholic ('lunch is nilly stated There is only one living linkbetween the first humble home of the Oratory in King William stieet Strand, and its magnificent habitation of to day next to the South Kensington Museum. This is Father Bowden, who was a young novice when Cardinal Newman's sermons drew all literary London to the disused whisky store in King William street, which the pioneer Oratorians transformed into a church.