People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 13 December 1906, Page 28

People We Hear About

Mr,^vduew Carnegie has started" a fund for old Sco tsnjpjV down, on -their luck'- -HeV.has;-' moved an old schoolmate.., from, a London , workhouse, providing »iS P r\, n*' WCek . Oil his , refcurl "*6 *° Ms native ' place. in all cases the beneficiaries must " return to , xhejr-,,- native places..'': -. - •;• -=, .:,. . ,~ . „.,.^,'. V/S 1 Stefano. Gatti,--. the -principal --shareholder in b-altis Restaurants;- died at Jus residence-^ Bedford §? Uai n'^^° n:a^ U V- 011 Ocfcober 12 - Early in "-the sixties Mi- Cratta and his brother laid the foundation of- the veiy successful restaurant- business, associated with their names at the -Adelaide Gallery in, the -Strand. The uauis are a Catholic, family, and have been amongst •the most- generous benefactors ' pi /Catholic charities As an actress Madame Ristori, whose death took . place recently (says the ' Catholic Times '), wa~s, without :;-, question, the greatest, tragedienne -of -the nineteenth cen*hS? % JVI I aS^ a w T an ,. she - an -Honor', to her sex. j Hex- death was most edifying. We learn from a pri--*ya,te_ source that so soon as- she knew 'there was no ' , 1 1O J% of - , h *\ recovery, she^ sen fc - for' the - parisW priest -pfv&ant kustachs', Ro.mc,-and /received; .-fwithedif 7ing piety, the last k Sacraments of the, Church The s Queen-Dowager _sent.-'a wreath and was represented ,«• and - '™ c .n. n . üm ,^ cr of flowers was .quite - extraordinary. '.The ' , Municipality and: aIL the .-officiaL .-world" of fe-Wnl 1 * ■ wy-iw y -i \f c P tf £? n h as - well: as" - the - members i>f "several ' in- -which 'the -illustrious actresswas interested.. ■ .- -• - i-- ' - • -. -^ -. - ' PiV,? h V- CC P Ullt de , Ramirez de. "Arellano; on 'whom Pope ' -S n - as - cp/^Pd Grand Commandership . of St. Gregory the Great, ' has, \ though a' "young man, , * pioved on several occasions his devotion to the Holy Ihe superb stained glass -window erected in St ■-James • Spanish Place' 1 (the -Spanish-- 1 national Church ■ in London) to the, memory of the Princess of Mihe* Astunas, was given, by the -Count-. Thought' Spaniard i: he.is 'intimately connected^ with England' ,and Scotland! fits- only, sister being married - "to "the Honorable Ruaidhn ,Btsline ,(son of ...Lord- Ersfcine)- who takes .- suclr an interest m^the -Catholic -Gaels of Scotland and .-has ]ust. compiled^- Gaelic prayer book, " besides' be- ., i»S engaged on another Catholic book. The Count's eldest' ■-brother is -married to a daughter -of the late Lord •..and Lady Henry Cholmondeley, and is^a firstT cousin of the great Marquis of Cholmondeley, Great Lord .Chamberlain of England. - : • • - 1?.1 _? . discount , Feilding, the eldest soji of the Earl of Denl-jgh, has just come of age, - atd '1 here were creat -rejoicings- on the family estates in North -Wales and -Warwickshire. 'He is the eldest of avfamily- of -c ten, . the youngest -of whom; a daughter, was horn "only five ¥i\M ag °' **«}• ha .s the King foxier godfather. "Lord ' ™ £ g < was P ducatc(J at th>fainous Oratory School * at lidgbaston, and at' Christ Church; -/Oxford.^The family recently, sustained a great bereavement by the death'of .Liopd -Denbigh. s youngest brother,. Monsignor BasiK FeiMmg, who was' drowned -through', the - upsetting of ■ ?vn™ Ca + n nic° c o n * he " :R s in T e - The reildi ngs ' claim descent : Ao*? . , the • 'po*" 1 * 53 ,; of Hapsburg, - and tt- was-- an- odd coincidence that Monsignor Feilding was - drowned" at"- , Rhemfelden. The ate Lord Denbigh, grandfather, of the _. piesent Lord Feildmg,. was a very "fervent -convert. It -was he who brought , the "Capuchins .to Pantasaph. An event of quite considerable in beiesV in the liter- . ary world of London this autumn will • be new novel from the pen. of Lucas Malet. * Lucas Malet ' is, of course, the pen-name under which- Mrs. ™ ry *.£ • r e S er Harrison has .elected to write. Like Jlrs. -Craigie and ' Miss AdeKne Sergeant, Mrs. Haxrison is a convert to Catholicism. Her conversion had, one imagines, of the^ romantic . about At • than ,those - of- -Jhe- two writers .mentioned,' for'she^-is the daughter o .the. late. Charles .Kingsley, than- whom in the middle^ of the last -century -the Church no bitterer or morQ - vituperative antagonist: Kingsley himself w a s and is, reckoned a novelist, of -no mean ability' though by reas O n_of his intense hate and misrepresentation of everything Catholic his works do not" greatly commeiid-^themselves/v. to „C atholics^ Yet to Kingsley we owe a debt of gratitude, for were it not Newman's great- '* Apologia;? u'WuTd2 r .probably never have been, written. That his daughter, therefore, j- should turn to the faithiuher- fatberFso hated' naturally caused some sensation, and at • the tirmf the mmds qf many Protestants were much exercised at the conversion :-oL- Lucas , Malet. - As- she V.has not given the -- »°?--\ a^ n ,- ? L^ n ? c - 19( &> .when^the^'' History o f Six • p « ar /- '~ 'appeared 1 , readers •of the" higher form of fiction are awaiting -with- -;an added interest the forthcoming "book,; . i v~\ v \ b