People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 31 October 1912, Page 41

People We Hear About

. Sir Edward Elgar’s latest composition, which is to be performed at the Birmingham Musical Festival, is entitled, ‘We are the Music-Makers.’ . The Cardinals and Bishops attending the Eucharistic Congress were, . for the most part, entertained by members of the Austrian Royal Family and nobles. Cardinal Logue was the guest of Prince Kinsky, while Prince Liechtenstein entertained Cardinal Bourne. Abbot Gasquet, 0.5.8., stayed with Count Berchtold, and Bishop Chisholm of Aberdeen received hospitality at the residence of Count Harrach. One of the three grand Gold Medals of this year’s Berlin Salon, the Gross-Berliner Kunstausstellung, which corresponds to the Royal Academy, has been awarded to Mr. Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. Mr. Bfangwyn’s etchings are found to-day in the most important collections on the Continent and in several public galleries in this country. Mr. Brangwyn was born at Bruges, and is now in his 46th year. Mr. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, one of the best-known Catholic laymen in England, has written a book which will be published presently, entitled The Land War in Ireland . Mr. Blunt knows something of the subject. He was arrested and imprisoned during the Coercion regime in Ireland when he went there to see things for himself first hand. A great friend of Arabi Pasha and of the native Egyptians in their struggle with foreign domination, he -is one of the best living authorities on Egyptian affairs. He has two other claims to celebrity. He is noted as a breeder of Arab horses, and he is the husband of a lady who is the descendant of Byron— Lady Anne Blunt. ‘ Richard Delian,’ who scored such a distinct success with The Dop Doctor, has achieved an even greater success with the novel entitled Between Two Thieves, which has just been published by Mr. William Heinemann (says the Catholic Herald). The critics are unanimous in its praise, and it has already been hailed as the book of the season. It is an open secret that the name Richard Delian is a pseudonym covering the identity of Miss Clotilde Graves, who has already under her own name achieved fame as novelist,, dramatist, and journalist. Miss Graves, who is a native of Buttevant, County Cork, is a daughter of the late Major W. IT. Graves, of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment, and a great-granddaughter of the Very Rev. Thomas Graves, D.D., Dean of Ardfert and Connor, A convert to Catholicity, Miss Graves does not hide her profession of faith under a bushel, and perhaps the most striking thing in her new novel is the passionate attachment of the writer to the Catholic Church. There are few more popular members of the Irish Party than Mr. William H. K. Redmond, the brother of the Irish leader. He is known and beloved not only by his countrymen in Ireland and Great Britain (says the Freeman’s Journal), but by the Irish exiles in America, Australia, and New Zealand. The warm place which ‘ Willie Redmond holds' in the affections of his race has been deservedly won by loyal and earnest labor in-the service of his country. He was early in the fighting ranks. He was elected M.P. for Wexford so far back as 1882, when he was only 21 years of age. In 1885 he carried the National banner to victory in North Fermanagh, which he continued to represent till 1892. ■ In that year he was elected for East Clare, and has continued member for the Banner County for the past twenty years. He has been imprisoned in Kilmainham and Wexford as the penalty for his fidelity to the National Cause. He has several times visited Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, and has written among other contributions to literature, some interesting works dealing with his experiences in Australia, He went to represent the Irish Party at the great Biennial Convention of the Irish League of America, which opened at Philadelphia on September 23. •