BROTHERS IN FAME.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1228, 2 April 1914, Page 4

BROTHERS IN FAME.

Perplexed readers who kl e> vv not their “Whits Who" may be grateful to the Windsor Magazine" for explaining the problem of many Hensons. There are two groups of Henson 1 1 : <at hers. In otic family the eldest has mercifully left the name behind by becoming Lord (’liai nuond :A\.A. S. Henson is a u l iter on arts and cralU: and I'. K. Henson is inseparably connected with^Uu: <-I,use of Shakespearean drama. The second group, “three bachelor sons ot-llie late Archbishop Henson." includes K. F. Henson, (lie writer ol worldly novel-.; Robert Hugh Henson, a Very Rev. Monsignor and a writer of religious novels: and Arthur Christopher Bela-on, best known by bis essays, though within the last lew months he, 100, lias turned to Ihe willing of fiction. The two groups kindly grew famous separately —one family at Oxford and one at Cambridge; but even London still goes astray amongst the brothers and their works, an w lieu a wom.cn s elnb made delightful (speeches to K. F, Henson altout religions and historical novels, and only found out afterwards that- they had really been entertaining the author of "Dodo unaware. Other cases of broihers in_ distinction are cited by the “W indsor.’ '1 hero are four Haggards, who nil write hooks, besides serving the Empire in more strenuous ways. There arc Ridgeways who uro Bishops.—one brother ruling at Salisbury and the other at Chichester. Arthur and Gerald Balfour, besides having been each in turn Chief Secretary for Ireland, count high amongst remarkable examples of paralfel tMer.ts and temperaments.’ Both are golfers, both are absent-minded, and both have the same nervous agonies until a speech has got fa ill v “under way." But while Gerald is admittedly the finer scholar. Arthur may reflect (hat his brother never became Prime Minister, OJ two W oLetey brothers ami two Kitcheners, the world has heard. In each case one brother has rather obscured the merits of the other. The (hreo Foibes-Robertson- were more united. They all became actors and painters. Then Jean and Edouard He Reszko are both famous in music—though, contrary to Gaarse Ridley’s good old rule, it is the vuunger. and not. Ihe elder brother, who sings the lias?. Very great genius may ho sporadic, or, at most, a possible “(browback" to some remote forgotten ancestor. But talent- certainly runs in families, and the mere existence o( an elder brother who writes, acts, or otherwise distinguishes himself. may soon bo taken as a- clear sign that the rest are marked for fame.