People

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 7 August 1902, Page 10

People

A brother of Mr. Arthur Lynch, M.P. for Galway, is a medical prac-< titioner resident in Melbourne.

According to a despatch from Stockholm, Sweden, Sigurd Ibsen, son of Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian poet an.d dramatist, has accepted the portfolio of state in M. Blehr'9 new Cabinet.

Mn. H'enny Clarke. M.P., "Father of the New South Wales Assembly,' celebrated tho SOtih anniversary *of) his birth Iho other day. iJis representation in the Assembly extends) over more than thirty years.

At a special meeting of the committee of the Irish Association Dista'|jt! of the) Institute, of, Jour'nalts.ts, held recently at College Green, Mr. P. A. M'H>Uig|h, M.vP.,was unani-r mously elected chairman for the ensuing year.

The policeman artist, A. T, Jones, of Leeds, England, has been informed by the Royal Academy authorities that they had retained his painting entitled ' Summer,' which represents a moorland ' scene withi sheep. He has been similarly successful at tho Academy on three pi-evious occasions.

Mr James Phelan, who has been three times Mayor of San Francisco, visited the House of Commons the other day, and had a conference of some duration witiii Mr J. Redmond, Mr. Dillon, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, and/ otiher members of the Irish Party. Says a London d,aily paper of Mr. T. Healy's speech in the House of Commons :— ' The speech wont on, holding the attention of a fully House — now blazing out into scorching scorn, and then forcing a laugh even from the bitterest opponent by rich and irresistible humor. I-Te left the impression that he aln ways leaves — that there is no ono like him in the House and no one equal to him in his own line.'

A volume of the poetry of the lute Mrs. Seumas MacManus (better known to her friends in Belfast and the Nationalist public generally as| Miss Anna Johnston, and who wrotq under the pen-name of Ethna Carberry) is on the eve of publication. The title of the book is ' The Four Winds ofl E;rinn/' a^id it wSll contafci poems which she had in recent years;

contiributed to such high-class peni-T odicals as ' Harper's Monthly,' tihs| ' Atlantic Monthly/ ' Ljipincott's Magazine/ the ' Bookman,' and thel ' Criterion/ as well as many whicfcl have become popular, and others written in the few months of her married life. Mrs;. MacManus was a Catholic. -Her father., the well* known Orange leader, Mr. William. Johnston, of Ballyk'ilb'eg, died a few weeks ago.

When Sydney Smith, Jeffrey, and Brougham founded the ' Edinburgh, Review,' just a hundred years ago,, Jeffrey' was afraid it would injuM him in his profession as an ad,vocaite, because to be a paid contributor to the press was considered deriow gatory to a gentleman. Six years! later the Benchers of Lincoln's Inn adopted a by-law excluding all persons who had written for the dailyj press from being called to the Bar. Upwards of 20 years afterwards the then Lord Chancellor offended hia supporters and provoked their reprehension by inviting the editor of thel ' Times 'to dinner ; .while to-dayj the King of Sweden feels himselfl complimented by the acceptance of an article from his pen on. the parti of the editor of the ' .National Review ' ; Mr. James Knowles baa half) the peerage and baronetage of ' thel United Kingdom inscribing, their/ names on the list of contributors to) tihe ' Nineteenth Century ' ; thef Queen of Rournania solicits Pierre, Loti tio furnish her with' an intnoh ductory chapter to a volume of short/ stonies she has just published ; and! our late Queen was a diligent worfcen in the fields of literature. Of course, (writes the London correspondent! of the ' Age '!) them hajve . $een mapn^, Royal authors from the days of King Albert— without going back to tho^e of Solomon — down to the time of Napoleon 111. ; and of these Hjorace. Walpole took the trouble to compile a catalogue ; but they were supposed! to conifer an honor upon literture by) writing, soaigs and ballads, like Richard II.; a treatise on the Seven Sins, like Henry VIII. ; a comedy,, like Edward VI. ; a comment on Plato, like Elizabeth ; or French ballads, like the great, great grandfather of our present Sovex*eign. Today royalties, as a rule, are more inclined to feel themselves honored! by associating themselves with the} profession of literature than to inia-i gine they can confer any lustre upon, it by the mere fact of its admitting, them to participate in its labors} and rewards. And tihe change is 1 sufficiently noteworthy to justify this passing remark.