People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 11 January 1912, Page 37

People We Hear About

Very Rev. Canon P. A. Sheehan, of Doneraile, County Cork, Ireland, whose new romance of the French" Revolution, bearing the interesting title V of The Queen's Fillet, promises to be one of the most successful of his various books, is a hearty young man at sixty, whose chief recreation is gardening. Despite his onerous parochial duties as Canon of Cloy he finds time to write stories, essays, and poems which have an international sale. According to the London Bookman, My New Curate ran through twenty editions in the United States. This wasMmmediately followed by Luke Delmege, which was promptly translated into all the European languages and ran through five editions in Germany alone. ■'.""'

One of the traits which endear the Duke of Norfolk to the people of Sheffield is his unconventionality (writes the Yorkshire Daily Observer). ' The utter absence of any attitude of aloofness is particularly marked when he is amongst his|esoecial friends, the Catholics of the city. Then the Earl Marshal of England moves about as freely; and with less fuss than many a provincial Mayor. He was in Sheffield recently entertaining Cardinal Logue,- the Irish Primate, who had come over to dedicate a new tower at St. Vincent's Church, and he attended a conversazione held in honor of the Cardinal in the church hall, a building situated in the heart of Sheffield's slums. Ah observer could not help contrasting this little room where the Duke was making himself the life and soul of a small group of acquaintances with the splendors amid which he so lately moved as master of the Coronation ceremonies. One could imagine that his energy and direct methods were a revelation to the officials who were under his orders during the busy months that preceded the ceremony in Westminster Abbey.