2.J2. Father Angelo's )History [1909 



nights. He tells me his father and mother were mystics who looked 

 for a restoration of a theocracy in Europe under the Pope and a Cath- 

 olic king in France. They wished all their six children to become 

 monks and nuns, and all six did so. He himself joined the Capuchins 

 before he was fifteen, and made his vows without knowing anything, if 

 I understand him rightly, of the relations of the sexes. For that reason 

 Father Tyrrell was of opinion that De Bary's vow of chastity did not 

 bind him, and that he was free to marry if he chose. He showed me 

 a number of Tyrrell's letters, one of which bore on this point. At 

 twenty-one he was made to sign a disentailing deed of the family prop- 

 erty which he had not read or understood the meaning of. He is 

 now about forty, and acts as private chaplain to the Shaftesburys at 

 St. Giles,' where I met him in the summer,, I drove him to-day to 

 Storrington, where we had tea with Miss Petre, and visited Tyrrell's 

 grave with her. It is kept decked with flowers, and there were two 

 persons, a man and a woman, kneeling there and praying. This is Miss 

 Petre's pious work. De Bary and I knelt also. There is yet no 

 stone placed. 



De Bary is an interesting man, and on his own subjects is a good, 

 though rather vague, talker. He is enthusiastic about the rights of the 

 weak races of mankind, and is a good Nationalist in Ireland of the 

 Horace Plunkett school. He was a member of the Roger Bacon Soci- 

 ety, which had its meetings at Holmwood, with several other Capuchins. 

 He has a high opinion of Gibson as entirely devoted to Sinn Fein. 

 Gibson's wife was sympathetic to a certain point, but, as a Catholic 

 complained that he adopted ' all the heresies.' Mivart was one of the 

 most notable of their members. It was Coventry Patmore who started 

 the idea of the identity of Aphrodite and the Virgin Mary, which Mivart 

 afterwards brought forward in one of his ' Nineteenth Century ' articles. 

 Jesus Christ, Mivart said, was first worshipped as identical with ^Escu- 

 lapius. De Bary is a great believer in Bishop Gore and his Christian 

 Socialism, and he assures me that this section of the English Church is 

 sound about India and the Zulus and other native questions in the 

 British Empire. De Bary was a year earning his own living in America, 

 where he says things are far worse than in England. He has been 

 fortunate in getting into harbour at St. Giles'. 



" 24th Sept. — Newbuildings. The Geneva Congress has been a suc- 

 cess. Osman Ghaleb writes enthusiastically of young Goumah, who 

 took the lead at the Egyptian meeting, speaking out well in answer 

 to Keir Hardie (who had made a half-hearted speech), and had car- 

 ried the Congress with him. They also carried an amendment omitting 

 the complimentary telegram to the Khedive. It has had its effect here 

 in England. The Budget debate, however, absorbs all English attention, 

 and much depends on its issue both for Egypt and for India. 



" Bernard Shaw writes tome:' We are in for a bad time in India I 



