o various periodicals. She is the author of many poems that will
live. She died in 1889.

COWPER, WILLIAM, is one of the most eminent and popular of all
English poets. He was born in the year 1731. His mother dying when he
was only six years old, the child was sent away from home to boarding
school, where he suffered so much from the cruelty of a bigger boy that
he was obliged to leave that school for another. At the completion of
his college course he expressed regrets that his education was not
received in a school where he could be taught his duty to God. "I have
been graduated," he writes, "but I understand neither the law nor the
gospel." His longest poem is "The Task," upon which his reputation as a
poet chiefly depends. He died in the year 1800.

DICKENS, CHARLES, one of the greatest and most popular of the
novelists of England, was born in 1812. By hard, persistent work he
raised himself from obscurity and poverty to fame and fortune. After
only two years of schooling he was obliged to go to work. His first job
was pasting labels on blacking-pots, for which he received twenty-five
cents a day! He next became office boy in a lawyer's office, and then
reporter for a London daily paper. He learned shorthand by himself from
a book he found in a public reading-room. In 1841, and again in 1867, he
lectured in America. He died suddenly in 1870, and is buried in
Westminster Abbey.

DONNELLY, ELEANOR CECILIA, began to write verses when she was but
eight years old. Her early education was directed by her mother, a
gifted and accomplished lady. Her pen has ever been devoted to the cause
of Catholic truth and the elevation of Catholic literature. Besides
hundreds of charming stories and essays, she has published several
volumes of poems. Her writings on sacred subjects display a strong,
intelligent faith, and a tender piety. She is a writer whose pathos,
originality, grace of diction, sweetness of rhythm, purity of sentiment,
and sublimity of thought entitle her to rank among the first of our
American poets. Miss Donnelly has lived all her life in her native city
of Philadelphia, where she is the center of a cultured circle of
admiring friends, and where she edifies all by the practice of every
Christian virtue and by a life of devotedness to the honor and glory of
Almighty God.

GOULD, HANNAH F., an American poetess, has written many pleasant
poems for c