otherhood, an organization whose purpose was the freedom of Ireland
from English rule. In 1863 he joined the English army in order to sow
the seeds of revolution among the soldiers. In 1866 he was arrested,
tried for treason, and sentenced to death. This was afterwards commuted
to twenty years' penal servitude. In 1867 he was transported to
Australia to serve out his sentence, whence he escaped in 1869, and made
his way to Philadelphia. He became editor of the Boston _Pilot_ in 1874.
He is the author of "Songs from the Southern Seas," "Songs, Legends and
Ballads," and of other works. He died in 1890. All through life the
voice and pen of Boyle O'Reilly were at the service of his Church, his
native land, and his adopted country. Kindness was the keynote of his
character. In 1896 Boston erected in his honor a magnificent memorial
monument.

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB, called the "Hoosier Poet," was born in
Indiana in the year 1852. In many of his poems there is a strong sense
of humor. What he writes comes from the heart and goes to the heart. He
has written much in dialect. His home is in Indianapolis.

RUSKIN, JOHN, one of the most famous of English authors, was born
in London in 1819, and educated at Oxford. He spent several years in
Italy in the study of art. He wrote many volumes of essays and lectures,
chiefly on matters connected with art and art criticism. In his writings
we find many beautiful pen-pictures of statues and fine buildings and
such things. His "Modern Painters," a treatise on art and nature,
established his reputation as the greatest art critic of England. He
died in 1900.

SANGSTER, MRS. MARGARET E., editor and poet, was born in New
Rochelle, N.Y., on the 22d of February, 1838, and educated in Vienna.
She has successfully edited such periodicals as _Hearth and Home,
Harpers' Young People, and Harpers' Bazaar,_ in which much of her prose
and poetry has appeared. She is at present (1909) the editor of _The
Woman's Home Companion._

SOUTHEY, ROBERT, an eminent English poet and author, was born in
the year 1774. He began to write verse at the age of ten. In 1792 he was
expelled from the Westminster School for writing an essay against
corporal punishment. He then entered one of the colleges of Oxford
University, where he became an intimate friend of Coleridge. While
residing at Lisbon he began a special study of Spanish and Portuguese
liter