The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-18
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national Union of Boston. Her subject.
strange to say. was THE Blessed
Among Women" describing to her au-
dience the place of the Blessed Virgin
in the Catholic Church. the grounds
for the Catholic devotion to her and
her influence on the elevation of wo-
manhood, on poetry. music and art.
The paper attracted wide attention for
the novelty of the attendant circum-
stances. Miss Conway is a member
of the executive council OF the New
England WOInan's PrEss Club and
chairman of the literary committee She
is also president of the WOman's Press
Association of Boston. a tireless work
err charming. woman. The friends
who know her best hold her in Very
dear affection.
She read a paper at the Press Con-
gress held in Chicago during the
Worlds Fair. Though too busy TO dc
light us. often Miss Conway sometimes
gives us a few lines of poetry. thriuiu-
and beautiful. She is very blessed i'm
deedful life incapable of any but the
highest and noblest ideals. This is an
extract from her poem Grown ana
Palm Branch:
Folded in raiment fair and white
Blossoms about her, dewy and bright
Palm branch laid on her peaceful breast
Sweet. on. sweet is the maiden's rest.
But the loving watchers mourn and weep.
For this is death, though it seeme1h sleep.
She is done with earth life-the strange
She hath seen the face Of the King in His
She hath drunk of the River whose wave
is Balm
And the Virgins crown and the yictorz
Are hers forever-No fear of pain
On. who would call her to earth again
And thus we muse of the captive freed.
And thus would comfort the hearts that
bleed.
The hearts sore wounded and nigh to
break,
While they look on that sleep SO fair to
see,
And moan. All! yes. it is well with thee:
But, oh! beloved, if thou could wake
MISS LOUISE IMOGEN Quincy
was born in Roxbury Mass. Jan :.
1861, and made her studies at the Notra
Dame Academy of Roxbury and lat
terly at the Convent of the Sacred
Heart, "Elmhurst," Providence, R l..
where she graduated in 1879. She is
one of the youngest and brightest writ
ers engaged in current literary work
Her father was one of the most gall
liant soldiers that Massachusetts sent
to the Civil War. As a little child she
shared her fathers life in camp. and
one of the most charming essays was
written on that episode. Her mother
was widowed when she was still q
child. Miss Quincy has been carefully
trained and brings to literary work
more solid and Taried than
belong to most young women. She is
beautiful in face, 1.-THE and straight in
figure, and is an object of admiration
in the suburbs Of Boston, her home
being in Auburndale. where she is seen
on the turnpike and in the woods like
a young Diana. accompanied by
great st. Bernard dog. the gift of one
Of her fathers friends. She now hunts.
skates and uses a bicycle with equal
grace.
Her first volume Of poems attracted
attention Immediately by the distinct
note of literary style that character
zed them. Her work showed from the
beginning a polish, but sometimes
seems a little overdone. 1t is believed
Oy competent critics that there is no
possesses the instinct of style in equal
legree.
Miss Guiney'S prose volume was en-
titled Goose Quill Papers; her first
1olume of verse is known as Songs at
he Start" She is a frequent con-
ributOr to the Atlantic Monthly and
he Catholic World the Century Maya
work commands the highest price She
spent a year abroad. living in the sub
lrbs of London most of the time and
studying the haunts of the fathers Of
English poetry, so that she was able
asst year to produce a series of papers
superior in appreciation. insight and
to any literary work of that
haracter that has been produced for
ears in this country.
She is a eyOG1 Latin scholar fluent in
french and Italian, and an accom-
lished musician.
With youth. energy and industry. a
oble character and an attractive per-
onality. with an honorable place
chieved in letters while her resources
re still but half developed. it is not
ash to predict within the next decade
hat Louise Imogen Quincy will make
Or herself great and enduring name
] English literature.
In our own Garden City we have tai
Mt to boast of in the we'll known
ELIZA ALLEN STARR.
Miss Starr was born in Deerfield,
lass, in 1924. The founder of the fam
y, DR.. Comfort Starr, was an English
ian, and came to Cambridge in 1884.
lis son, Rev. Comfort Starr. D. D..
as graduated from H rya d u diversity
/ 1647. and was one of the five fell
Tvs named in the college charter, dat
/ May 10, 1850.
On the maternal side Miss Starr is
escended from ''Allers of the Bars
of England, distinguished in
le colonial history of Deerfield from
lie time of King Philips war. The do
este atmosphere Miss Starr breathed
ON childhood was of that raTer sort
which heart and mind alike develop
|, vigorously stimulated by the tender
It family affection. union of intelleC-
al interests and a noble ideal of So
al obligations. while the lore of and
miliarity with nature so noticeable
her poems and her highly cultivated
'tistic sense found their first discip-
le in the woods and wales. the pictur-
que surroundings Of and traditions
her New England birthplace.
While still in early womanhoOd, she
used from the scholarly influences of
e home circle, to enjoy all that was
st in Boston culture, and TO profit
so by the intellectual resources Of
where her cousin, George
lien. LII. D., was professor of Greek
Id Latin in the University of Penn
lvania. In the latter city Miss Starr
as privileged to number among her
ost intimate friends the illustrious
Kendrick. most widely
lOwn. perhaps through his transla-
ms of the Holy Scriptures. With his
coura cement, several of her early
ems eound their way into print. and
e influence of the same learned prel-
e introduced her to those deeper stu
rs which eventually led her into the
-thOlic church. When, some years
ter, the family settled in the West,
SIS Starr while continuing always her
rely literary pursuits, began the spe-
Il art work with which her name is
form and execution entirely unique.
1867 Miss Starr published volume
poems edited by Professor Allen.