calls these “Wild Flowers sweet, their
  hues most delicate, their fragrance most agreeable.”  Mercedes has also
  enriched the columns of The Missionary and other publications with
  several true stories, in attractive prose, of edifying conversions
  resulting from the missionary zeal of priest and teacher.  Her graceful
  pen is ever at the service of every cause tending to the glory of God
  and the good of souls.

MOORE, THOMAS, was born in the city of Dublin, Ireland, in the year
  1779, and was educated at Trinity College.  His matchless “Melodies” are
  the delight of all lovers of music, and are sung all over the world. 
  Archbishop McHale of Tuam translated them into the grand old Celtic
  tongue.  Moore is the greatest of Ireland’s song-writers, and one of the
  world’s greatest.  As a poet few have equaled him in the power to write
  poetry which charms the ear by its delightful cadence.  His lines display
  an exquisite harmony, and are perfectly adapted to the thoughts which
  they express and inspire.  His grave is in England, where he spent the
  later years of his life, and where he died in 1852.  In 1896, the Moore
  Memorial Committee of Dublin erected over his grave a monument
  consisting of a magnificent and beautiful Celtic cross.

MOORE, CLEMENT C., poet and teacher, was born in New York in 1779. 
  In 1821 he was appointed professor in a Seminary founded by his father,
  who was Bishop Benjamin Moore of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New
  York.  He died in 1863.

MORRIS, GEORGE P., poet and journalist, wrote several popular
  poems, but is remembered chiefly for his songs and ballads.  He was born
  in Philadelphia in the year 1802, and died in New York in 1864.

MCCARTHY, DENIS ALOYSIUS, poet, lecturer and journalist, was born
  in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland, in the year 1871, and
  made his elementary and intermediate studies in the Christian Brothers’
  School of his native town.  Since his arrival in America in 1886, he has
  published two volumes of poems which he modestly calls “A Round of
  Rimes” and “Voices from Erin.”  “His poetry,” says a distinguished critic
  who is neither Irish nor Catholic, “is soulful and sweet, and sings
  itself into the heart of anyone who has a bit of sentiment in his
  make-up.”  Mr. McCarthy is at present Associate Editor of the Sacred
  Heart Review of Boston.  He lectures on literary and Irish themes, and
  contributes poems, stories, essays, book reviews, etc., to various
  papers and magazines.

NEWMAN, CARDINAL JOHN HENRY, was born in London in 1801, and
  studied at Trinity College, Oxford.  In 1824 he became a minister of the
  Church of England, and rose rapidly in his profession.  In 1845 he
  abandoned the English ministry, renounced the errors of Protestantism,