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Show Katherlne Eleanor Conway. Boston, July 8. Miss Katherlne Eleanor Elea-nor Conway, of this city, is a poet and critic of exceptional talent. Miss Conway Con-way was born in Rochester, N. Y., but has been for many years a literary worker of Boston. Miss Conway is on the edl- KaTHKWNE ELEANOR CONWAY. torial staff of Boyle O'Keilly's journal, The Pilot. She has published a volume of poems called "On the Snnriso Slope," and edited for Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement, Clem-ent, the well known art writer, a volume entitled "Christian Symbols and Stories of the Saints." An exquisitely bound copy, in white velvet and gold, was sent to Pope Leo XIII, and his holiness acknowledged ac-knowledged it in an autograph letter. In her early girlhood Miss Conway came undc the personal influence and instruction of Bishop M'Quaid, one of the most distinguished Cutholio prelates in America, and nnder this stimulus her literary gifts were harmoniously developed. devel-oped. Miss Conway is the president of the Roxbnry branch of the Catholic union; she is a leading member in the Woman's Press club, and is very much in demand before clubs and societies as a reader of her own papers. Miss Conway was the first Catholio woman ever invited to address the Woman's Wo-man's union in Boston, an organization that while not sectarian is still positive in Protestant tendencies. Miss Conway has a peculiarly earnest and impressive presence, and unusual as are her gifts, and finely as she expresses them, of her it may still be well said: The poet's deep, poetic heart Is bettor than the poet's fame. |