M MARIA LOUISE EVE. ISS MARIA LOUISE EVE was born near Augusta, Georgia. Her father, Dr. Edward Armstrong Eve, was one of many of the same name who have adorned the medical profession. Her great-great-grandfather, Oswell Eve, commanded a man-of-war, "The Roebuck," under George III, in ante-revolutionary days. Upon the opening of hostilities, he requested "to be sent on other service, as he had many friends in the Colonies." The family afterward came to America, locating first in Philadelphia, drifting thence to Charleston, S. C., and finally to the neighborhood of Augusta, Georgia. Miss Eve, from childhood, aspired to poesy, but her first literary success was a prose essay, for which she was awarded a prize of one hundred dollars, in 1866. The Mobile News, in 1879, offered a prize of one hundred dollars for the best poem expressing the South's gratitude for Northern aid in the yellow fever epidemic of the preceding year. Miss Eve won this prize, and her noble verses, overflowing with grace and tenderness, were widely reproduced here and abroad. Miss Eve has been specially honored by the Peace Society of this country and England because of her poetry bearing upon the subject of peace. Her pure and gentle spirit is naturally attuned to unwarlike settlement of controversies. 44 Of Miss Eve's poems the best known are "Conquered at Last,"" Woes of Ireland," Unfulfilled," "Filling his Place," Easter Morning." and "The Lion and the Eagle." She has written poetry for the love of it, while striving for successful recognition in the field of letters in order to While uplift humanity and alleviate its woes. true to this mission, she has carried out in her daily occupation the virtues that shine in her verses. In all the arduous duties and trials of life she has been ever unselfish, sacrificial, charitable and devoted. Her personal example is itself a poem and her presence betokens the interior peace that dwells in consecrated natures. talents given her by heaven she has used to the utmost, with a generous yet modest persistence. Possibly her life work is more distinct and individual because of its limitations. She has made the South respected and loved, and, with her woman's hand unbarred many a door to love which political disturbers had closed with hate. The J. R. R. THE LION AND THE EAGLE. On reading the dispatch announcing the coming of the English Peace Deputation to America. COME Over, come over the waters so dark, O white-winged ship, as the dove from the ark Returning at eve, to her master's hand, The Lion and Eagle, for peace, would convene, CONQUERED AT LAST. Shortly after the last yellow-fever scourge swept up the Mississippi Valley the "Mobile News" offered a prize for the poem by a Southern writer which should best express the gratitude of the Southern heart towards the people of the North for the philanthropy and magnanimity so nobly and freely displayed during the pestilence. This offer called forth seventy-seven compositions from various parts of the South, and the prize was finally awarded Miss Maria L. Eve, of Augusta, Georgia, the author of "Conquered at Last." You came to us once, O brothers, in wrath, The angel that walketh in darkness was there;He walked through the valley, walked through the street, And he left the print of his fiery feet In the dead, dead, dead, that were everywhere, treasure. O Sisters of Mercy, you gave above these! Than to lay down his life that his friends may live. FILLING HIS PLACE. YOUNG Rip Van Winkle took into his head What a blank he left, alack and alack! But the years went round till they brought him back. And one lazy day in the last of June |