Maurice Francis Egan, poet, essayist, novelist, journalist, and all-round literary man, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 24, 1852. His first instructors were the Christian Brothers, at their well-known La Salle College in that city. From La Salle he went to Georgetown College, as a professor of English. After leaving Georgetown he edited a short-lived venture, _McGee’s Weekly_. In 1881 he became assistant editor of the _Freeman’s Journal_, and remained virtually at the head of that paper until the death of its founder and the passing of the property to other hands. The founding of the Catholic University, and the acceptance of its English professorship by Warren Stoddard, made a vacancy in the faculty of Notre Dame University. This vacancy was offered to and accepted by Mr. Egan. There are few places better fitted as a poet’s home than Notre Dame. Beautiful scenery to fill the eye, brilliant society to spur the mind, and a spacious library freighted with the riches of the past. In comparison with the majority of the Catholic writers, the poet’s journey in life has been comparatively smooth, though far from what it should have been. He has published the following volumes:—“That Girl of Mine,” 1879; “Preludes,” 1880; “Song Sonnets,” London, 1885; “Theatre,” 1885; “Stories of Duty,” 1885; “Garden of Roses,” 1886; “Life Around Us,” 1886; “Novels and Novelists,” 1888; “Patrick Desmond,” 1893; “Poems,” 1893. To this list must be added innumerable articles in magazines and weekly journals. Judged by the signed output, it is safe to write that the English professor of Notre Dame is a very busy man. The wonder is that a mind so occupied by so many diverse things can write entertainingly of each.