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...will. Smallpox, fire, sub-zero weather, the little Indian girls themselves were obstacles but no more. Mere Marie indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual account of missionary activity but admits finally: "Mere Marie was fundamentally humorless...
...Pennsylvania, Yale and Columbia. Many a spring freshet has gurgled under the bridge since she published her first book of essays in 1888, but she is still one of the mainstays of Boston's august Atlantic Monthly. With Princeton's equally down right Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Agnes Repplier shares first place among present-day U. S. women essayists. Unmarried, 73, she lives in Philadelphia. Some of her books: Essays in Idleness, Counter Currents, Points of Friction, Life of Pere Marquette...
MERE MARIE or THE URSULINES - Agnes Repplier - Doubleday, Doran...
...undoubtedly in the trough of a moral as well as of a business depression, not that there is any connection between them. The high moral fervor of the war period has been followed, very naturally by a cynical reaction. The evidences abound on all sides. What Agnes Repplier called the decay of reticence, and what others call by a harsher name, indicates a general breaking down of standards. The way students steal books from college libraries is another evidence of a general moral slump. These evidences cannot be entirely dissociated from political corruption, unscrupulous business methods, racketeering, and general lawlessness...
...founders of the new Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, whose object is to stamp out the hypocrisy of dry-voting by wet-drinkers and get the law changed (TIME, June 10). Socially formidable antagonists to Mrs. Strawbridge in Philadelphia will be Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Novelist Agnes Repplier, Mrs. Herbert Lincoln Clark...