Egan
MAURICE FRANCIS, an American author; born in Philadelphia, May 24, 1852; was graduated at La Salle College. Subsequently he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Notre Dame, Ind., and Professor of English Language and Literature in the Catholic University of America in Washington, D. C. He was appointed U. S. Minister to Denmark in 1907. His experiences in that post he described in "Ten Years on the German Frontier" (1919). He is the author of 30 books, including: "That Girl of Mine" (1879); "Preludes" (1880), a book of poems; "Songs and Sonnets" (1885); "Stories of Duty" (1885); "A Garden of Roses" (1886); "The Life Around Us" (1886); "Everlasting St. Francis" (1912), etc.