James J. Daly (1872-1953) was an educator and author educated at St. Ignatius College in Chicago and St. Louis University. A Jesuit at 18, he was ordained in190. He served as literary editor of both America and Thought, and as professor of English at the University of Detroit. Among his writings are Boscobel and Other Rimes and a number of his scholarly essays which appeared in both A Cheerful Ascetic and Other Essays and The Road to Peace. Here we have a delightful sketch of the remarkable naturalist, Charles Waterton. [For more of these Catholic essays, see the Table of Contents.]

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