Mannix submits another installment of "Two Schools" with an explanation of the story's background. It is amazing how few American Catholics know anything about Archbishop Dupont and other great names in the history of the modern Church. She doubts if Charles Warren Stoddard s appreciated by many of the Ave Maria's readers. What a delightful companion he must be; how she wishes Stoddard would write that story with her. Mannix's experience with Maurice Francis Egan ould justify the description she was given of him as being both angelic and an eccentric genius, capricious and egotistical. When Egan became the editor of the New York Freeman's Journal, he published an article of hers and urged that she devote her time to being a newspaper correspondent. About this time Archbishop John Purcell ied; she wrote an article on his life. From then on Egan never answered her letters. Long afterward she remembered that unfriendly relations had existed between James Alphonsus McMaster nd Purcell, since the Civil War, when McMaster was a rebel and Purcell a Unionist. Mannix thinks Egan overrated as a writer, but a good critic. Mary Meline, who met Egan in New York, call him a boor and a mountain of conceit. Her husband, John B. Mannix eceived a letter from a gentleman in Cincinnati, who is interested in the creditor's suit, stating arrangements had been effected by which the trustee would release all claims on a compromise of $200,000. This fund was raised by contributions and the gentleman wanted to know what Mannix or his friends would contribute. Her husband's reply that his life was a struggle for subsistance and that he had no friends ended that. Mannix is incensed against Pope Leo XIII or having permitted Prince Rudolph to be buried with the highest honors. Leo XIII is too much of a diplomat for her. :: X-3-i A.L.S. 16pp. 12mo.