Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — AN ALL ROUND WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

AN ALL ROUND WOMAN.

Astronomer, Greek Scholar, Magazlnlst and Essayist. Miss Agnes Mary Clerke, .the woman astronomer, who recently won the prize offered by the Royal Institution ol England for the best work “illustrative of the wisdom and bepeficence of the Almighty in any department of science” is a most symmetrical whmftn mentally. Beside her “Popular History of Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century,” of which a third edition has /just been issued and “The System of the Stars,” she is the author of a charming book called “Familiar Stories from Homer." She is especially fond of Greece and Greek literature, is a constant contributor to scientific magazines and is one of the regular staff of the "Encyclopaedia Brittanica.” She is said never to have received any scientific training. All that %!he knows she has obtained from personal observations and private study. She is a devout Catholic.