Yet the author of "The Truce of God" had mastered the story teller's and the dramatist's art.

"If there was ever a born _litterateur_," writes Eugene L.Didier, in _The Catholic World_ for May, 1881, "that man was George Henry Miles.

His taste was pure, exquisite and refined, his imagination was rich, vivid, and almost oriental in its warmth." Moreover, he consecrated his life and his talents to the cause of Catholic education, identifying himself for many years with Mount St.Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland, with whose annals so much of the early history of the Catholic Church in the United States, is closely linked.
The author of "The Truce of God" was born in Baltimore, July 31, 1824; he died at Emmitsburg, July 23, 1872.

In his twelfth year the lad entered Mount St.Mary's College.

Here he became a Catholic and had afterwards the happiness of seeing his family follow him into the Church.