Chapter V: Front Matter (5)

Bookm. 47 ('18): 389 (Phelps); 52 ('21): 242, 285 (_for_ 385);
53 ('21) 389 (portrait); 54 ('21): 360.
Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 15. (Fletcher.)
Dial, 61 ('16): 528; 65 ('18): 263 (Untermeyer).
Liv. Age, 308 ('21): 231.
New Repub. 22 ('20): 98; 25 ('20): 86.
Poetry, 8 ('16): 90; 13 ('18): 155; 15 ('20): 271; 17 ('21): 266.
Survey, 45 ('20): 12.

+George Santayana+--poet, critic.

Born at Madrid, Spain, 1863. Came to the United States, 1872. A.B., Harvard, 1886; A.M., Ph.D., 1889. In 1889 began to teach philosophy at Harvard; professor, 1907-12.

While Mr. Santayana's chief work is in philosophy, he belongs to literature by the beauty of his poems, especially his sonnets, and by the quality of his prose.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*Sonnets and Other Poems. 1894.
The Sense of Beauty. 1896.
Lucifer--A Theological Tragedy. 1899.
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. 1900.
The Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems. 1901.
The Life of Reason. 1905.
Three Philosophical Poets. 1910.
Winds of Doctrine. 1913.
Philosophical Opinion in America. 1918.
Character and Opinion in the United States. 1920.
*Little Essays. 1920. (Selected with author's collaboration, by Logan
Pearsall Smith, q.v.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Rittenhouse.

Acad. 79 ('10): 561.
Ath. 1913, 1: 353.
Bookm. 47 ('18): 546.
Bookm. (Lond.) 58 ('20): 208.
Critic, 42 ('03): 129.
Cur. Op. 55 ('13): 120; 69 ('20): 860. (Portraits.)
Harp. W. 58 ('13): 27.
Ind. 61 ('06): 335 (portrait).
Liv. Age, 307 ('20): 50; 310 ('21): 200; 312 ('21): 300. (J. Middleton
Murry.)
Lond. Mer. 2 ('20): 411.
Nation, 109 ('19): 12.
New Repub. 23 ('20): 221; 25 ('21): 321.
New Statesman, 16 ('21): 729.
Outlook, 126 ('20): 729 (portrait).
Spec. 95 ('05): 119; 125 ('20): 239; 126 ('21): 19.

+Lew R. Sarett+--poet.

Born at Chicago, 1888. A.B., Beloit, 1911. Studied at Harvard, 1911-2; LL.B., University of Illinois, 1916. Woodsman and guide in the Northwest several months each year for nine years. Teacher of English and oratory. Since 1920, associate professor of oratory, Northwestern University. Lecturer on the Canadian North and on Indian life. Sarett's _Many, Many Moons: A Book of Wilderness Poems_, 1920 (with an introduction by Carl Sandburg), is a reflection of his familiarity with Indian material. Received the Levinson prize for his poem, "The Box of God," 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Poetry, 17 ('20): 158.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920.

+Clinton Scollard+--poet.

Born at Clinton, New York, 1860. A.B., Hamilton College, 1881. Studied at Harvard and at Cambridge, England. Professor of English literature, Hamilton College, 1888-96 and 1911--. Has published nearly forty volumes of graceful, accomplished verse. For bibliography, cf. _Who's Who in America_.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Rittenhouse.

Chaut. 35 ('02): 345.
Critic, 40 (02): 295 (portrait).
Lamp, 29 ('04): 451.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915.

+(Mrs.) Evelyn Scott+--poet, novelist.

Mrs. Scott has lived many years in Brazil (cf. _Poetry_, 15 ['19]: 100).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Precipitations. 1920. (Poems.)
The Narrow House. 1921. (Novel.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cent 103 ('22): 520. (H.S. Canby.)
Dial, 70 ('21): 591, 594.
Lond. Mercury, 5 ('22): 319.
New Repub. 28 ('21): 305. (Padraic Colum.)
Poetry, 17 ('21): 334. (Lola Ridge.)
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.

+Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Sélincourt)+--novelist.

Born at Englewood, New Jersey, 1873. Educated at home. Left America when nine years old and has since lived abroad, chiefly in Paris and London. Studied painting for several years in Paris. Her reputation was made by _Tante_, 1911. Her latest book is _Adrienne Toner_, 1922. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Sedgwick, H.D., The New American Type and Other Essays. 1908.

Ath. 1911, 2: 553.
Atlan. 109 ('12): 682.
Bookm. 34 ('12): 655.
Dial, 52 ('12): 323.
Ind. 72 ('12): 678.
Lond. Mercury, 5 ('22): 431.
Lond. Times, May 13, 1920: 301.
Nation, 94 ('12): 262.
New Statesman, 15 ('20): 137 (Rebecca West); 18 ('21): 200 (Rebecca
West).

+Alan Seeger+--poet.

Born in New York City, 1888. In his boyhood lived in Mexico, and later in Paris and London. Entered Harvard, 1906. In 1913, went to Paris. In the first weeks of the War, enlisted in the Foreign Legion of France and was in action almost continually. Killed July 4, 1916.

He won fame with his poem, "I Have a Rendezvous with Death."

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poems. 1916. (Introduction by William Archer.)
Letters and Diary. 1917.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 47 ('18): 399, 585.
Eng. R. 27 ('18): 199.
Lit. Digest, 53 ('16): 1190; 55 ('17): Oct. 27, p. 24 (portrait).
Liv. Age, 294 ('17): 221.
Lond. Times, June 29, 1917: 307; Dec. 14, 1917: 612.
New Repub. 10 ('17): 160.
New Statesman, 9 ('17): 356.
Poetry, 10 ('17): 38.
R. of Rs. 55 ('17): 208 (portrait).
Scrib. M. 61 ('17): 123.

+Ernest Thompson Seton+--Nature writer.

Born at South Shields, England, 1860. Lived in the backwoods of Canada, 1866-70 and on the Western plains, 1882-87. Educated at the Toronto Collegiate Institute and (as artist) at the Royal Academy, London. Official naturalist to the government of Manitoba. Studied art in Paris, 1890-6. One of the illustrators of the _Century Dictionary_. Prominent in the organization of the Boy Scout movement in America. For many years kept full journals of his expeditions and observations (illustrated). These make the "most complete pictorial animal library in the world."

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wild Animals I Have Known. 1898.
The Trail of the Sandhill Stag. 1899.
The Biography of a Grizzly. 1900.
Lobo, Rag and Vixen. 1900.
Lives of the Hunted. 1901.
Pictures of Wild Animals. 1901.
Krag and Johnny Bear. 1902.
Two Little Savages. 1903.
Monarch, the Big Bear. 1904.
Animal Heroes. 1905.
Biography of a Silver Fox. 1909.
Life-histories of Northern Animals. 1909.
Wild Animals at Home. 1913.
The Preacher of Cedar Mountain. 1916.
Wild Animal Ways. 1916.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Halsey.

Acad. 82 ('12): 523.
Am. M. 91 ('21): 14 (portrait).
Atlan. 91 ('03): 298.
Bookm. 13 ('21): 4; 25 ('07): 452. (Portraits.)
Bookm. (Lond.) 45 ('13): 144 (portrait), 147.
Bk. News, 18 ('00): 490.
Craftsman, 19 ('10): 66 (portrait.)
Critic, 39 ('01): 320 (portrait).
Everybody's, 23 ('10): 473.
Liv. Age, 232 ('02): 222.
Outlook, 69 (!01): 904 (portrait).
Spec, 105 ('10): 488; 117 ('16): 345.

+Dallas Lore Sharp+--Nature writer.

Born at Haleyville, New Jersey, 1870. A.B., Brown, 1895; S.T.B., Boston University, 1899; Litt. D., Brown, 1917. Ordained for the Methodist Episcopal ministry, 1896. Pastor, 1896-9; librarian, 1899-1902. On staff of _Youth's Companion_, 1900-3. Has taught English in Boston University since 1902, professor since 1909.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Wild Life Near Home. 1901.
A Watcher in the Woods. 1903.
Roof and Meadow. 1904.
The Lay of the Land. 1908.
The Face of the Fields. 1911.
Where Rolls the Oregon. 1914.
The Hills of Hingham. 1916.
Ways of the Woods. 1919.
Patrons of Democracy. 1920.
The Seer of Slabsides. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cur. Lit. 37 ('04): 230 (portrait).
Dial, 45 ('08): 297.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1914, 1916.

+Edward Brewster Sheldon+--dramatist.

Born at Chicago, 1886. A.B., Harvard, 1907; A.M., 1908. Mr. Sheldon's most successful play thus far is _Romance_, which was played by Doris Keane for almost ten years.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Nigger. 1910.
The Boss. 1911. (Quinn, _Representative American Plays_, 1917.)
Romance. 1914. (Baker, _Modern American Plays_, 1920.)
The Garden of Paradise. 1915.

For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 771.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players, 1916.
At the New Theatre, 1910.
Moses.

Harv. Grad. M. 17 ('09): 599 (portrait), 604.
Outlook, 102 ('12): 947.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1910, 1914.

+Stuart P(ratt) Sherman+--critic.

Born at Anita, Iowa, 1881. A.B., Williams, 1903; A.M., Harvard, 1904; Ph.D., 1906. Taught English at Northwestern University, 1906-11; professor at the University of Illinois since 1911. Associate editor of the _Cambridge History of American Literature_.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

On Contemporary Literature. 1917.
American and Allied Ideals. 1918.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cur. Op. 64 ('18): 270 (portrait).
Lamp, 29 ('04): 451, 452 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917.

+Upton Sinclair+--novelist.

Born at Baltimore, 1878. A.B., College of the City of New York, 1897. Did graduate work for four years at Columbia. Assisted in the government investigation of the Chicago stockyards, 1906 (cf. _The Jungle_). Socialist. Founded the Helicon Hall communistic colony at Englewood, New Jersey, 1906-7, and the Intercollegiate Socialist Society.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

King Midas. 1901.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling. 1903. (Autobiographical.)
*The Jungle. 1906.
The Metropolis. 1908.
The Money-changers. 1908.
Plays of Protest. 1911.
Sylvia. 1913.
Sylvia's Marriage. 1914.
The Cry for Justice. 1915. (Anthology.)
King Coal, a Novel of the Colorado Strike. 1917.
Jimmie Higgins. 1919.
*The Brass Check. 1919. (Arraignment of commercialized newspapers and
plea for an endowed newspaper.)
100%; the Story of a Patriot. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Arena, 35 ('06): 187 (portrait).
Ath. 1912, 1: 558; 2: 247.
Bookm. 23 ('06): 130 (portrait), 195, 244, 584; 24 ('07): 2, 443
(portrait).
Chaut. 64 ('11): 175 (portrait).
Cur. Lit. 41 ('06): 3 (portrait).
Cur. Op. 66 ('19): 386; 68 ('20): 669 (portrait).
Freeman, 4 ('21): 258, 262.
Ind. 57 ('04): 1133 (portrait); 62 ('07): 711; 71 ('11): 326.
Nation, 113 ('21): 347.
New Statesman, 1 ('13): 209.
Review, 4 ('21): 128.
R. of Rs. 31 ('05): 117; 33 ('06): 760; 34 ('06): 6. (Portraits.)
Spec. 96 ('06): 793; 99 ('07): 231.
World Today, 11 ('06): 676; 21 ('11): 1197. (Portraits.)

+Elsie Singmaster (Mrs. Harold Lewars)+--novelist.

Born at Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, 1879. A.B., Radcliffe, 1909; Litt. D., Pennsylvania College, 1916. Her work deals with the Pennsylvania Dutch.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gettysburg--Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath. 1913.
Katy Gaumer. 1914.
Emmeline. 1916.
Basil Everman. 1920.
John Baring's House. 1920.
Ellen Levis. 1921.
Bennett Malin. 1922.

For reviews, see _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1920.

+Logan Pearsall Smith+--essayist.

American scholar living in England. Belongs to literature through his _Trivia_--short prose poems, which suggest comparison with similar experiments by Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, and Marcel Schwob.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Youth of Parnassus and Other Stories. 1895.
Trivia. 1902. (Revised ed., 1918.)
More Trivia. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. (Lond.) 55 ('18): 68.
Cur. Op. 64 ('18): 123 (portrait).
Nation (Lond.), 26 ('19): 398.
New Statesman, 10 ('17-'18): 233; 11 ('18): 134.
Spec. 124 ('20): 50.

+Wilbur Daniel Steele+--novelist, short-story writer.

Born at Greensboro, North Carolina, 1886. A.B., University of Denver, 1907. Studied art in Boston, Paris, and New York, 1907-10.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Storm. 1914.
Land's End. 1918.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 46 ('18): 704 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918.

+George Sterling+--poet.

Born at Sag Harbor, New York, 1869. Educated in private and public schools. About 1895 he moved to the West and now lives in California.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Testimony of the Suns and Other Poems. 1903.
A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems. 1908.
The House of Orchids and Other Poems. 1911.
Beyond the Breakers and Other Poems. 1914.
The Caged Eagle and Other Poems. 1916.
The Binding of the Beast and Other Poems. 1917.
Lilith. 1919. (Dramatic poem.)
Rosamond. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 47 ('18): 339.
Poetry, 7 ('16): 307.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916.

+Wallace Stevens+--poet.

A New York lawyer, living in Hartford, Connecticut, whose work although not as yet collected into a volume has attracted much attention. Received the _Poetry_ prize for the best one-act play, in 1916, for his "Three Travellers Watch a Sunrise," and the Levinson prize for his "Pecksniffiana," 1920.

Mr. Stevens's art is purely decorative, and its effects must be studied as in pictorial art. He is an experimenter in free verse forms as well as in impressions.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poems in Little Review. 1918.
Others 1916, 1917, 1919.
Poetry, vols. 7, 8, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 28.
Poetry, 17 ('20): 155.

+Arthur Stringer+ (Canada, 1874)--novelist.

Author of _The Prairie Wife_, 1915, and _The Prairie Mother_, 1920. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+Simeon Strunsky+--essayist, man of letters.

Born at Vitebsk, Russia, 1879. A.B., Columbia, 1900. Department editor of the _New International Encyclopedia_, 1900-06, and editorial writer for the _New York Evening Post_, 1906--.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Patient Observer. 1911.
Post-Impressions. An Irresponsible Chronicle. 1914.
Belshazzar Court or Village Life in New York City. 1914.
Professor Latimer's Progress. 1918. (Novel.)
Little Journeys towards Paris. 1918.
Sinbad and His Friends. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 51 ('20): 65.
Cur. Op. 57 ('14): 198; 65 ('18): 51. (Portraits.)
Ind. 80 ('14): 245 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1914, 1918.

+Ida M(inerva) Tarbell+--essayist, historian.

Born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, 1857. A.B., Allegheny College, 1880; A.M., 1883. Honorary higher degrees. Associate editor of _The Chautauquan_, 1883-91. Studied in Paris at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France, 1891-4. On staff of _McClure's_ and associate editor, 1894-1906. Associate editor of the _American Magazine_, 1906-15.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Early Life of Abraham Lincoln. 1896. (With J. McCan Davis.)
Life of Abraham Lincoln. 1900.
He Knew Lincoln. 1907.
The Business of Being a Woman. 1912.
The Ways of Women. 1915.
New Ideals in Business. 1916.
The Rising of the Tide. 1919. (Novel.)
In Lincoln's Chair. 1920.
Peacemakers--Blessed and Otherwise. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Am. M. 62 ('06): Oct., 569, 574 (portrait); 63 ('06): Nov., p. 79;
78 ('14): Nov., p. 10 (portrait only).
Bookm. 16 ('03): 438. (Portraits.)
Craftsman, 14 ('08): 2 (portrait).
Critic, 46 ('05): 296 (portrait), 366.
Cur. Lit. 37 ('04): 28; 52 ('12): 682. (Portraits.)
Dial, 28 ('00): 192.
Ind. 90 ('17): 34; 91 ('17): 19. (Portraits.)
McClure's, 24 ('04): 109 (portrait), 217.
Nation, 70 ('00): 164; 104 ('17): 84.
Outlook, 64 ('00): 413; 78 ('04): 283 (portrait).

+(Newton) Booth Tarkington+--novelist, dramatist.

Born at Indianapolis, Indiana, 1869, of French ancestry on one side. Came early under the influence of Riley (q.v.), a neighbor. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Purdue University, and Princeton. Honorary higher degrees. Popular at college for his singing, acting and social talents. Began to study art but was not successful as an artist. Has written songs. Takes an active part in the social and political life of his state. Served in the Indiana legislature, 1902-3.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Consider separately Mr. Tarkington's studies of boy life (especially _Penrod_), and of adolescence (especially _Seventeen_ and _Clarence_). Judged by your own experience and observation, are they presented with true knowledge and humor, or are they a farcical skimming of surface eccentricities? Compare them with Mark Twain's books about boys and with Howells's _Boy's Town_.

2. Consider separately the historical novels. Is pure romance Mr. Tarkington's field? Why or why not?

3. Consider the justice or the injustice of the following:

According to all the codes of the more serious kinds of fiction, the
unwillingness--or the inability--to conduct a plot to its legitimate
ending implies some weakness in the artistic character; and this
weakness is Mr. Tarkington's principal defect.... Now this causes
the more regret for the reason that he has what is next best to
character in a novelist--that is, knack. He has the knack of
romance, when he wants to employ it: a light, allusive manner; a
sufficient acquaintance with certain charming historical epochs and
the "properties" thereto pertaining...; a considerable experience in
the ways of the "world"; gay colors, swift moods, the note of tender
elegy. He has also the knack of satire, which he employs more
frequently than romance ... he has traveled a long way from the
methods of his greener days. Why, then, does he continue to trifle
with his threadbare adolescents, as if he were afraid to write
candidly about his coevals? Why does he drift with the sentimental
tide and make propaganda for provincial complacency?

4. In what direction lies Mr. Tarkington's future? Is he likely to become more than a popular writer? What, if any, elements of enduring value do you find in his work?

5. What "Hoosier" elements do you find in his work? Compare him with Ade, Riley, Nicholson, and with the older writers of Indiana, Edward Eggleston, and Maurice Thompson.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Gentleman from Indiana. 1899.
*Monsieur Beaucaire. 1900. (Dramatized, with E.G. Sutherland.)
The Two Vanrevels. 1902.
Cherry. 1903.
In the Arena. 1905.
The Conquest of Canaan. 1905.
The Beautiful Lady. 1905.
His Own People. 1907.
The Guest of Quesnay. 1908.
Beasley's Christmas Party. 1909.
Beauty and the Jacobin. 1911.
The Flirt. 1913.
*Penrod. 1914.
*The Turmoil. 1915.
Penrod and Sam. 1916.
*Seventeen. 1916.
The Magnificent Ambersons. 1918.
Ramsey Milholland. 1919.
*Clarence. 1919. (Play.)
*Alice Adams. 1921.
Gentle Julia. 1922.

For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Who's Who in America_.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cooper.
Eaton, W.P. At the New Theatre. 1910.
Holliday, Robert C. Booth Tarkington. 1918.
Nicholson, Meredith. The Hoosiers. (National Studies in American
Letters.) 1900.
Phelps.

Am. M. 83 ('17): Jan., p. 9; 86 ('18): Nov., p. 18. (Portraits.)
Bookm. 16 ('02): 214 (portrait), 373; 21 ('05): 5 (portrait);
24 ('07): 605 (portrait); 42 ('16): 505, 507 (portrait);
46 ('17): 259 (portrait); 48 ('18): 493.
Bookm. (Lond.) 55 ('19): 123 (portrait).
Critic, 36 ('00): 399 (portrait); 37 ('00): 396.
Cur. Lit. 30 ('01): 280.
Harp. W. 46 ('02): 1773 (portrait).
Ind. 52 ('00): 67, 2795 (portrait).
Liv. Age, 300 ('19): 541.
Mentor, 6 ('18): supp., p. 3 (portrait).
Nation, 103 ('16): 330; 112 ('21): 233. (Carl Van Doren.)
Outlook, 72 ('02): 817 (portrait); 90 ('08): 701; 126 ('20): 281;
128 ('21): 658 (portrait).
World's Work, 39 ('20); 496 portrait).

+Bert Leston Taylor+ (+"B.L.T."+, Massachusetts, 1866)--humorist, poet,
"columnist."

Editor of "A Line o' Type or Two" in the _Chicago Tribune_ until his death in 1921. Characteristic books are _Motley Measures_, 1913, and _The So-Called Human Race_, 1922. For complete bibliography, cf. _Who's Who in America_.

+Sara Teasdale (Mrs. Ernst B. Filsinger)+--poet.

Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1884. Educated in private schools, St. Louis. Traveled in Europe and the Near East. Received prizes from the Poetry Society of America, 1916, 1918.

Sara Teasdale's love lyrics have been admired for their simplicity, feeling, and perfection of form. They need merely to be read to be appreciated.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems. 1907.
Helen of Troy and Other Poems. 1911.
Rivers to the Sea. 1915.
Love Songs. 1917.
The Answering Voice: One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women. 1917.
(Compilation.)
Vignettes of Italy. 1919. (Songs.)
Flame and Shadow. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Bookm. 42 ('15): 365 (portrait), 457.
47 ('18): 392 (Phelps).
Forum, 65 ('21): 229.
Lit. Digest, 58 (18'): 29 (portrait).
New Repub. 15 ('18): 239.
Poetry, 7 ('15): 148; 12 ('18): 264; 17 ('21): 272.
Touchstone, 2 ('17): 310 (portrait).

+Augustus Thomas+--dramatist.

Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1859. Son of the director of a theatre in New Orleans. As a boy often went to plays; began to write them at fourteen; at sixteen or seventeen, organized an amateur company. Educated in the St. Louis public schools. Page in the 41st Congress. Honorary A.M., Williams, 1914. Studied law two years; had six years of experience in railroading. Special writer, and illustrator on St. Louis, Kansas City, and New York newspapers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alabama. 1905.
The Witching Hour. 1908. (Also, Dickinson, _Chief Contemporary
Dramatists_, 1915.)
As a Man Thinks. 1911. (Also, Baker, _Modern American Plays_. 1920.)
Arizona. 1914.
In Mizzoura. 1916. (Also, Moses, _Representative Plays by American
Dramatists_, 1918-21, III.)
For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 771.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Boynton.
Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players. 1916
---- ---- At the New Theatre. 1910.
Moses.

Bookm. 33 ('11): 353 (portrait), 354.
Collier's, 44 ('09): 23.
Cur. Lit. 39 ('05): 544; 46 ('09): 544. (Portraits.)
Cur. Op. 64 ('18): 183.
Everybody's, 25 ('11): 681 (portrait).
Forum, 39 ('08): 366; 40 ('08): 43; 42 ('09): 575.
Ind. 61 ('06): 737 (portrait).
Outlook, 94 ('10): 212 (portrait); 110 ('15): 836, 865 (portrait).
Scrib. M. 55 ('14): 275 (portrait).
World's Work, 18 ('09): 11850 (portrait), 11882. (Van Wyck Brooks.)

+Eunice Tietjens (Mrs. Cloyd Head)+--poet.

Born at Chicago, 1884. Married Paul Tietjens, the composer, 1904; Cloyd Head, the writer, 1920. Associate editor of _Poetry_, 1914, 1916. War correspondent in France, 1917-8.

Mrs. Tietjens' _Profiles from China_ is based upon her experience as an observer of life in China.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Profiles from China. 1917.
Body and Raiment. 1919.
Jake. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Poetry, 10 ('17): 326; 15 ('20): 272.
Spec. 124 ('20): 315.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1919, 1921.

+Elias Tobenkin+--novelist.

Born in Russia, 1882. Came to the United States as a boy. A.B., University of Wisconsin, 1905; A.M., 1906. Specialized in German literature and philosophy. Extensive newspaper experience in Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Chicago. European correspondent of _New York Tribune_, 1918-9.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Witte Arrives. 1916.
The House of Conrad. 1918.
The Road. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 45 ('17): 300 (portrait), 303; 47 ('18): 340, 343.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1918.

+(Frederic) Ridgely Torrence+--poet, dramatist.

Born at Xenia, Ohio, 1875. Educated at Miami University and Princeton. Librarian in the Astor Library, 1897-1901, and Lenox Library, 1901-3. Assistant editor of _The Critic_, 1903-4, and associate editor of the _Cosmopolitan_, 1906-7.

Mr. Torrence's plays for a negro theatre are worth special study.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The House of a Hundred Lights. 1900.
El Dorado, a Tragedy. 1903.
Abelard and Heloise. 1907. (Poetic drama.)
Granny Maumee; The Rider of Dreams; Simon the Cyrenian. Plays for a
Negro Theatre. 1917.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Rittenhouse.

Atlan. 96 ('05): 712; 98 ('06): 333.
Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 96 (portrait).
Fortn. 86 ('06): 434.
New Repub. 10 ('17): 325.

+Horace Traubel+--poet, biographer.

Born at Camden, New Jersey, 1873, of part Jewish parentage. Worked as newsboy, errand boy, printer's devil, proof reader, reporter, and editorial writer. Editor of various publications, including _The Conservator_. Died in 1919.

Mr. Traubel is best known for his association with Whitman as friend, secretary, and literary executor. When Whitman went to Camden in 1873, he became a member of the Traubel household; and Mr. Traubel's account of his life there is of the greatest value for the study of Whitman.

Although Traubel's poetry was strongly influenced by Whitman, he worked out a philosophy of his own which is worth study. An interesting comparison can be made of his ideas with Whitman's and with Edward Carpenter's (cf. Manly and Rickert, _Contemporary British Literature_).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chants Communal. 1905.
With Walt Whitman in Camden--a Diary. 1905 (Volume I). 1908 (Volume II).
1914 (Volume III).
Optimos. 1910. (Poems.)
Collects. 1915.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Karsner, D. Horace Traubel, His Life and Work. 1919.
Untermeyer.

Am. M. 76 ('13): Nov., pp. 59 (portrait), 60.
Arena, 40 ('08): 128 (portrait), 183.
Cur. Lit. 39 ('05): 37 (portrait); 52 ('12): 590 (portrait).
Forum, 50 ('13): 708.
Freeman, 1 ('20): 46, 448.
*Open Court, 34 ('20): 49, 87.

+Jean Starr Untermeyer+--poet.

Born at Zanesville, Ohio, 1886. Educated at Putnam Seminary, Zanesville, and special student at Columbia. In 1907, she married Louis Untermeyer (q.v.).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Growing Pains. 1918.
Dreams out of Darkness. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.
Poetry, 14 ('19): 47. (Amy Lowell.)
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1921.

+Louis Untermeyer+--poet, critic.

Born in New York City, 1885. Educated at the De Witt Clinton High School, New York. An accomplished pianist and professional designer of jewelry. Married Jean Starr (q.v.), 1907. Business man. Associate editor of _The Seven Arts_ (cf. _Poetry_, 9 ['16-'17]: 214). Contributing editor to _The Liberator_. Socialist.

Mr. Untermeyer's early verse was influenced by Heine, Housman, and Henley, especially the last; but he has broken away from them to an individual expression of social passions.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Younger Quire. 1911.
First Love. 1911.
Challenge. 1914.
"---- and Other Poets." 1917. (Parodies.)
These Times. 1917.
The New Era in American Poetry. 1919.
Including Horace. 1919.
Modern American Poetry. 1919. (Anthology.)
The New Adam. 1920.
Modern British Poetry. 1920. (Anthology.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 47 ('18): 266. (Phelps.)
Lond. Times, Nov. 17, 1921: 746.
New Statesman, 18 ('21): 114.
Outlook, 122 ('19): 644 (portrait).
Poetry, 4 ('14): 203; 11 ('17): 157; 14 ('19): 159; 17 ('21): 212.
Sat. Rev. 132 ('21): 737.

+Carl Van Doren+--critic.

Born at Hope, Illinois, 1885. A.B., University of Illinois, 1907; Ph.D., Columbia, 1911. Taught English at the University of Illinois, 1907-16; assistant professor, 1914-6. Associate in English at Columbia since 1916. Headmaster of The Brearley School, New York, 1916-9. Literary editor of _The Nation_, 1919--. Co-editor of the _Cambridge History of American Literature_. His most important books are _The American Novel_, 1921; _Contemporary American Novelists_, 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cur. Op. 71 ('21): 642.
Dial, 71 ('21): 355.
Nation, 113 ('21): 18.
New Repub. 29 ('21): 106.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1921.

+Henry van Dyke+--man of letters.

Born at Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1852. Graduate of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1869; A.B., Princeton, 1873, A.M., 1876; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1877; at the University of Berlin, 1877-9. Many honorary higher degrees and other marks of distinction. Ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, 1879. Pastor in Newport, Rhode Island, 1879-82, and in New York, 1883-1900, 1902, 1911. Professor of English literature at Princeton University, 1900--. American lecturer at the University of Paris, 1908-9. United States minister to The Netherlands, 1913-7.

Most of Mr. Van Dyke's numerous stories, essays, and poems are to be found in his _Collected Works_, 1920. His most recent works are: _Camp-Fires and Guide Posts_, 1921, and _Songs Out of Doors_, 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Halsey.

Bookm. 30 ('10): 551; 38 ('13): 20. (Portraits.)
Cent. 67 ('04): 579 (portrait).
Critic, 42 ('03): 511, 516 (portrait).
Cur. Lit. 28 ('00): 282.
Nation, 104 ('17): 54.
Outlook, 99 ('11): 704.
R. of Rs. 41 ('10): 509 (portrait).

+Hendrik Willem van Loon+--man of letters.

Born at Rotterdam, Holland, 1882. A.B., Cornell, 1905; Ph.D., Munich, 1911. Associated Press correspondent in Russia during the revolution of 1906 and in various countries of Europe during the war. Lecturer on history and the history of art.

Mr. Van Loon has made a place in literature by _The Story of Mankind_, 1921. Cf. _Book Review Digest_, 1921.

+Stuart Walker+--dramatist.

Born at Augusta, Kentucky. A.B., University of Cincinnati, 1902. Studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Play-reader, actor, and stage manager with David Belasco (q.v.), 1909-14. Originator of the Portmanteau Theatre, 1914, and since 1915 his own producer.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Portmanteau Plays. 1917. (The Triplet, Nevertheless, The Medicine
Show, Six Who Pass While the Lentils Boil.)
More Portmanteau Plays. 1919. (The Lady of the Weeping Willow
Tree, The Very Naked Boy, Jonathan Makes a Wish.)

Portmanteau Adaptations. 1920.
Sir David Wears a Crown. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

New Repub. 13 ('17): 222; 21 ('19): 60.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919.

+Eugene Walter+--dramatist.

Born at Cleveland, Ohio, 1874. Educated in the public schools. Political and general news reporter on various newspapers in Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Seattle, and New York. Business manager of theatrical and amusement enterprises, ranging from minstrels and circuses to symphony orchestras and grand opera companies. Served in the Spanish War. His most successful play, _The Easiest Way_ (1908), is printed by Dickinson, _Chief Contemporary Dramatists_, 1915, and by Moses, _Representative Plays by American Dramatists_, 1918-21, III.

For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 772.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Eaton, W.P. At the New Theatre. 1910.
Am. M. 71 ('10): 121 (portrait).
Cur. Op. 62 ('17): 403.
Drama, 6 ('16): 110.

+Willard Austin Wattles+--poet.

Born at Bayneville, Kansas, 1888. A.B., University of Kansas, 1909; A.M., 1911. Taught English in various schools; since 1914, at the University of Kansas.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sunflowers--A Book of Kansas Poems. 1014. (Compilation; includes
some of his poems.)
Lanterns in Gethsemane. 1918.
The Funston Double-Track and Other Poems. 1919.
Silver Arrows. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.
Ind. 91 ('17): 59 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919.

+Mary Stanbery Watts (Mrs. Miles Taylor Watts+)--novelist.

Born at Delaware, Ohio, 1868. Educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Cincinnati, 1881-4.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Tenants. 1908.
*Nathan Burke. 1910.
The Legacy. 1911.
Van Cleve. 1913.
*The Rise of Jennie Cushing. 1914.
From Father to Son. 1919.
The House of Rimmon. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Overton.

Bookm. 27 ('08); 157 (portrait), 159; 31 ('10); 454 (portrait).
Cur. Op. 56 ('14): 137 (portrait).
Ind. 71 ('11): 532 (portrait).
New Repub. 2 ('15): 152. (Robert Herrick.)
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916-20.

+Henry Kitchell Webster+--novelist.

Born at Evanston, Illinois, 1875. Ph.M., Hamilton College, 1897. Instructor in rhetoric at Union College, 1897-8. Since then he has given his time entirely to writing novels.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Short Line War. 1899. (With Samuel Merwin.)
Calumet "K". 1901. (With Samuel Merwin.)
The Real Adventure. 1916.
The Painted Scene. 1916. (Short stories.)
The Thoroughbred. 1917.
An American Family. 1918.
Mary Wollaston. 1920.
Real Life. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 26 ('07): 4 (portrait only).
Everybody's, 37 ('17): Nov., p. 16 (portrait).
New Repub. 9 ('16): 133.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920.

+Winifred Welles+--poet.

Born at Norwich Town, Connecticut, 1893, and educated in the vicinity. Her first volume, _The Hesitant Heart_, 1920, attracted attention for its lyric beauty.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 51 ('20): 457.
New Repub. 23 ('20): 156.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.

+Rita Wellman (Mrs. Edgar F. Leo)+--dramatist.

Born at Washington, D.C., 1890. Daughter of Walter Wellman, the airman and explorer. Educated in public schools and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Gentile Wife. 1919.
Wings of Desire. 1919. (Novel.)
Funiculi Funicula. 1919. (Mayorga.)

+Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton+--novelist, short-story writer.

Born in New York City, 1862. Educated at home but spent much time abroad when she was young. Mrs. Wharton is a society woman and a great lover of outdoors and of animals. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Mrs. Wharton's friendship with Henry James and the derivation of her methods from his suggest an interesting comparison of the work of these two writers. For this comparison, books treating of similar material should be chosen; for example, Mrs. Wharton's _The Custom of the Country_ or _Madame de Treymes_ with Mr. James's _Portrait of a Lady_ or _The Ambassadors_. The result will show that Mrs. Wharton, having an essentially different type of mind, has worked out an interesting set of variations of Mr. James's method.

2. Mrs. Wharton's novels of American social life should be studied and judged separately from her Italian historical novel (_The Valley of Decision_) and from her New England stories, _Ethan Frome_ and _Summer_.

3. Two special phases of Mrs. Wharton's work which call for study are her management of supernatural effects in some of her short stories and her use of satire.

4. Her short stories offer a basis of comparison with those of Mrs. Gerould (q.v.), another disciple of Mr. James.

5. Has Mrs. Wharton enough originality and enough distinction to hold a permanent high place as a novelist of American manners?

6. Use the following criticisms by Mr. Carl Van Doren as the basis of a critical judgment of your own. Decide whether he is in all respects right:

From the first Mrs. Wharton's power has lain in the ability to
reproduce in fiction the circumstances of a compact community in a
way that illustrates the various oppressions which such communities
put upon individual vagaries, whether viewed as sin, or ignorance,
or folly, or merely as social impossibility.

She has always been singularly unpartisan, as if she recognized it
as no duty of hers to do more for the herd or its members than to
play over the spectacle of their clashes the long, cold light of her
magnificent irony.

It is only in these moments of satire that Mrs. Wharton reveals much
about her disposition: her impatience of stupidity and affectation
and muddy confusion of mind and purpose; her dislike of dinginess;
her toleration of arrogance when it is high-bred. Such qualities do
not help her, for all her spare, clean movement, to achieve the
march or rush of narrative; such qualities, for all her satiric
pungency, do not bring her into sympathy with the sturdy or burly or
homely, or with the broader aspects of comedy.... So great is her
self-possession that she holds criticism at arm's length, somewhat
as her chosen circles hold the barbarians. If she had a little less
of this pride of dignity she might perhaps avoid her tendency to
assign to decorum a larger power than it actually exercises, even in
the societies about which she writes.... The illusion of reality in
her work, however, almost never fails her, so alertly is her mind on
the lookout to avoid vulgar or shoddy romantic elements.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Greater Inclination. 1899.
The Touchstone. 1900.
Crucial Instances. 1901.
The Valley of Decision. 1902.
Sanctuary. 1903.
The Descent of Man, and Other Stories. 1904.
Italian Villas and Their Gardens. 1904.
Italian Backgrounds. 1905.
*The House of Mirth. 1905.
*Madame de Treymes. 1907.
The Fruit of the Tree. 1907.
The Hermit and the Wild Woman. 1908.
A Motor-flight Through France. 1908.
Artemis to Actæon. 1909.
Tales of Men and Ghosts. 1910.
*Ethan Frome. 1911.
The Reef. 1912.
*The Custom of the Country. 1913.
Fighting France. 1915.
*Xingu and Other Stories. 1916.
Summer. 1917.
The Marne. 1918.
In Morocco. 1920.
French Ways and their Meaning. 1919.
*The Age of Innocence. 1920.
Glimpses of the Moon. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Björkman, E. Voices of Tomorrow. 1913.
Cooper.
Halsey. (Women.)
Sedgwick, H.D. The New American Type. 1908.
Underwood.

Atlan. 98 ('06): 217.
Bookm. 33 ('11): 302 (portrait).
Critic, 37 ('00): 103 (portrait), 173.
Cur. Op. 58 ('15): 272.
Dial, 68 ('20): 80.
Harp. W. 49 ('05): 1750 (portrait).
Lit. Digest, 55 ('17): Aug. 4, p. 37 (portrait).
Lond. Times, Dec. 5, 1919: 710.
Nation, 85 ('07): 514; 97 ('13); 404; 112 ('21): 40. (Carl Van Doren.)
New Repub. 2 ('15): 40; 3 ('15): 20; 10 ('17): 50.
New Statesman, 8 ('16): 234.
No. Am. 182 ('06): 840; 183 ('06): 125 (continuation of previous
article.)
Outlook, 71 ('02): 209, 211 (portrait); 81 ('05): 719; 90 ('08): 698
(portrait), 702.
Putnam's, 3 ('08): 590 (portrait).
Quarterly R. 223 ('15): 182 (Percy Lubbock)=Liv. Age, 284 ('15): 604.
Spec. 95 ('05): 470.

+John Hall Wheelock+--poet.

Born at Far Rockaway, Long Island, 1886. A.B., Harvard, 1908; studied at the University of Göttingen, 1909; University of Berlin, 1910. With Charles Scribner's Sons since 1911.

Strongly influenced by Whitman and Henley.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Human Fantasy. 1911.
The Beloved Adventure. 1912.
Love and Liberation. 1913.
Dust and Light. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Lit. Digest, 55 ('17): Nov. 10, p. 29 (portrait).
Poetry, 4 ('14): 163; 15 ('20): 343.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919.

+Stewart Edward White+--novelist, short story writer.

Born at Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1873, of pioneer ancestry. At the age of twelve, went with his father to California and for four years lived mostly in the saddle. At the age of sixteen, went to high school in Michigan but spent much time in the woods, studying the birds and making a large collection of specimens. Ph.B., University of Michigan, 1895; A.M., 1903. Went to the Black Hills in a gold rush, but returned poor and went to Columbia to study law, 1896-7. He was influenced by Brander Matthews to write. Made his way into literature via book-selling and reviewing. Explored in the Hudson Bay wilderness and in Africa, spent a winter as a lumberman in a lumber camp, and finally went to the Sierras of California to live. He is a thorough woodsman.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Claim Jumpers. 1901.
*The Blazed Trail. 1902.
Conjuror's House. 1903.
The Magic Forest. 1903.
*The Silent Places. 1904.
Blazed Trail Stories. 1904.
Arizona Nights. 1907.
The Riverman. 1908.
*The Rules of the Game. 1909.
The Cabin. 1910.
The Land of Footprints. 1912. (Travel.)
African Camp Fires. 1913. (Travel.)
Gold. 1913.
The Rediscovered Country. 1915. (Travel.)
The Gray Dawn. 1915.
The Forty-Niners. 1918. (_Chronicles of America Series_, vol. 25.)
The Rose Dawn. 1920.
The Killer. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 17 ('03): 308 (portrait); 31 ('10): 486 (portrait); 38 ('13): 9.
Bookm. (Lond.) 27 ('05): 253; 46 ('14): 31 (portrait and illustrations).
Mentor, 6 ('18): supp. no. 14 (portrait only).
Outing, 43 ('03): 218 (portrait).
World's Work, 6 ('03): 3695. (portrait).

+Brand Whitlock+--novelist, short story writer.

Born at Urbana, Ohio, 1869. Educated in public schools and privately. Honorary higher degrees. Newspaper experience in Toledo and Chicago, 1887-93. Clerk in office of Secretary of State, Springfield, Illinois, 1893-7. Studied law and was admitted to the bar, (Illinois, 1894; Ohio, 1897). Practiced in Toledo, Ohio, 1897-1905. Elected mayor as Independent candidate, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911; declined fifth nomination. Minister (1913) and ambassador (1919) to Belgium and did distinguished war service there.

Mr. Whitlock has made his political experience the basis of his most interesting contributions to literature.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*The 13th District. 1902.
Her Infinite Variety. 1904.
The Happy Average. 1904.
*The Turn of the Balance. 1907.
Abraham Lincoln. 1908.
The Gold Brick. 1910.
On the Enforcement of Law in Cities. 1910.
The Fall Guy. 1912.
Forty Years of It. 1914.
Memories of Belgium Under the German Occupation. 1918.
Belgium; a Personal Narrative. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Am. M. 69 ('10): 599, 601 (portrait); 82 ('16): Nov., p. 30. (portrait).
Arena, 37 ('07): 560 (portrait), 623.
Bookm. (Lond.) 56 ('19): 58 (portrait), 201.
Cur. Op. 58 ('15): 167 (portrait).
Everybody's, 38 ('18): Jan., p. 25 (portrait).
Harper's, 129 ('14): 310.
Lit. Digest, 51 ('15): 1240, 1352 (portrait).
Nation, 105 ('17): 21.
New Repub. 5 ('15): 86.
No. Am. 192 ('10): 93. (Howells.)
Outlook, 111 ('15): 652, 661 (portrait).
R. of Rs. 43 ('11): 119; 52 ('15): 703 (portrait).
Spec. 122 ('19): 795.

+Margaret Widdemer (Mrs. Robert Haven Schauffler)+--poet, novelist.

Born at Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Educated at home. Graduate of the Drexel Institute Library School, 1909. Her first published poem, "Factories," attracted wide attention for its humanitarian interest. In 1918, she shared with Carl Sandburg (q.v.) the prize of the Poetry Society of America. Her verse reflects the attitudes and interests of the modern woman.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Rose-Garden Husband. 1915. (Novel.)
*Factories, with Other Lyrics. 1915.
Why Not? 1915. (Novel.)
The Wishing-Ring Man. 1917. (Novel.)
The Old Road to Paradise. 1918.
You're Only Young Once. 1918. (Novel.)
The Board Walk. 1919. (Short stories.)
I've Married Marjorie. 1920. (Novel.)
Cross-Currents. 1921.
The Year of Delight. 1921. (Novel.)
A Minister of Grace. 1922. (Short stories.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.
Bookm. 42 ('15): 458; 47 ('18): 392.
Poetry, 7 ('15): 150; 14 ('19): 273.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921.

+Kate Douglas Wiggin (Mrs. George C. Riggs)+--Story-writer.

Born at Philadelphia, 1859. As a child, lived in New England and was educated at home, and at Abbott Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Honorary Litt. D., Bowdoin, 1906. Studied to be a kindergarten teacher. Later, her family moved to Southern California and she organized the first free kindergarten for poor children on the Pacific coast. Her kindergarten experience is seen in her first two books. She has continued her interest in kindergarten work. Musician (piano and vocal); composer.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Birds' Christmas Carol. 1888.
The Story of Patsy. 1889.
*Timothy's Quest. 1890.
Penelope's English Experiences. 1893.
Penelope's Progress. 1898.
Penelope's Experiences in Ireland. 1901.
*Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. 1903. (Play, 1908.)
Rose o' the River. 1905.
New Chronicles of Rebecca. 1907.
The Old Peabody Pew. 1907. (Play, 1917.)
Mother Carey's Chickens. 1911. (Play, 1915.)
The Story of Waitstill Baxter. 1913.
Penelope's Postscripts. 1915. (Play.)
Collected Works. 1917.
Ladies-in-Waiting. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Halsey. (Women.)
Harkins. (Women.)
Cooper.
Overton.
Wiggin, K.D. The Girl and the Kingdom: Learning to Teach.
Atlan. 90 ('02): 276.
Bk. Buyer, 8 ('91): 285.
Bookm. 18 ('03): 4 (portrait), 652; 20 ('05): 402 (portrait);
25 ('07): 226 (portrait), 304, 566; 32 ('10): 236 (portrait);
40 ('15): 478.
Bookm. (Lond.) 38 ('10): 149 (portrait); 43 ('12): 9.
Critic, 43 ('03): 388; 47 ('05): 197. (Portraits.)
Cur. Lit. 30 ('01): 277.
J. Educ. 83 ('16): 594 (portrait).
Lamp, 29 ('05): 585.
Lit. Digest, 63 ('19): 30 (portrait).
Outlook, 75 ('03): 847 (portrait).

+Percival Wilde+--dramatist.

Born in New York City, 1887. B.S., Columbia, 1906. Banker, inventor, reviewer. Has been writing plays since 1912, and has had many produced in Little Theatres.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dawn, with The Noble Lord, The Traitor, A House of Cards, Playing with
Fire, The Finger of God; One-Act Plays of Life Today. 1915.
Confessional, and Other American Plays. 1916. (Confessional, The Villain
in the Piece, According to Darwin, A Question of Morality, The
Beautiful Story.)
The Unseen Host, and Other War Plays. 1917. (The Unseen Host, Mothers
of Men, Pawns, In the Ravine, Valkyrie.)

For Bibliography of unpublished plays, see _Who's Who in America_.

For Reviews, see the _Book Review Digest_, 1915-17.

+Marguerite (Ogden Bigelow) Wilkinson+ (+Mrs. James G. Wilkinson+, Nova
Scotia, Canada, 1883)--poet.

Compiler of _Golden Songs of the Golden State_ (California anthology), 1917, and of _New Voices_, (studies in modern poetry with extensive quotations), 1919. Has also published several volumes of poetry.

+Ben Ames Williams+--novelist.

Born at Macon, Mississippi, 1889. A.B., Dartmouth, 1910. Newspaper writer until 1916.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

All the Brothers Were Valiant. 1919.
The Sea Bride. 1919.
The Great Accident. 1920.
Evered. 1921.

For reviews, _see Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1920, 1921.

+Jesse Lynch Williams+ (Illinois, 1871)--novelist, short-story writer.

First attracted attention with his stories of college life. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+William Carlos Williams+--poet.

Born in 1883. Physician. Lives in Rutherford, New Jersey, where his first book was privately printed. Co-editor of _Contract_.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poems. 1909.
The Tempers. 1913.
A Book of Poems, Al Que Quiere. 1917.
Kora in Hell: Improvisations. 1920.
Sour Grapes. 1921.
Also in: Des Imagistes. 1914.
Dial. (_Passim._)
Egoist. (_Passim._)
Little Review. (_Passim._)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Dial, 70 ('21): 352, 565; 72 ('22): 197.
Poetry, 17 ('21): 329.

+Harry Leon Wilson+ (Illinois, 1867)--novelist, dramatist.

His best-known novel is _Ruggles of Red Gap_, 1915. Collaborated with Booth Tarkington (q.v.) in the plays, _The Man from Home_, 1908, and _Bunker Bean_, 1912. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+Owen Wister+--novelist.

Born at Philadelphia, 1860. A.B., Harvard, 1882; A.M., LL.B., 1888; honorary LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1907. Admitted to the Philadelphia bar, 1889. In literary work since 1891.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Dragon of Wantley--His Tail. 1892.
Red Men and White. 1896.
Lin McLean. 1898. (Short stories.)
The Jimmy John Boss. 1900.
*The Virginian. 1902.
Philosophy 4. 1903.
A Journey in Search of Christmas. 1904.
*Lady Baltimore. 1906.
The Seven Ages of Washington. 1907. (Biography.)
Members of the Family. 1911. (Short stories.)
The Pentecost of Calamity. 1915. (Germany in 1914.)
The Straight Deal; or The Ancient Grudge. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cooper.
Bk. Buyer, 25 ('02): 199.
Bookm. 27 ('08): 458, 465 (portrait).
Critic, 41 ('02): 358.
Cur. Lit. 33 ('02): 127 (portrait), 238.
Dial, 59 ('15): 303.
Ind. 60 ('06): 1159 (portrait).
Lond. Times, July 4, 1902: 196.
World's Work, 5 ('02): 2792, 2795 (portrait); 6 ('03): 3694.

+Charles Erskine Scott Wood+--poet.

Born at Erie, Pennsylvania, 1852. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy, 1874; Ph.B., LL.B., Columbia, 1883. Served in the U.S. Army, 1874-84, in various campaigns against the Indians. Admitted to the bar, 1884, in Portland, Oregon, and practiced until he retired, 1919. Painting, as well as writing, an avocation.

His knowledge of the Indians and of the desert appears in his principal work, a long poem in the manner of Whitman, _The Poet in the Desert_.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A Book of Tales, Being Myths of the North American Indians. 1901.
A Masque of Love. 1904.
*The Poet in the Desert. 1915.
Maia. 1916.
Circe. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.
Cur. Op. 59 ('15): 268.
Poetry, 6 ('15): 311.
Sunset, 28 ('12): 232 (portrait).

+George Edward Woodberry+--poet, critic.

Born at Beverly, Massachusetts, 1855. A.B., Harvard, 1877. Honorary higher degrees. Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, 1877-8, 1880-2, and of comparative literature, Columbia, 1891-1904.

Mr. Woodberry has published many volumes of poetry and criticism. His critical writings were brought together in his _Collected Essays_ (six volumes) in 1921. His most recent volume of poetry is _The Roamer and Other Poems_, 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bacon, E.M. Literary Pilgrimages, 1902.
Halsey.
Ledoux, L.V. The Poetry of George Edward Woodberry. 1917.
Rittenhouse.

Bookm. 17 ('03): 336 (portrait); 47 ('18): 549.
Critic, 43 ('03): 321 (portrait), 327.
Cur. Lit. 33 ('02): 513; 42 ('07): 289 (portrait).
Manchester Guardian Wkly., Jan. 20, 1922: 53.
Outlook, 64 ('00): 875.
Poetry, 3 ('13): 69; 11('17): 103.
Weekly Review, 4 ('21): 273.

CLASSIFIED INDEXES

(Since the authors appear in the body of the book in alphabetical order, page references have been omitted in these indexes.)