Part 4
Dr. Crothers's essays are rich with suave and scholarly humor, and are written in a style suggestive of Lamb's.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Gentle Reader. 1903. The Understanding Heart. 1903. The Pardoner's Wallet. 1905. The Endless Life. 1905. By the Chrismas Fire. 1908. Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Fellow Boarders. 1909. Among Friends. 1910. Humanly Speaking. 1912. Three Lords of Destiny. 1913. Meditations on Votes for Women. 1914. The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord. 1916. The Dame School of Experience. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Pattee.
## Bookm. 32 ('11): 631.
Critic, 48 ('06): 200 (portrait). Cur. Op. 63 ('17): 406 (portrait). Outlook, 102 ('12): 645 (portrait), 648. So. Atlan. Q. 8 ('09): 150.
+James Oliver Curwood+ (Michigan, 1878)--novelist.
His material deals with primitive life in Canada. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.
+Thomas Augustine Daly+--poet.
Born at Philadelphia, 1871. Left college without a degree. Honorary higher degrees. In 1889 became a newspaper man, and since 1891 has been connected as reviewer, editorial writer, and "columnist" with Philadelphia newspapers; associate editor of the _Evening Ledger_, 1915-8.
Mr. Daly has written good poetry in English, but is best known for the dialect verses which he has published in the columns edited by him. His most popular verses are in the Irish and Italian dialects.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Canzoni. 1906. Carmina. 1909. Madrigali. 1912. Songs of Wedlock. 1916. McAroni Ballads. 1919.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Am. M. 70 ('10): 750 (portrait); 89 ('20): June, p. 16. Dublin R. 155 (4 s., 46) ('14): 116. Outlook, 103 ('13): 261. Poetry, 16 ('20): 278.
+Olive Tilford Dargan (Mrs. Pegram Dargan)+--poet, dramatist.
Born in Kentucky. Educated at the University of Nashville and at Radcliffe. Taught in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Canada until she married. Traveled abroad, 1910-14. Winner of $500 prize offered by the Southern Society of New York for best book by Southern writer, 1916.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Semiramis and Other Plays. (Carlotta, The Poet.) 1904. Lords and Lovers and Other Dramas. (The Shepherd, The Siege.) 1906. The Mortal Gods and Other Dramas. (A Son of Hermes, Kidmir.) 1912. The Welsh Pony. 1913. (Privately printed.) Path Flower and Other Poems. 1914. The Cycle's Rim. 1916. The Flutter of the Goldleaf and Other Plays. 1922. (With Frederick Peterson.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
## Bookm. 37 ('13): 123 (portrait).
Outlook, 85 ('07): 328. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1913, 1914, 1916.
+Mary Carolyn Davies+--poet.
Born at Sprague, Washington, and educated in and near Portland, Oregon. As a freshman at the University of California, she won the Emily Chamberlin Cook prize for poetry, 1912, and also the Bohemian Club prize.
The poems of Miss Davies express "the girl consciousness" (Kreymborg).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Drums in Our Street. 1918. (Poems.) The Slave with Two Faces. 1918. (Play.) Youth Riding. 1919. (Lyrics.) A Little Freckled Person. 1919. (Child Verse.) The Husband Test. 1921. Also in: Others, 1916, 1917.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Poetry, 12 ('18): 218. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919.
+Fannie Stearns Davis.+ See +Fannie Stearns Davis Gifford+
+Margaret Wade Deland (Mrs. Lorin F. Deland)+--novelist, short-story writer.
Born at a village called Manchester, now a part of Alleghany, Pennsylvania, 1857. Educated in private schools, and studied drawing and design at Cooper Institute. Later, taught design in a girls' school in New York City.
Mrs. Deland's father was a Presbyterian and her mother an Episcopalian (cf. _John Ward, Preacher_), and her home town is the "Old Chester" of her books.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Old Garden and Other Verses. 1887. *John Ward, Preacher. 1888. Florida Days. 1889. Sidney. 1890. The Story of a Child. 1892. Mr. Tommy Dove and Other Stories. 1893. Philip and His Wife. 1894. The Wisdom of Fools. 1897. (Short stories.) *Old Chester Tales. 1898. *Dr. Lavendar's People. 1903. (Short stories.) The Common Way. 1904. The Awakening of Helena Richie. 1906. An Encore. 1907. R.J.'s Mother and Some Other People. 1908. The Way to Peace. 1910. The Iron Woman. 1911. The Voice. 1912. Partners. 1913. The Hands of Esau. 1914. Around Old Chester. 1915. (Short stories.) The Rising Tide. 1916. The Promises of Alice. 1919. Small Things. 1919. An Old Chester Secret. 1920. The Vehement Flame. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Halsey. (Women.) Overton. Pattee.
## Bookm. 25 ('07): 511 (portrait).
Critic, 44 ('04): 107 (portrait). Cur. Op. 65 ('18): 178 (portrait). Harp. 123 ('11): 963. Harp. W. 50 ('06): 859, 1110. (Portraits.) Ind. 61 ('06): 337 (portrait). Outlook, 64 ('00): 407; 84 ('06): 730 (portrait); 99 ('11): 628.
+Floyd Dell+--novelist.
Born in Barry, Illinois, 1887. Left school at sixteen for factory work. Literary editor of the _Chicago Evening Post_. Literary editor of _The Masses_ and now of _The Liberator_.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Women as World Builders. 1913. Were You Ever a Child? 1919. (Education.) The Angel Intrudes, a Play in One Act. 1918. Moon-Calf. 1920. Novel. The Briary Bush. 1921. (Novel.) Sweet and Twenty. 1921. (Comedy in One Act.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
## Bookm. 53 ('21); 245.
Freeman, 2 ('21); 403. Nation, 111 ('20): 670. New Repub. 25 ('20): 49; 29 ('21): 78. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1920, 1921.
+Babette Deutsch (Mrs. Avrahm Yarmolinsky)+--poet, critic.
Born in New York City, 1895. A.B., Barnard, 1917. Later, worked at the School for Social Research. She attracted attention by her first volume of poems, _Banners_, 1919.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Poetry, 15 ('19): 166. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1921.
+John (Roderigo) Dos Passos+--novelist.
Mr. Dos Passos' presentation (_Three Soldiers_) of the experiences of privates in the U.S. Army during the War roused violent discussion.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
One Man's Initiation. 1917. 1920. Three Soldiers. 1921. Rosinante to the Road Again. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
## Bookm. 54 ('21): 393.
Cur. Op. 71 ('21): 624 (portrait). Dial, 71 ('21): 606. Freeman, 4 ('21): 282. Lit. Digest, 71 ('21): 29 (portrait). Lond. Mercury, 5 ('22): 319. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1921.
+Theodore Dreiser+--novelist, dramatist.
Born at Terre Haute, Indiana, 1871, of German ancestry. Educated in the public schools of Warsaw, Indiana, and at the University of Indiana. Newspaper work in Chicago and St. Louis, 1892-5. Editor of _Every Month_ (literary and musical magazine), 1895-8. Editorial positions on _McClure's_, _Century_, _Cosmopolitan_, and various other magazines, finally becoming editor-in-chief of the Butterick Publications (_Delineator_, _Designer_, _New Idea_, _English Delineator_), 1907-10. Organized the National Child Rescue Campaign, 1907.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. As Mr. Dreiser is considered by many critics the novelist of biggest stature as yet produced by America, the nature and sources of his strength and of his weakness deserve careful analysis. Observe (1) that his attitude toward life and his general method derive from Zola; (2) that his materials are drawn from his extensive and varied experience as a journalist; (3) that these two facts are exemplified in brief in his biographical studies, _Twelve Men_, which are "human documents."
2. Note the dates of _Sister Carrie_ and of _Jennie Gerhardt_, and work out Dreiser's loss and gain during the long period of silence between them.
3. _Hey, Rub-a-Dub-Dub_ (cf. _Nation_, 109 ['19]: 278) should be read by every student of Dreiser, for its revelation of his attitude toward humanity, which contributes largely to the greatness of his work, and of his failure to think out a point of view, which is a fundamental weakness. Note his admission: "I am one of those curious persons who cannot make up their minds about anything."
4. With what types of material does Mr. Dreiser succeed best? Why?
5. Discuss Mr. Dreiser's style in connection with the following topics: (1) economy; (2) realism; (3) suggestion; (4) taste; (5) rhythmic beauty. What deeply rooted defect is suggested by the following description of the Woolworth Building in New York:--"lifts its defiant spear of clay into the very maw of heaven"?
6. How far does Mr. Dreiser represent American life? Do you think his work will be for some time the best that we can do in literature?
7. Read Mr. Van Doren's article (listed below) for suggestion of other points for discussion. The following passage is especially significant:
Not the incurable awkwardness of his style nor his occasional merciless verbosity nor his too frequent interpositions of crude argument can destroy the effect which he produces at his best--that of a noble spirit brooding over a world which in spite of many condemnations he deeply, somberly loves. Something peasantlike in his genius may blind him a little to the finer shades of character and set him astray in his reports of cultivated society. His conscience about telling the plain truth may suffer at times from a dogmatic tolerance which refuses to draw lines between good and evil or between beautiful and ugly or between wise and foolish. But he gains, on the whole, more than he loses by the magnitude of his cosmic philosophizing.... From somewhere sound accents of an authority not sufficiently explained by the mere accuracy of his versions of life. Though it may indeed be difficult for a thinker of the widest views to contract himself to the dimensions needed for realistic art, and though he may often fail when he attempts it, when he does succeed he has the opportunity, which the mere worldling lacks, of ennobling his art with some of the great lights of the poets.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
*Sister Carrie. 1900. *Jennie Gerhardt. 1911. The Financier. 1912. A Traveller at Forty. 1913. (Travel sketches.) The Titan. 1914. The Genius. 1915. Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural. 1916. A Hoosier Holiday. 1916. (Travel sketches.) Free and Other Stories. 1918. The Hand of the Potter. 1918. (Tragedy.) Twelve Men. 1919. (Biographical studies.) Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. 1920. A Book about Myself. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Mencken, H.L., Prefaces. Sherman, Stuart P., On Contemporary Literature, 1917.
Acad. 85 ('13): 133. (Frank Harris.)
## Bookm. 34 ('11): 221 (portrait); 38 ('14): 673; 53 ('21): 27 (portrait).
Cur. Lit. 53 ('12): 696 (portrait). Cur. Op. 62 ('17): 344 (portrait); 63 ('17): 191; 66 ('19): 175. Dial, 62 ('17): 343, 507. Egoist, 3 ('16): 159. Ind. 71 ('11): 1267 (portrait). Lond. Times, June 23, 1921: 403. Nation, 101 ('15): 648 (Stuart P. Sherman); 112 ('21): 400. (Carl Van Doren.) New Repub. 2 ('15): supp. Apr. 17, Pt. II, p. 7. No. Am. 207 ('18): 902. Review, 2 ('20): 380. (Paul Elmer More.) R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 242 (portrait). Spec. 118 ('17): 139.
+William Edward Burghardt Du Bois+--man of letters.
Born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1865. Of negro descent but with large admixture of white blood. A.B., Fisk University, 1888; Harvard, 1890; A.M., 1891; Ph.D., 1895. Studied at the University of Berlin. Professor of economics and history, Atlanta University, 1896-1910. Director of publicity of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and editor of the _Crisis_, 1910--.
Mr. Du Bois is a distinguished economist and primarily a propagandist for the equal rights and education of the negro, but he belongs to literature as the author of _Darkwater_.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Souls of Black Folk. 1903. John Brown. 1909. The Quest of the Silver Fleece. 1911. *Darkwater. 1920. (Stories, sketches, essays.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Am. M. 66 ('08): May, pp. 61 (portrait), 65. Freeman, 1 ('20): 95. Lit. Digest, 65 ('20): May 1, p. 86. Nation, 110 ('20): 726. New Repub. 22 ('20): 189. World Today, 12 ('07): 6 (portrait). World's Work, 41 ('20): 159 (portrait).
+Finley Peter Dunne+--humorist.
Born at Chicago, 1867. Educated in Chicago public schools. Began newspaper work as reporter, 1885. On _Chicago Evening Post_ and _Chicago Times Herald_, 1892-7. Editor of the _Chicago Journal_, 1897-1900. Since 1900 has lived and worked in New York.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War. 1898. Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His Countrymen. 1899. Mr. Dooley's Philosophy. 1900. Mr. Dooley's Opinions. 1901. Observations by Mr. Dooley. 1902. Dissertations by Mr. Dooley. 1906. Mr. Dooley Says. 1910. Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils. 1919.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Am. M. 62 ('06): 571 (portrait); 65 ('07): 173.
## Bookm. 51 ('20): 674.
Cent. 63 ('01): 63 (portrait). Cur. Lit. 38 ('05): 29 (portrait). Harp. W. 47 ('03): 331 (portrait), 346. Ind. 62 ('07): 741 (portrait). Lit. Digest, 44 ('12): 427 (portrait). No. Am. 176 ('03): 743. (Howells.) New Repub. 20 ('19): 235. Outlook, 123 ('19): 94 (portrait). Spec. 90 ('03): 258; 125 ('20): 146.
+Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa)+--writer.
Born at Redwood Falls, Minnesota, 1858, of Santee Sioux ancestry, his father being a full-blood Indian, and his mother a half-breed. B.S., Dartmouth, 1887; M.D., Boston University, 1890. Government physician, Pine Ridge Agency, 1890-3. Indian secretary, Y.M.C.A., 1894-7. Attorney for Santee Sioux at Washington, 1897-1900. Government physician, Crow Creek, South Dakota, 1900-3. Appointed to revise Sioux family names, 1903-9.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Indian Boyhood. 1902. Old Indian Days. 1907. The Soul of the Indian. 1911. The Indian Today. 1915. From the Deep Woods to Civilization. 1916.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bk. Buyer, 24 ('02): 21 (portrait). Chaut. 35 ('02): 335 (portrait), 339. Outlook, 65 ('00): 83 (portrait). R. of Rs. 33 ('06): 700 (portrait), 703.
+Max Eastman+--poet, essayist, critic.
Born at Canandaigua, New York, 1883. Both his parents were Congregationalist preachers. A.B., Williams College, 1905. From 1907 to 1911, associate in philosophy at Columbia. In 1911, began to give his entire time to studying and writing about the problems of economic inequality. In 1913, became editor of _The Masses_, a periodical which voiced his theories, and which in 1917 became _The Liberator_.
In his _Enjoyment of Poetry_, Mr. Eastman shows in an interesting way how poetry can be made to contribute to the enrichment of life.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Child of the Amazons and Other Poems. 1913. The Enjoyment of Poetry. 1913. Journalism Versus Art. 1916. Understanding Germany. 1916. The Colors of Life. 1918. The Sense of Humor. 1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Countryside M. 23 ('16): 273 (portrait). Cur. Op. 55 ('13): 126 (portrait). Dial, 65 ('18): 611 (Louis Untermeyer); 66 ('19): 146. (Arturo Giovannitti.) Harp. W. 57 ('13): June 7, p. 20. Lit. Digest, 54 ('17): 71 (portrait). New Repub. 9 ('17): 303. (Hackett.) Poetry, 2 ('13): 140; 3 ('13): 31; 13 ('19): 322. Survey, 30 ('13): 489.
+Walter Prichard Eaton+--critic, essayist.
Born at Malden, Massachusetts, 1878. A.B., Harvard, 1900. Dramatic critic on the _New York Tribune_, 1902-7, and the _New York Sun_, 1907-8, and on the _American Magazine_, 1909-18.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The American Stage of Today. 1908. At the New Theatre and Others. 1910. Barn Doors and Byways. 1913. The Man Who Found Christmas. 1913. The Idyl of Twin Fires. 1915. New York. 1915. Plays and Players. 1916. Green Trails and Upland Pastures. 1917. Newark. 1917. Echoes and Realities. 1918. (Poems.) In Berkshire Fields. 1919. On the Edge of the Wilderness. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
## Bookm. 28 ('09): 412; 29 ('09): 473. (Portraits).
Country Life, 25 ('14): Jan., p. 110 (portrait). Lit. Digest, 53, ('16): 1711 (portrait).
+"Albert Edwards."+ See _Arthur Bullard_.
+T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot+--poet, critic.
Born at St. Louis, Missouri, 1888. A.B., Harvard, 1909; A.M., 1910. Studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at Merton College, Oxford. Teacher and lecturer in London since 1913.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. Is Mr. Eliot's poetry derived from a keen sense of life experienced or from literature? What echoes of earlier poets do you find in his work?
2. Does the adjective _distinguished_ apply to his work? What are the sources of his distinction? What evidences of fresh vision of old things do you find? of unexpected and true associations and contrasts? of a delicate sense for essential details that make a picture? of the power of suggestive condensation? of ability to get an emotional effect through irony?
3. Consider the following quotation from Mr. Eliot as illuminative of his method of work: "The contemplation of the horrid or sordid by the artist is the necessary and negative aspect of the impulse toward beauty."
4. It is interesting to make a special study of Mr. Eliot's management of verse.
5. What, if any, temperamental defect is likely to interfere with his development?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Poems. 1920. The Sacred Wood. Essays on Poetry and Criticism. 1921. The Waste Land. 1922. Also in: The Little Review, 4 ('17): May, June, September.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Ath. 1920, 1: 239. Dial, 68 ('20): 781; 70 ('21): 336. Freeman, 1 ('20): 381; 2 ('21): 593. (Conrad Aiken.) Lond. Times, June 13, 1919: 322; Dec. 2, 1920: 795. Nation, 110 ('20): 856. Poetry, 10 ('17): 264; 16 ('20): 157; 17 ('21): 345. New Statesman, 16 ('21): 418. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.
+John Erskine+--essayist, poet.
Born in New York City, 1879. A.B., Columbia, 1900; A.M., 1901; Ph.D., 1903. Taught English at Amherst and Columbia. Since 1916, professor at Columbia. Co-editor of the _Cambridge History of American Literature_.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent, and Other Essays. 1915. The Shadowed Hour. 1917. (Poems.) Democracy and Ideals, a Definition. 1920. The Kinds of Poetry, and Other Essays. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Dial, 70 ('21): 347. Outlook, 126 ('20): 377 (portrait). See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920.
+Theodosia Faulks (Theodosia Garrison: Mrs. Frederic J. Faulks)+--poet.
Born at Newark, New Jersey, 1874. Educated in private schools.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Joy o' Life and Other Poems. 1909. Earth Cry and Other Poems. 1910. The Dreamers. 1917.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
## Bookm. 16 ('02): 16 (portrait); 47 ('18): 398.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1921.
+Edna Ferber+--short-story writer, novelist.
Born at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1887. Educated in the public and high schools of Appleton, Wisconsin. Began newspaper work at seventeen as reporter on the _Appleton Daily Crescent_. Later, employed on the _Milwaukee Journal_ and the _Chicago Tribune_.
Miss Ferber's special contribution to American Literature thus far has been through her studies of American women in business.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dawn O'Hara. 1911. Buttered Side Down. 1912. Roast Beef Medium. 1913. Personality Plus. 1914. Emma McChesney & Co. 1915. Fanny Herself. 1917. Cheerful--By Request. 1918. Half Portions. 1920. $1200 a Year. 1920. (Comedy.) The Girls. 1921. (Novel.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Overton.
## Bookm. 54 ('21): 393; 54 ('22): 434 (portrait), 582.
Cur. Op. 54 ('13): 491 (portrait). New Repub. 29 ('22): 158. (Hackett.) See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921.
+Arthur Davison Ficke+--poet.
Born at Davenport, Iowa, 1883. A.B., Harvard, 1904. Studied at the College of Law, State University of Iowa. Taught English at State University of Iowa, 1905-7. Admitted to the bar, 1908. Under the name "Anne Knish" joined Witter Bynner (q.v.) under the pseudonym "Emanuel Morgan" in writing _Spectra_. Mr. Ficke's knowledge of art, especially Japanese art, has an important bearing upon his work.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
From the Isles. 1907. The Happy Princess. 1907. The Earth Passion. 1908. The Breaking of Bonds. 1910. Twelve Japanese Painters. 1913. Mr. Faust. 1913. *Sonnets of a Portrait Painter. 1914. The Man on the Hilltop. 1915. Chats on Japanese Prints. 1915. Spectra. 1916. (Under pseudonym "Anne Knish," with Witter Bynner, q.v.) An April Elegy. 1917.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Forum, 55 ('16): 240, 675. Poetry, 4 ('14): 29; 6 ('15): 39, 247; 10 ('17): 323; 12 ('18): 169. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915.
+Dorothy Canfield Fisher (Dorothea Frances Canfield Fisher, Mrs. John Redwood Fisher)+--novelist.
Born at Lawrence, Kansas, 1879. Ph.B., Ohio State University, 1899; Ph.D., Columbia, 1904. Secretary of Horace Mann School, 1902-5. Studied and traveled widely in Europe and speaks several languages. Spent several years in France, doing war work.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Squirrel-Cage. 1912. Hillsboro People. 1915. (Short stories, with poems by Sarah Cleghorn, q.v.) *The Bent Twig. 1915. The Real Motive. 1916. Fellow-Captains. 1916. (With Sarah Cleghorn, q.v.) (Essays.) Self-Reliance. 1916. Understood Betsy. 1917. Home Fires in France. 1918. The Day of Glory. 1919. *The Brimming Cup. 1921. Rough-Hewn. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Overton.
## Bookm. 42 ('16): 599; 48 ('18): 105; 53 ('21): 453.
Dial, 65 ('18): 320. Lit. Digest, 69 ('21): June 11, p. 57. New Repub. 5 ('16): 314. R. of Rs. 45 ('12): 759 (portrait). See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1917-9, 1921.
+F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald+--novelist, short-story writer.
Born in 1896.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
This Side of Paradise. 1920. Flappers and Philosophers. 1920. (Short stories.) The Beautiful and Damned. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Lond. Times, June 23, 1921: 402. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920.
+John Gould Fletcher+--poet, critic.
Born at Little Rock, Arkansas, 1886. Studied at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and at Harvard, 1903-7. Has lived much in England.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. Read the prefaces to _Irradiations_ and _Goblins and Pagodas_ for Mr. Fletcher's theory of poetry before you read the poems themselves. Has he succeeded in making the arts of painting and music do service to poetry?
2. After reading the poems, consider the justice or injustice of Mr. Aiken's criticism: "It is a sort of absolute poetry, a poetry of detached waver and brilliance, a beautiful flowering of language alone--a parthenogenesis, as if language were fertilized by itself rather than by thought or feeling. Remove the magic of phrase and sound and there is nothing left: no thread of continuity, no thought, no story, no emotion. But the magic of phrase and sound is powerful, and it takes one into a fantastic world."
3. Do you find any poems to which the quotation given above does not apply? Are these of more or of less value than the others?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Irradiations--Sand and Spray. 1915. Goblins and Pagodas. 1916. Japanese Prints. 1917. The Tree of Life. 1918. Breakers and Granite. 1921. Paul Gauguin; His Life and Art. 1921.
For bibliography of editions out of print, see _A Miscellany of American Poetry_. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Lowell. Untermeyer.
## Bookm. 41 ('15): 236 (portrait).
Dial, 66 ('19): 189. Egoist, 2 ('15): 73, 79, 177 (portrait); 3 ('16): 173. New Repub. 3 ('15): 75, 154, 204; 5 ('15): 280; 9 ('16): supp. p. 11. Poetry, 7 ('15): 44, 88; 9 ('16): 43; 13 ('19); 340; 19 ('21): 155. Sat. Rev. 126 ('18): 1039. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1918, 1919, 1921.
+Sewell Ford+ (Maine, 1868)--short-story writer.
The creator of Shorty McCabe and Torchy. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.
+John (William) Fox, Jr.+--novelist.
Born in Kentucky, 1862, of a pioneer family. Pupil of James Lane Allen (q.v.), whose influence on his work should be noted. Also associated in friendship with Roosevelt and with Thomas Nelson Page. War correspondent during the Spanish and Japanese wars. Died in 1919.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
*The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. 1903. Following the Sun Flag. 1905. A Knight of the Cumberland. 1906. *The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. 1908. The Heart of the Hills. 1913. In Happy Valley, 1917. Erskine Dale; Pioneer. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
## Bookm. 32 ('10): 363.
Nation, 109 ('19): 72. Outlook, 90 ('08): 700; 126 ('20): 333. (Portraits.) Scrib. M. 66 ('19): 674. (Thomas Nelson Page.)
+Waldo David Frank+--novelist.
Born in 1889. His criticism of America (1919) roused much discussion.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Unwelcome Man. A Novel. 1917. Our America. 1919. Dark Mother. 1920. Rahab. 1922.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cur. Op. 68 ('20): 80 (portrait). Dial, 62 ('17): 244 (Van Wyck Brooks); 70 ('21): 95. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1919.
+Mary E(leanor) Wilkins Freeman (Mrs. Charles M. Freeman)+--short-story writer, novelist, dramatist.
Born at Randolph, Massachusetts, 1862. Educated there and at Mount Holyoke Seminary, 1874.
BIBLIOGRAPHY