Chapter 2

Lived in Washington from 1877 until his death in 1918, but traveled extensively and knew many famous people.

In memory of his wife, he commissioned Saint Gaudens to make for her tomb in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, the statue sometimes called _Silence_, which is one of the sculptor's most beautiful works.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. _The Education of Henry Adams_ is autobiographic.

The persistent irony of the presentation should be corrected by reading Brooks Adams's account of his brother.

2. _Mont Saint Michel and Chartres_ is an attempt to interpret the spirit of mediæval architecture, both secular and ecclesiastical. To appreciate it fully, familiarity with the subject is necessary.

The novels are worth study as satires.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Democracy. 1880. (Novel.) Esther. 1884. (Novel; under pseudonym, "Frances Snow Compton.") Historical Essays. 1891. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. 1904. The Education of Henry Adams. 1918. The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma. 1919. Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres. 1920. Also in: A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cambridge.

Ath. 1919, 1: 361; 1919, 2: 633; 1920, 1: 243, 665. Atlan. 125 ('20): 623; 127 ('21): 140. Bookm. (Lond.) 57 ('19): 30. Cur. Op. 66 ('19): 108. Dial, 65 ('18): 468. Dublin Rev. 164 ('19): 218. Harv. Grad. M. 26 ('18): 540. Lond. Times, May 30, 1919: 290. Nation, 106 ('18): 674. New Repub. 15 ('18): 106. New Statesman, 16 ('21): 711. 19th Cent. 85 ('19): 981. Pol. Sci. Q. 34 ('19): 305. Scrib. M. 69 ('21): 576 (portrait). Spec. 122 ('19): 231. World's Work, 4 ('02): 2324. Yale Rev. n.s. 8 ('19): 580; n.s. 9 ('20): 271, 890.

+George Ade+--humorist, dramatist.

Born at Kentland, Indiana, 1866. B.S., Purdue University, 1887. Newspaper work at Lafayette, Indiana, 1887-90. On the _Chicago Record_, 1890-1900.

Although some of his earlier plays were successful and promised a career as dramatist, his reputation now rests chiefly upon his humorous modern fables.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fables in Slang. 1900. More Fables. 1900. Forty Modern Fables. 1901. The County Chairman. 1903. (Play.) The College Widow. 1904. (Play.) Ade's Fables. 1914. Hand-Made Fables. 1920.

For complete bibliography, see _Cambridge_, III (IV), 640, 763.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Moses.

Am. M. 73 ('11): 71 (portrait), 73. Bookm. 51 ('20): 568; 54 ('21): 116. Harp. W. 47 ('03): 411 (portrait), 426. No. Am. 176 ('03): 739. (Howells.) Rev. 2 ('20): 461.

+Conrad Potter Aiken+--poet, critic.

Born at Savannah, Georgia, 1889. A.B., Harvard, 1912. Has lived abroad, in London, Rome, and Windermere.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. A good introduction to Mr. Aiken's verse is his own explanation of his theory in _Poetry_, 14 ('19); 152ff. To readers to whom this is not accessible, the following extracts may furnish some clue as to his aim and method:

What I had from the outset been somewhat doubtfully hankering for was some way of getting contrapuntal effects in poetry--the effects of contrasting and conflicting tones and themes, a kind of underlying simultaneity in dissimilarity. It seemed to me that by using a large medium, dividing it into several main parts, and subdividing these parts into short movements in various veins and forms, this was rendered possible. I do not wish to press the musical analogies too closely. I am aware that the word symphony, as a musical term, has a very definite meaning, and I am aware that it is only with considerable license that I use the term for such poems as _Senlin_ or _Forslin_, which have three and five parts respectively, and do not in any orthodox way develop their themes. But the effect obtained is, very roughly speaking, that of the symphony, or symphonic poem. Granted that one has chosen a theme--or been chosen by a theme!--which will permit rapid changes of tone, which will not insist on a tone too static, it will be seen that there is no limit to the variety of effects obtainable: for not only can one use all the simpler poetic tones...; but, since one is using them as parts of a larger design, one can also obtain novel effects by placing them in juxtaposition as consecutive movements....

All this, I must emphasize, is no less a matter of emotional tone than of form; the two things cannot well be separated. For such symphonic effects one employs what one might term emotion-mass with just as deliberate a regard for its position in the total design as one would employ a variation of form. One should regard this or that emotional theme as a musical unit having such-and-such a tone quality, and use it only when that particular tone-quality is wanted. Here I flatly give myself away as being in reality in quest of a sort of absolute poetry, a poetry in which the intention is not so much to arouse an emotion merely, or to persuade of a reality, as to employ such emotion or sense of reality (tangentially struck) with the same cool detachment with which a composer employs notes or chords. Not content to present emotions or things or sensations for their own sakes--as is the case with most poetry--this method takes only the most delicately evocative aspects of them, makes of them a keyboard, and plays upon them a music of which the chief characteristic is its elusiveness, its fleetingness, and its richness in the shimmering overtones of hint and suggestion. Such a poetry, in other words, will not so much present an idea as use its resonance.

2. An interesting comparison may be made between the work of Mr. Aiken, and that of Mr. T.S. Eliot (q.v.), of whom he is an admirer. See also Sidney Lanier's latest poems.

3. Another interesting study is the influence of Freud upon the poetry of Mr. Aiken.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Earth Triumphant and Other Tales. 1914. Turns and Movies. 1916. The Jig of Forslin. 1916. Nocturne of Remembered Spring. 1917. The Charnel Rose; Senlin: a Biography, and other Poems. 1918. Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry. 1919. The House of Dust. 1920. Punch, the Immortal Liar. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Ath. 1919, 2: 798, 840; 1920, 1: 10. Bookm. 47 ('18): 269; 51 ('20): 194. Chapbook, 1-2, May, 1920: 26. Dial, 64 ('18): 291 (J.G. Fletcher); 66 ('19): 558 (J.G. Fletcher); 68 ('20): 491; 70 ('21): 343, 700. Egoist, 5 ('18): 60. Nation, 111 ('20): 509. Poetry, 9 ('16): 99; 10 ('17): 162; 13 ('18): 102; 14 ('19): 152; 15 ('20): 283; 17 ('21): 220. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1920.

+"Henry G. Aikman" (Harold H. Armstrong)+--novelist. Born in 1879. His books dealing with the psychology of the young man have attracted attention.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Groper. 1919. Zell. 1921.

For reviews, see _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1921.

+Zoë Akins+ (Missouri, 1886)--dramatist.

Attracted attention by her _Papa_, 1913, produced, 1919. Followed up this success by _Déclassée_, also produced 1919 (quoted with illustrations in _Current Opinion_, 68 ['20]: 187); and _Daddy's Gone A-Hunting_, produced 1921.

For complete bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+Mrs. Richard Aldington+ (Hilda Doolittle, "H.D.")--poet.

Born at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1886. Studied at Bryn Mawr, 1904-5, but ill health compelled her to give up college work. In 1911, she went abroad and remained there. In 1913, she married Richard Aldington, the English poet (cf. Manly and Rickert, _Contemporary British Poetry_).

"H.D.'s" work is commonly regarded as the most perfect embodiment of the Imagist theory.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sea Garden. 1916. Hymen. 1921. Also in: Des Imagistes. 1914. Some Imagist Poets. 1915, 1916. The Egoist. (_Passim._)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Lowell. Untermeyer.

Bookm. (Lond.) 51 ('17): 132. Chapbook, 2 ('20): No. 9, p. 22. (Flint.) Dial, 72 ('22): 203. (May Sinclair.) Egoist, 2 ('15): 72 (Flint); 88 (May Sinclair). Little Review, 5 ('18): Dec., p. 14. (Pound.) Lond. Times, Oct. 5, 1916: 479. Poetry, 20 ('20): 333. Poetry Journal, 7 ('17): 171.

+James Lane Allen+--novelist.

Born near Lexington, Kentucky, 1849, of Scotch-Irish Revolutionary ancestry. A.B., A.M., Transylvania University; and honorary higher degrees. Taught in various schools and colleges. Since 1886 has given his time entirely to writing. Nature lover. Describes the Kentucky life that he knows.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Flute and Violin and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances. 1891. The Blue Grass Region of Kentucky and Other Kentucky Articles. 1892. John Gray--a Novel. 1893. *A Kentucky Cardinal. 1895. Aftermath. 1896. A Summer in Arcady. 1896. The Choir Invisible. 1897. (Novel; play, 1899.) Two Gentlemen of Kentucky. 1899. The Reign of Law. A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields. 1900. *The Mettle of the Pasture. 1903. The Bride of the Mistletoe. 1909. The Doctor's Christmas Eve. 1910. The Heroine in Bronze, or A Portrait of a Girl. 1912. The Last Christmas Tree. 1914. The Sword of Youth. 1915. A Cathedral Singer. 1916. The Kentucky Warbler. 1918. The Emblems of Fidelity. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Harkins. Pattee. Toulmin.

Acad. 59 ('00): 35; 76 ('09): 800; 88 ('15): 234. Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 350, 374. Bookm. 32 ('10-11): 360, 640. Cur. Lit. 29 ('00): 147; 35 ('03): 129 (portrait). Lamp, 27 ('03): 117, 119 (portrait). Mentor, 6 ('18): 2 (portrait). Outlook, 96 ('10): 811.

+Sherwood Anderson+--short-story writer, novelist.

Born at Camden, Ohio, 1876. Of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Father a journeyman harness-maker. Public school education. At the age of sixteen or seventeen came to Chicago and worked four or five years as a laborer. Soldier in the Spanish-American War. Later, in the advertising business.

In 1921, received the prize of $2,000 offered by _The Dial_ to further the work of the American author considered to be most promising.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. The autobiographical element in Mr. Anderson's work is marked and should never be forgotten in judging his work. The conventional element is easily discoverable as patched on, particularly in the long books.

2. To realize the qualities that make some critics regard Mr. Anderson as perhaps our most promising novelist, examples should be noted of the following qualities which he possesses to a striking degree: (1) independence of literary traditions and methods; (2) a keen eye for details; (3) a passionate desire to interpret life; (4) a strong sense of the value of individual lives of little seeming importance.

3. Are Mr. Anderson's defects due to the limitations of his experience, or do you notice certain temperamental defects which he is not likely to outgrow?

4. Mr. Anderson's experiments in form are interesting to study. Compare the prosiness of his verse with his efforts to use poetic cadence in _The Triumph of the Egg_. Does it suggest to you the possibility of developing a form intermediate between prose and free verse?

5. Does Mr. Anderson succeed best as novelist or as short-story writer? Why?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Windy McPherson's Son. 1916. (Novel.) Marching Men. 1917. (Novel.) Mid-American Chants. 1918. (Poems.) Winesburg, Ohio. 1919. Poor White. 1920. (Novel.) The Triumph of the Egg. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 45 ('17): 302 (portrait), 307. Dial, 72 ('22): 29, 79. Freeman, 2 ('21) 1403; 4 ('21): 281. New Repub. 9 ('17): 333; 24 ('20): 330; 28 ('21): 383. New Statesman, 8 ('17): 330. Poetry, 12 ('18): 155. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1920, 1921.

+Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews+--(+Mrs. William Shankland Andrews+)--short-story writer, novelist.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*The Perfect Tribute. 1906. The Militants. 1907. *The Lifted Bandage. 1910. The Counsel Assigned. 1912. The Marshal. 1912. The Three Things. 1915. Joy in the Morning. 1919. His Soul Goes Marching On. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 27 ('08): 155. Nation, 85 ('07): 58. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1912, 1915, 1919.

+Mary Antin (Mrs. Amadeus W. Grabau)+--writer.

Born at Polotzk, Russia, 1881. Came to America in 1894. Educated in American schools. Studied at Teachers' College, Columbia, 1901-2, and at Barnard College, 1902-4.

Her second book attracted attention for its fresh and sympathetic treatment of the experiences of immigrants coming to this country.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

From Polotzk to Boston. 1899. *The Promised Land. 1912. They Who Knock at Our Gates. 1914.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Acad. 83 ('12): 637. Am. M. 77 ('14): Mar., p. 64 (portrait). Bookm. 35 ('12): 584. J. Educ. 81 ('15): 91. Lond. Times, Oct. 10, 1912: 420. Outlook, 104 ('13): 473 (portrait).

+Walter Conrad Arensberg+--poet.

Illustrates in his _Poems_, 1914, and _Idols_, 1916, conversion from the old forms of verse to the new. Cf. also _Others_, 1916.

For studies, cf. Untermeyer; also _Dial_, 69 ('20): 61 _Poetry_, 8 ('16): 208.

+Gertrude Franklin Atherton (Mrs. George H. Bowen Atherton)+--novelist.

Born at San Francisco, 1859. Great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin. Educated in private schools. Has lived much abroad.

Mrs. Atherton's work is very uneven, but is interesting as reflecting different aspects of social and political life in this country.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Doomswoman. 1892. Patience Sparhawk and Her Times. 1897. *American Wives and English Husbands. 1898. (Revised edition, 1919; under the title _Transplanted_.) The Californians. 1898. *Senator North. 1900. The Aristocrats. 1901. *The Conqueror. 1902. The Splendid Idle Forties. 1902. Rezanov. 1906. *Ancestors. 1907. Perch of the Devil. 1914. California--an Intimate History. 1914. The White Morning. 1918. Sisters-in-law. 1921. Sleeping Fires. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cooper. Courtney, W.L. The Feminine Note in Fiction. 1904. Halsey. (Women.) Harkins. (Women.) Underwood.

Bookm. 12 ('01): 541, 542 (portrait); 30 ('09): 356. Forum, 58 ('17): 585.

+Mary Hunter Austin (Mrs. Stafford W. Austin)+--novelist, dramatist.

Born at Carlinville, Illinois, 1868. At the age of nineteen went to live in California. B.S., Blackburn University, 1888. Lived on the edge of the Mohave Desert where she is said to have worked like an Indian woman, housekeeping and gardening. Studied the desert, its form, its weather, its lights, its plants. Also studied Indian lore extensively, contributing the chapter on Aboriginal Literature to the _Cambridge History of American Literature_ (IV [Later National Literature, III], 610ff.).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Land of Little Rain. 1903. *The Basket Woman: Fanciful Tales for Children. 1904. Isidro. 1905. The Flock. 1906. Santa Lucia. 1908. Lost Borders. 1909. *The Arrow Maker. 1911. (Play.) (Also in _Drama_, 1915.) *A Woman of Genius. 1912. The Green Bough. 1913. The Lovely Lady. 1913. Love and the Soul-Maker. 1914. The Man Jesus. 1915. The Ford. 1917. Outland. 1919. (Originally published under the pseudonym, "Gordon Stairs," London, 1910.) No. 26 Jayne Street. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Overton.

Am. M. 72 ('11): 178 (portrait). Bookm. 35 ('12): 586 (portrait). Cur. Lit. 53 ('12): 698 (portrait.) Freeman, 1 ('20): 311. New Repub. 24 ('20): 151. R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 241 (portrait). Review, 3 ('20): 73. Sunset, 43 ('19): 49 (portrait).

+Irving (Addison) Bacheller+ (New York, 1859)--novelist.

His outstanding books are:

Eben Holden. 1900. A Man for the Ages. 1919. (Lincoln, the hero.)

For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon)+--novelist.

Born at Stamford, Connecticut, 1876. A.B., Smith College, 1898.

Mrs. Bacon has made a special study of child life.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Smith College Stories. 1900. The Imp and the Angel. 1901. Fables for the Fair. 1901. The Madness of Philip. 1902. Middle Aged Love Stories. 1903. *Memoirs of a Baby. 1904. The Domestic Adventurers. 1907. *Biography of a Boy. 1910. While Caroline Was Growing. 1911. Margarita's Soul. 1909. (Under the pseudonym "Ingraham Lovell.") Open Market. 1915. When Binks Came. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Am. M. 69 ('10): 765, 766 (portrait). Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 191 (portrait). Bookm. 27 ('08): 159. Critic, 40 ('02): 332 (portrait), 335. Outlook, 78 ('04): 288 (portrait).

+Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson")+--man of letters.

Born at Lansing, Michigan, 1870. B.S., Michigan Agricultural College, 1889. Studied law and literature at University of Michigan; LL.D., 1917. On the _Chicago Record_, 1892-7. Managing editor of McClure's Syndicate, 1897-8, and associate editor of _McClure's Magazine_, 1899-1905. On the _American Magazine_, 1906-15. Director of Press Bureau of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris, 1919.

His studies of country life under the pseudonym "David Grayson" are widely popular.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adventures in Contentment. 1907. Adventures in Friendship. 1910. The Friendly Road. 1913. Hempfield. 1915. Great Possessions. 1917.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Acad. 86 ('14): 137. Am. M. 78 ('14)138. Bookm. 43 ('16): 1 (portrait), 394. Bookm. (Lond.) 39 ('11): 290; 47 ('14): 107. McClure's, 24 ('04): 108, 110 (portrait).

+John Kendrick Bangs+ (New York, 1862-1922)--humorist.

Published some sixty volumes of prose sketches, verses, stories, and plays, most of which belong to the nineteenth century. Characteristic volumes are:

Coffee and Repartee. 1893. A House Boat on the Styx. 1895. The Bycyclers and Other Farces. 1896. A Rebellious Heroine. 1896. Alice in Blunderland. 1907. Autobiography of Methuselah. 1909. The Foothills of Parnassus. 1914.

For complete bibliography, cf. _Who's Who in America_.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Halsey. Harkins.

Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 183 (portrait), 208. Bookm. 15 ('02): 412 (portrait). Critic, 42 ('03): 105 (portrait). Harp. W. 46 ('02): 891; 51 ('07): 23, 28. (Portraits.)

+Rex Ellingwood Beach+ (Michigan, 1877)--novelist.

Writer of novels of adventure, mainly about Alaska. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+(Charles) William Beebe+--Nature writer.

Born at Brooklyn, 1877. B.S., Columbia, 1898; post-graduate work, 1898-9. Honorary Curator of Ornithology, New York Zoölogical Society since 1899; director of the British Guiana Zoölogical Station. Has traveled extensively in Asia, South America, and Mexico, especially, for purposes of observation.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Although Mr. Beebe is preëminently an ornithologist, he belongs to literature by reason of the volumes of nature studies listed below. A comparison of his books with those of the English ornithologist, W.H. Hudson (cf. Manly and Rickert, _Contemporary British Literature_) is illuminative of the merits of both.

2. Another interesting comparison may be made between Mr. Beebe's descriptions of the jungle in _Jungle Peace_ and H.M. Tomlinson's in _Sea and Jungle_ (cf. Manly and Rickert, _op. cit._).

3. An analysis of the use of suggestion in appeal to the different senses brings out one of the main sources of Mr. Beebe's charm as a writer.

4. Read aloud several fine passages to observe the prose rhythms.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Two Bird Lovers in Mexico. 1905. The Log of the Sun. 1906. Our Search for a Wilderness. 1910. (With Mrs. Beebe.) Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana. 1917. *Jungle Peace. 1918. Edge of the Jungle. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Nation, 106 ('18): 213. Science, n.s. 50 ('19): 473. Spec. 95 ('05): 1128. Travel, 38 ('21): 17 (portrait). See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1921.

+David Belasco+--dramatist.

Born at San Francisco, 1859. Stage manager of various theatres and producer of many plays. Owner and manager of Belasco Theatre, New York City.

His most successful recent play, _The Return of Peter Grimm_ (1911), is printed by Baker, _Modern American Plays_, 1920, and by Moses, _Representative Plays by American Dramatists_, 1918-21, III. For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 763.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players. 1916. Moses. Winter, William. Life of David Belasco. 1918. Acad. 83 ('12): 673. Nation, 100 ('10): 525. New Repub. 8 ('16): 155. Theatre Arts M. 5 ('21): 259=Outlook, 127 ('21): 418 (portrait).

+Stephen Vincent Benét+--poet, novelist.

Born at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1898; brother of William Rose Benét (q.v.) Graduate of Yale, 1919.

Mr. Benét's work at once attracted attention by its qualities of exuberance and fancy. In 1921, he shared with Carl Sandburg (q.v.) the prize of the Poetry Society of America.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Five Men and Pompey. 1915. The Drug Shop. 1917. Young Adventure. 1918. Heavens and Earth. 1920. The Beginning of Wisdom. 1921. (Novel.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 47 ('18): 558 (Phelps); 54 ('21): 394. Dial, 71 ('21): 597. Poetry, 16 ('20): 53; 20 ('22): 340. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1920, 1921.

+William Rose Benét+--poet.

Born at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, 1886. Ph.B., Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1907. Free lance writer in California 1907-11. Reader for the _Century Magazine_, 1911-18. In 1920, associate editor of the _Literary Review_ of the _New York Evening Post_.

Mr. Benét's verse has attracted attention for its pictorial imagination, vigorous rhythms, and grotesque and lively fancy.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Merchants from Cathay. 1913. The Falconer of God. 1914. The Great White Wall. 1916. The Burglar of the Zodiac. 1918. Perpetual Light. 1919. Moons of Grandeur. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Bookm. 47 ('18): 558; 53 ('21): 168. Dial, 56 ('14): 67. Poetry, 5 ('14): 91; 9 ('17): 322; 12 ('18): 216; 15 ('19): 48. R. of Rs. 51 ('15): 759. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1920.

+Konrad Bercovici+--story writer.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Crimes of Charity. 1917. (With introduction by John Reed.) Dust of New York. 1919. (Short stories.) Ghiza and Other Romances of Gipsy Blood. 1921.

For reviews, see _Book Review Digest_, 1917, 1919, 1921.

+Edwin (August) Björkman+--critic.

Born at Stockholm, Sweden, 1866. Educated in Stockholm high school. Clerk, actor, and journalist in Sweden, 1881-91. Came to America, 1891. On staffs of St. Paul and Minneapolis papers, 1892-7; on the _New York Sun_ and _New York Times_, 1897-1905. On the editorial staff of the _New York Evening Post_, 1906. Department editor of the _World's Work_ and editor of the _Modern Drama Series_, 1912--.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Is There Anything New Under the Sun? 1911. Gleams: A Fragmentary Interpretation of Man and His World. 1912. Voices of To-morrow. 1913. The Soul of a Child. 1922. (Novel.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cur. Op. 55 ('13): 190 (portrait). R. of Rs. 45 ('12): 115 (portrait). See also _Book Review Digest_, 1913.

+Maxwell Bodenheim+--poet.

Born at Natchez, Mississippi, 1892. Grammar school education. Served in the U.S. Army, 1910-13. Studied law and art in Chicago.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

Mr. Bodenheim gets his effects by his management of detail. For this reason, his use of picture-making words and suggestive phrases offers material for special study. See the _New Republic_, 13 ('17): 211, for his own statement of his creed.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Minna and Myself. 1918. Advice. 1920. Introducing Irony. 1922. Also in: Poetry. (_Passim._) The Little Review. (_Passim._)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Dial, 66 ('19): 356; 69 ('20): 645. Poetry, 13 ('19): 342. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.