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STORY

Committee: Gerald H. Carson, Chairman; Henry S. Canby, Ellis Parker Butler, Maxwell Aley, Stephen Vincent Benét.

III: Stories of Ideas (Third Instalment)

MARGARET PRESCOTT MONTAGUE England to America. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE. 1920. The Man from God's Country. DUTTON. 1924.

This winner of an O. Henry prize comes from West Virginia. She was born at White Sulphur Springs on November 29, 1878, and was educated both at home and in private schools. Her published work amounts to some fifteen volumes. Miss Montague still makes her home in White Sulphur Springs. Stories by her are most frequently found in "The Atlantic Monthly", and appear also in "The Delineator" and "The Ladies' Home Journal".

REFERENCES:

The Best Short Stories of 1923.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919.

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS Spread Eagle and Other Stories. SCRIBNER. 1910.

Here is an author with a long list of published books and a breathtaking number of short stories. Gouverneur Morris, great-grandson of Gouverneur Morris, the Revolutionary statesman and United States Senator, was born in New York, February 7, 1876. He received his B.A. degree at Yale in 1898. His first book appeared when he was twenty one. Mr. Morris is well known to the readers of "Cosmopolitan", "The Metropolitan", "The Saturday Evening Post", "Collier's", and "Everybody's".

REFERENCE:

The Best Short Stories of 1924.

MEREDITH NICHOLSON

Best Laid Schemes. SCRIBNER. 1922.

Short story writer, novelist, essayist, poet, and onetime playwright is Meredith Nicholson, who comes from Booth Tarkington's native state. He was born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, December 9, 1866, and was educated in the public schools of Indianapolis. He received an honorary degree at Wabash College in 1901 and from Butler College in 1902, and was given his Litt.D. at Wabash in 1907. Mr. Meredith, a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, is probably best remembered as the author of that mystery novel, "The House of a Thousand Candles". His list of published works is impressive. "Good Housekeeping", "Collier's", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The Saturday Evening Post", "The Metropolitan", and "The Ladies' Home Journal" have at various times printed his short stories.

JAMES OPPENHEIM

James Oppenheim comes from St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was born May 24, 1882. For two years he was a student at Columbia University. In 1921 he married Gertrude S. Gertrude, the painter and novelist. His accomplishments are

varied. As a poet he is already recognized. He has taught at the Hebrew Technical School for Girls in New York. He was at one time editor of "The Seven Arts". Short stories, articles, and poems by him have appeared in "The American", Hearst's", "Harper's", "The New Republic", "The Freeman", and "The Century". His home is in Washington Square in New York City

MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Temperamental People. DORAN. 1924. More Tish. DORAN. 1921.

Mrs. Rinehart needs no introduction to short story readers. The facts of her life have been published so many times that it is almost superfluous to say here that she was born in Pittsburg August 12, 1876; after being graduated from high school took the training school course for nurses at the Pittsburg Homeopathic Hospital; was married on April 21, 1896, to Dr. Stanley Marshall Rinehart; has three sons; and is the author of plays, novels, and innumerable love stories, mystery stories, and humorous stories. Recently she has contributed almost exclusively to "The Saturday Evening Post", but her stories may also be found in "Munsey's", "Collier's", and "Cosmopolitan".

ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK

Christmas Roses. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN. 1920.

Anne Douglas Sedgwick is the author of the season's best seller and most popular novel, "The Little French Girl". She was born in Englewood, New Jersey, March 28, 1873, and was educated at home by a governess. At the age of nine she left America and has lived abroad ever since, chiefly in Paris and London, where she acquired the atmosphere for her stories and novels. She is an artist also, having studied painting in Paris and exhibited at Champs de Mars. In 1908 she married Basil de Selincourt of Kingham, Oxon, England, where she is now living. She is best known to the readers of "The Atlantic Monthly" and "The Century".

ELSIE SINGMASTER

Gettysburg. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN. 1913.

Elsie Singmaster, the widow of Harold Lewars, is a thorough Pennsylvanian. She was born in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1879, and is the daughter of Reverend John Alden Singmaster, with whom she lives on the campus of the theological seminary in Gettysburg. She received her Litt.D. at Pennsylvania College in 1916. Her stories are to be found in "The Atlantic Monthly", "The Woman's Home Companion", "The Outlook", "Harper's", "The Century" and "Scribner's".

REFERENCES:

The Best Short Stories of 1915. The Best Short Stories of 1916. (To be continued in June)

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Ph.D., is one of the series of "Studies in History, Economics and Public Law" edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University. Dr. Gulick does not recount personal experiences in a steel mill, as has been done by other writers. He prepared his material from interviews with officials of the Steel Corporation, whose cooperation, incidentally, was not entirely wholehearted after the first proof of the work was submitted. The final form of the work therefore shows gaps which represent the subsequent refusal of Steel Corporation officials to bring up to date the data they had previously supplied. It is an interesting study on the whole. As may be expected, it deals chiefly with hours of labor, wages, welfare, and the Corporation's attitude toward labor organizations.

Harvey Whitefield Peck, the author of "Taxation and Welfare" (Macmillan), is associate professor of economics in the University of Vermont. His book is an attempt at an impartial and scientific survey of the problem of taxation in its financial and social relations, and its method of treatment is based on the fact that most current discussions of taxation in this country are misleading because they consider taxation as a problem apart from the character of the public expenditures for which taxes are raised. The author deals first with the proper field of public expenditure and then with the distribution of the tax burden, and advances the belief that where public money is wisely expended a country can stand a higher tax rate that where money is foolishly spent or wasted; also that higher rates of taxation for higher incomes are justifiable. The constructive suggestions in his closing chapter are logical and original.

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OHN HALL WHEELOCK, American

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lyric poet of note, was born on Long Island, educated at Harvard University and in Europe, and is connected with the firm of Charles Scribner's Sons. His book of verse, "The Black Panther", is well known. IRWIN EDMAN, from whose course on "The Philosophy of Art" this essay of his grew, will next year be granted a year of absence from his teaching duties at Columbia University, and will spend the time at Oxford and in Italy, working on a philosophy book which he has been planning for some time. His "Richard Kane" will be published in January or February of next year, and his book of poems, some time in the early autumn. JESSICA NELSON NORTH is a graduate of the University of Chicago who is well known to readers of the poetry magazines. Her first book of verse, "A Prayer Rug", was published in 1923. She has a small son who, judging from his photograph, is destined to become a sturdy football hero. ROBERT BENCHLEY, like all the best American humorists, plans to spend the summer months in Europe. Undoubtedly he and Mr. and Mrs. Haddock will enjoy the scenery and the art galleries. RICHMOND LATTIMORE is or was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College.

ROBERT FORREST WILSON, a Cleveland newspaper man, is now living in Paris with his wife and daughter (who is attending the Opera Ballet School). He was attached to one of the bureaus in Washington before the war and, later, in the service. Afterward, he collaborated with Mr. Crowell on the six volume history of the war, was sent to Egypt by "McCall's", published a book called "The Living Pageant of the Nile", and will have another this autumn on Paris. ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN is a professor of

English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a well known authority on the drama, the author of numerous published works, the best known of which are perhaps "Representative American Plays" and "Contemporary American Plays", which have been issued in various editions.. CHARLES NORMAN is a youthful American poet of great promise. His first small volume of verse, a long narrative poem of the sea, was issued last year.

HOWARD CORBETT, born in England and educated in Shrewsbury, is now on the staff of the New York "Times". He has been for twenty years in the newspaper world, both editorial and business. At the age of twenty five he was editor of an evening paper, and, invited by Lord Northcliffe, was manager and director of the London "Times" from 1914 to 1922. LAURENCE HARRIS was graduated from Yale University and is now an instructor at Dartmouth College. ELLEN DAY HALE, the niece of Lucretia P. Hale, author of the immortal Peterkins, is the daughter of Dr. Edward Everett Hale. stead of following the literary bent so marked in her family, she became an artist, and was the pupil of William Hunt in his noted Boston class. She afterward worked in Paris and is represented in many collections.

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EARL E. FISK, after his graduation from the University of Wisconsin, intended being a professor of English, but finally decided to become an insurance man instead. This occupation has given him a chance to indulge his hobby of book collecting. He lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and is at present much interested in creating an American interest in the works of Haldane Macfall. Mr. Fisk is at work on a bibliography and a series of articles on Major Macfall whose novel, "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer",