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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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",

is to be published in the autumn. VIRGINIA RICE is an American journalist who has spent much time in Europe. HENRY E. HARMAN was for many years publisher of a trade paper in the south. He lives part of the year in Atlanta, Georgia, and has a winter home in Florida. He is now practically retired from business and devotes his time to writing. His poems are well known, and he is to issue a new volume, "The History of Famous Songs and Poems". EDWARD LAROCQUE TINKER is an artist and author who divides his time between New York City and New Orleans. He is author of the recent biography on Lafcadio Hearn so much discussed by critics and public. GERALD HEWES CARSON, a young middle westerner residing in or about New York City, is rapidly gaining recognition as a critic of sound judgment.

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MARION STROBEL, whose new volume of verse "Once in a Blue Moon" is reviewed in another part of this month's BOOKMAN, is a Chicago girl, associate of Miss Monroe on "Poetry". GRANT OVERTON, fiction editor of "Collier's", is a well known critic and novelist. MYLA JO CLOSSER is a journalist and publicity woman residing in New York City. BEATRICE E. HARMON lives Seattle, Washington. Her first volume of verse was one of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. LOUIS BROMFIELD has finished a new novel, and is engaged in putting the finishing touches on his dramatization of "The Green Bay Tree". He expects to spend some time in Europe next season. PERCY MACKAYE, well known poet, writer of plays and pageants, has made a study of

American folk lore. His own "Tall Tales from the Kentucky Mountains" will be published this autumn. KATHLEEN NORRIS, the famous novelist, has just returned to California, where she and Charles Norris have a ranch.

ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE, after a brief acquaintance with the motion picture world, has returned to literature, and is again writing his articles, reviews, and sketches with verve and charm. JOSEPH COLLINS is hard at work on several projected books, one of which will be "The Doctor Looks at Biography". JAMES MELVIN LEE, head of the Department of Journalism at New York University, is a well known editor and newspaperman. He has edited magazines as diverse as "Judge" and "Administration" (of which he is the present chief), and has written and edited many books. FLOYD DELL, the young American novelist, is in Europe this summer. His book, "This Mad Ideal", was considered by many critics his best, and a new story, "Runaway", said to be in an entirely different mood from his other novels, is on the autumn lists. ALICE ROHE, dramatic critic for the United Press, has made a long study of Italy and the Italians, and is an international newspaper woman of ability and reputation. MICHAEL JOSEPH, of Messrs. Curtis Brown in London, is a brilliant young man. His "Short Story Writing for Profit" and "Journalism for Profit", well known in England, will soon be followed by "The Commercial Side of Literature". MAXWELL BODENHEIM is novelist as well as poet. His latest prose work is "Replenishing Jessica".