Contemporary American Literature Part 11

Poetry, 13 ('19): 342.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.

+Gamaliel Bradford+--man of letters.

Born at Boston, 1863. Studied at Harvard, 1882; no degree, because of ill health. Has confined his attention almost entirely to literature since 1886. Specializes in character portraits.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

Types of American Character. 1895.

A Pageant of Life. 1904.

The Private Tutor. 1904.

Between Two Masters. 1906.

Matthew Porter. 1908.

Lee, the American. 1912.

Confederate Portraits. 1914.

Union Portraits. 1916.

Portraits of Women. 1916.

A Naturalist of Souls. 1917.

Portraits of American Women. 1919.

The Prophet of Joy. 1920. (Poems.) Shadow Verses. 1920.

American Portraits, 1875-1900. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 41 ('15): 586 (portrait); 52 ('20): 170.

Nation, 112 ('21): 86.

New Repub. 9 ('16): supp. p. 3.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1920.

+George H. Broadhurst+ (1866)--dramatist.

Of his plays the following have been published:

What Happened to Jones. 1897.

The Man of the Hour. 1908.

Why Smith Left Home. 1912.

The Law of the Land. 1914.

Innocent. 1914.

Bought and Paid for. 1916.

For bibliography of unpublished plays, see _Cambridge_, III (IV), 773.

+Alter Brody+--poet.

Born in Russia, 1895, of a Russian-Jewish family. Came to New York when he was eight years old. Very little education. Translated for Jewish and American newspapers. His first poems appeared in _The Seven Arts_ (cf.

James Oppenheim).

His one book, _A Family Alb.u.m_, 1918, is interesting for its realistic pictures of New York as seen through the temperament of a Russian Jew.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Poetry, 14 ('19): 280.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918.

+Charles (Stephen) Brooks+--essayist.

Born in 1878. Graduate of Yale. Business man in Cleveland. Essay writing an avocation.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Journeys to Bagdad. 1915.

"There's Pippins and Cheese to Come." 1917.

Chimney-Pot Papers. 1919.

Luca Sarto. 1920. (Historical novel.) Hints to Pilgrims. 1921.

Frightful Plays! 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 47 ('18): 439 (portrait).

Nation, 109 ('19): 178.

Review, 2 ('20): 463.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920.

+Van Wyck Brooks+--critic.

Born at Plainfield, New Jersey, 1886. A.B., Harvard, 1907. Taught at Leland Stanford, 1911-3. With the Century Company since 1915.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Wine of the Puritans. 1909.

The Malady of the Ideal. 1913.