Contemporary American Literature Part 13

R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 244 (portrait).

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1913, 1916, 1920.

+(Frank) Gelett Burgess+ (Ma.s.sachusetts, 1866)--humorist.

Inventor of the "Goops" and of "Bromide" (_Are You a Bromide?_ 1907). The humor of his ill.u.s.trations contributes greatly to the success of his writing. For bibliography, cf. _Who's Who in America_.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 53 ('21): 488.

Overland, n.s. 60 ('12): 377.

R. of Rs. 35 ('07): 116 (portrait).

+Frances Hodgson Burnett (Mrs. Stephen Townsend)+--novelist.

Born at Manchester, England, 1849, but went to live at Knoxville, Tennessee, 1865. She began to write for magazines in 1867.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

That La.s.s o' Lowrie's. 1877.

Through One Administration. 1883.

Little Lord Fauntleroy. 1886. (Dramatized.) Editha's Burglar. 1888.

The One I Knew the Best of All. 1893. (Autobiographical.) A Lady of Quality. 1896. (Dramatized; with Stephen Townsend.) T. Tembaron. 1913.

The White People. 1917.

The Head of the House of Coombe. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Halsey. (Women.) Harkins. (Women.) Overton.

Am. M. 70 ('10): 748 (portrait).

Bookm. 20 ('04): 276 (portrait).

Cur. Lit. 37 ('04): 321 (portrait).

Good Housekeeping, 74 ('22): Feb., p. 27 (portrait).

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915-1917.

+John Burroughs+--Nature writer, essayist, poet.

Born at Roxbury, New York, 1837. Academy education with honorary higher degrees. Taught for about eight years; clerk in the Treasury, 1864-73; national bank examiner, 1873-84. From 1874 lived on a farm, after 1884 dividing his time between market gardening and literature. He died in 1921.

Mr. Burroughs' cottage in the woods not far from West Park, New York, appropriately called "Slabsides," has become famous and an effort is being made to keep it for the nation.

Mr. Burroughs continued to write and publish to the time of his death.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person. 1867.

Wake Robin. 1871.

Winter Suns.h.i.+ne. 1875.

Birds and Poets. 1877.

Locusts and Wild Honey. 1879.

Pepacton. 1881.

Fresh Fields. 1884.

Signs and Seasons. 1886.

Indoor Studies. 1889.

Riverby. 1894.

Whitman, a Study. 1896.

The Light of Day. 1900.

Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers. 1900.

Literary Values. 1904.

Far and Near. 1904.

Ways of Nature. 1905.

Bird and Bough. 1906. (Poems.) Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt. 1907.

Leaf and Tendril. 1908.

Time and Change. 1912.

The Summit of the Years. 1913.

The Breath of Life. 1915.

Under the Apple Trees. 1916.

Field and Study. 1919.

Accepting the Universe. 1920.

My Boyhood: An Autobiography. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Barrus, Clara. Our Friend John Burroughs. 1914.

---- ---- John Burroughs. Boy and Man. 1920.

Halsey.

James, Henry. Views and Reviews. 1908.

Loach, De, R.J.H. Rambles with John Burroughs. 1912.

Sharp, Dallas Lore. The Seer of Slabsides. 1921.

Atlan. 106 ('10): 631; 128 ('21): 517.

Bookm. 49 ('19): 389.

Cent. 63 ('02): 860 (poem by Edwin Markam to John Burroughs); 80 ('10): 521; 101 ('21): 619; 102 ('21): 731. (Hamlin Garland.) Craftsman, 8 ('05): 564; 22 ('12): 240, 357, 525, 635; 27 ('15): 590.

Critic, 47 ('05): 101 (portraits).

Cur. Lit. 45 ('08): 60; 49 ('10): 680; 50 ('11): 413 (portraits).

Cur. Op. 70 ('21): 644 (portrait), 667; 71 ('21): 74 Dial, 32 ('02): 7.

Edin. R. 208 ('08): 343.

Lit. Digest, 48 ('14): 1441; 69 ('21): Apr. 16, p. 23.