Contemporary American Literature Part 15

(4) Is he likely ever to hold the high place in American literature which by some critics is denied him today? If so, on what basis?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Eagle's Shadow. 1904.

The Line of Love. 1905.

Gallantry. 1907.

Chivalry. 1909.

The Cords of Vanity. 1909.

The Soul of Melicent. 1913.

The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck. 1915.

The Certain Hour. 1916.

From the Hidden Way. 1916. (Verse.) The Cream of the Jest. 1917.

Jurgen. 1919.

Beyond Life. 1919. (Essays.) The Cords of Vanity. 1920. (Revised.) Domnei. 1920. (New version of _The Soul of Melicent_.) The Judging of Jurgen. 1920.

Figures of Earth. 1921.

Taboo. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Walpole, Hugh. The Art of James Branch Cabell. 1920.

Ath. 1919, 2: 1339. (Conrad Aiken.) Bookm. 52 ('20): 200.

Cur. Op. 66 ('19): 254; 70 ('21): 537. (Portraits.) Dial, 64 ('18): 392; 66 ('19): 225.

Harp. W. 49 ('05): 1598 (portrait).

Lond. Times, Nov. 24, 1921: 767.

Nation, 111 ('20): 343; 112 ('21): 914. (Carl Van Doren.) New Repub. 26 ('21): 187.

Yale R. n.s. 9 ('20): 684. (Walpole.)

+George Was.h.i.+ngton Cable+--novelist.

Born at New Orleans, 1844. Educated in public schools, but has honorary higher degrees. Served in the Confederate army, 1863-5. Reporter on the New Orleans _Picayune_ and accountant with a firm of cotton factors, 1865-79. Since 1879, has devoted his time to literature.

Mr. Cable became at once famous for his studies of Louisiana life in _Old Creole Days_, and his pictures of this life have given him a permanent place in American literature. His stories should be read in connection with those of Kate Chopin and of Grace King (q.v.).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*Old Creole Days. 1879.

*The Grandissimes. A Story of Creole Life. 1880.

*Madame Delphine. 1881.

The Creoles of Louisiana. 1884.

The Silent South. 1885. (Articles.) Dr. Sevier. 1885.

Bonaventure. A Prose Pastoral of Louisiana. 1888.

Strange True Stories of Louisiana. 1889.

The Negro Question. 1890. (Articles.) John March, Southerner. 1894.

Strong Hearts. 1899.

The Cavalier, 1901.

Bylow Hill. 1902.

Kincaid's Battery. 1908.

Posson Jone and Pere Raphael. 1909.

The Amateur Garden. 1914.

Gideon's Band. 1914.

The Flower of the Chapdelaines. 1918.

*Lovers of Louisiana. 1918.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Harkins.

Pattee.

Toulmin.

Countryside M. 23 ('16): 274 (portrait).

Critic, 47 ('05): 426.

Harp. W. 45 ('01): 1082 (portrait).

Outlook, 69 ('01): 425; 93 ('09): 689. (Portraits.) So. Atlan. Q. 18 ('19): 145.

+Abraham Cahan+--novelist.

Of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry. Became editor of the _Arbeiter Zeitung_, 1891, and of _The Jewish Daily Forward_, 1897. A journalist who has done most of his work in Yiddish, but who has also written one remarkable novel in English: _The Rise of David Levinsky_, 1917.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cambridge.

Van Doren.

Dial, 63 ('17): 521.

Nation, 105 ('17): 432.

New Repub. 14 ('17): 31.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917.

+(William) Bliss Carman+--poet.

Born at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 1861. His ancestors lived in Connecticut at the time of the Revolution. A.B., University of New Brunswick, 1881; A.M., 1884. Studied at the University of Edinburgh, 1882-3, and at Harvard, 1886-8. Studied law two years. LL.D., University of New Brunswick, 1906. Came to live in the United States, 1889. Has been teacher, editor, and civil engineer.

In collaboration with Mary Perry King, Mr. Carman has produced several poem-dances (_Daughters of Dawn_, 1913, and _Earth Deities_, 1914), which it is interesting to compare with Mr. Lindsay's development of the idea of the poem-game.

Mr. Carman's most admired work is to be found in the _Vagabondia_ volumes, in three of which he collaborated with Richard Hovey (1894, 1896, 1900). His _Collected Poems_ were published in 1905, and his _Echoes from Vagabondia_, 1912.