Contemporary American Literature Part 19

Miss Crothers directs her plays and sometimes acts in them.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Criss Cross. 1904.

The Rector. 1906.

A Man's World. 1915.

The Three of Us. 1916.

The Herfords. (Quinn, _Representative American Plays_, under the t.i.tle _He and She_, 1917.)

For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 765.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Eaton, W.P. At the New Theatre. 1910.

Moses.

New Repub. 9 ('16): 217.

Touchstone, 4 ('18): 25 (portrait).

World Today, 15 ('08): 729 (portrait).

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915.

+Samuel McChord Crothers+--essayist.

Born at Oswego, Illinois, 1857. A.B., Wittenberg College, 1873, Princeton, 1874. Studied at Union Theological Seminary, 1874-7, and at Harvard Divinity School, 1881-2. Higher honorary degrees. Ordained Presbyterian minister, 1877. Pastorates in Nevada and California. Became a Unitarian, 1882. Pastor in Brattleboro, Vermont, 1882-6; in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1886-94; and of the First Church, Cambridge, since 1894.

Preacher to Harvard University.

Dr. Crothers's essays are rich with suave and scholarly humor, and are written in a style suggestive of Lamb's.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Gentle Reader. 1903.

The Understanding Heart. 1903.

The Pardoner's Wallet. 1905.

The Endless Life. 1905.

By the Chrismas Fire. 1908.

Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Fellow Boarders. 1909.

Among Friends. 1910.

Humanly Speaking. 1912.

Three Lords of Destiny. 1913.

Meditations on Votes for Women. 1914.

The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord. 1916.

The Dame School of Experience. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Pattee.

Bookm. 32 ('11): 631.

Critic, 48 ('06): 200 (portrait).

Cur. Op. 63 ('17): 406 (portrait).

Outlook, 102 ('12): 645 (portrait), 648.

So. Atlan. Q. 8 ('09): 150.

+James Oliver Curwood+ (Michigan, 1878)--novelist.

His material deals with primitive life in Canada. For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+Thomas Augustine Daly+--poet.

Born at Philadelphia, 1871. Left college without a degree. Honorary higher degrees. In 1889 became a newspaper man, and since 1891 has been connected as reviewer, editorial writer, and "columnist" with Philadelphia newspapers; a.s.sociate editor of the _Evening Ledger_, 1915-8.

Mr. Daly has written good poetry in English, but is best known for the dialect verses which he has published in the columns edited by him. His most popular verses are in the Irish and Italian dialects.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Canzoni. 1906.

Carmina. 1909.

Madrigali. 1912.

Songs of Wedlock. 1916.

McAroni Ballads. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Am. M. 70 ('10): 750 (portrait); 89 ('20): June, p. 16.

Dublin R. 155 (4 s., 46) ('14): 116.

Outlook, 103 ('13): 261.

Poetry, 16 ('20): 278.

+Olive Tilford Dargan (Mrs. Pegram Dargan)+--poet, dramatist.

Born in Kentucky. Educated at the University of Nashville and at Radcliffe. Taught in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Canada until she married. Traveled abroad, 1910-14. Winner of $500 prize offered by the Southern Society of New York for best book by Southern writer, 1916.