Contemporary American Literature. John Matthews Manly

College. Settlement worker, probation officer of Prison Association of New York, 1903–6. Since 1906, has traveled widely. In Russia and Siberia, 1917–9. Foreign correspondent for different magazines both before and during the War. Socialist.

      Bibliography

       *A Man’s World. 1912.

       Comrade Yetta. 1913.

       The Barbary Coast. 1913. (Travels.)

       The Stranger. 1920.

      Studies and Reviews

       Bookm. 37 (’13): 518 (portrait).

       Cur. Lit. 53 (’12): 698, 699 (portrait).

       New Repub. 21 (’20): 361; 24 (’20): 25.

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

       See also Book Review Digest, 1913, 1916, 1920.

      (Frank) Gelett Burgess (Massachusetts, 1866)—humorist.

      Inventor of the “Goops” and of “Bromide” (Are You a Bromide? 1907). The humor of his illustrations 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 Lass 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 Sunshine. 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.

       Liv. Age, 248 (’06): 188. (W. H. Hudson.)

       Nation, 112 (’21): 531.

       New Repub. 26 (’21): 186.

       No. Am. 214 (’21): 177.

       Outlook, 66 (’00): 351 (portrait); 109 (’15): 224 (portraits); 127 (’21): 580 (portrait), 582; 129 (’21): 344.

       R. of Rs. 63 (’21): 517 (portrait).

       Review, 4 (’21): 338.

      Richard (Eugene) Burton—critic, poet.

      Born at Hartford, Connecticut, 1861. A. B., Trinity College, 1883; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins, 1888. Three years of teaching, editorial work, and travel abroad. Editor of the Hartford Courant, 1890–7. Associate editor of Warner’s Library of the World’s Best Literature, 1897–9. Head of the English department at the University of Minnesota, 1898–1902 and 1906—.

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