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(IV [Later National Literature, III], 610ff.).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Land of Little Rain. 1903. *The Basket Woman: Fanciful Tales for
Children. 1904. Isidro. 1905. The Flock. 1906. Santa Lucia. 1908. Lost
Borders. 1909. *The Arrow Maker. 1911. (Play.) (Also in Drama,
1915.) *A Woman of Genius. 1912. The Green Bough. 1913. The
Lovely Lady. 1913. Love and the Soul-Maker. 1914. The Man Jesus.

1915. The Ford. 1917. Outland. 1919. (Originally published under the
pseudonym, "Gordon Stairs," London, 1910.) No. 26 Jayne Street.
1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Overton.
Am. M. 72 ('11): 178 (portrait). Bookm. 35 ('12): 586 (portrait). Cur.
Lit. 53 ('12): 698 (portrait.) Freeman, 1 ('20): 311. New Repub. 24 ('20):
151. R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 241 (portrait). Review, 3 ('20): 73. Sunset, 43
('19): 49 (portrait).

+Irving (Addison) Bacheller+ (New York, 1859)--novelist.
His outstanding books are:
Eben Holden. 1900. A Man for the Ages. 1919. (Lincoln, the hero.)
For bibliography, see Who's Who in America.

+Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon)+--novelist.
Born at Stamford, Connecticut, 1876. A.B., Smith College, 1898.
Mrs. Bacon has made a special study of child life.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Smith College Stories. 1900. The Imp and the Angel. 1901. Fables for
the Fair. 1901. The Madness of Philip. 1902. Middle Aged Love
Stories. 1903. *Memoirs of a Baby. 1904. The Domestic Adventurers.
1907. *Biography of a Boy. 1910. While Caroline Was Growing. 1911.
Margarita's Soul. 1909. (Under the pseudonym "Ingraham Lovell.")
Open Market. 1915. When Binks Came. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Am. M. 69 ('10): 765, 766 (portrait). Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 191 (portrait).
Bookm. 27 ('08): 159. Critic, 40 ('02): 332 (portrait), 335. Outlook, 78
('04): 288 (portrait).

+Ray Stannard Baker ("David Grayson")+--man of letters.
Born at Lansing, Michigan, 1870. B.S., Michigan Agricultural College,
1889. Studied law and literature at University of Michigan; LL.D.,
1917. On the Chicago Record, 1892-7. Managing editor of McClure's
Syndicate, 1897-8, and associate editor of McClure's Magazine,
1899-1905. On the American Magazine, 1906-15. Director of Press
Bureau of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris, 1919.
His studies of country life under the pseudonym "David Grayson" are
widely popular.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Adventures in Contentment. 1907. Adventures in Friendship. 1910. The
Friendly Road. 1913. Hempfield. 1915. Great Possessions. 1917.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Acad. 86 ('14): 137. Am. M. 78 ('14)138. Bookm. 43 ('16): 1 (portrait),
394. Bookm. (Lond.) 39 ('11): 290; 47 ('14): 107. McClure's, 24 ('04):
108, 110 (portrait).

+John Kendrick Bangs+ (New York, 1862-1922)--humorist.
Published some sixty volumes of prose sketches, verses, stories, and
plays, most of which belong to the nineteenth century. Characteristic
volumes are:
Coffee and Repartee. 1893. A House Boat on the Styx. 1895. The

Bycyclers and Other Farces. 1896. A Rebellious Heroine. 1896. Alice
in Blunderland. 1907. Autobiography of Methuselah. 1909. The
Foothills of Parnassus. 1914.
For complete bibliography, cf. Who's Who in America.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Halsey. Harkins.
Bk. Buyer, 20 ('00): 183 (portrait), 208. Bookm. 15 ('02): 412 (portrait).
Critic, 42 ('03): 105 (portrait). Harp. W. 46 ('02): 891; 51 ('07): 23, 28.
(Portraits.)

+Rex Ellingwood Beach+ (Michigan, 1877)--novelist.
Writer of novels of adventure, mainly about Alaska. For bibliography,
see Who's Who in America.

+(Charles) William Beebe+--Nature writer.
Born at Brooklyn, 1877. B.S., Columbia, 1898; post-graduate work,
1898-9. Honorary Curator of Ornithology, New York Zoölogical
Society since 1899; director of the British Guiana Zoölogical Station.
Has traveled extensively in Asia, South America, and Mexico,
especially, for purposes of observation.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. Although Mr. Beebe is preëminently an ornithologist, he belongs to
literature by reason of the volumes of nature studies listed below. A
comparison of his books with those of the English ornithologist, W.H.
Hudson (cf. Manly and Rickert, Contemporary British Literature) is
illuminative of the merits of both.
2. Another interesting comparison may be made between Mr. Beebe's

descriptions of the jungle in Jungle Peace and H.M. Tomlinson's in Sea
and Jungle (cf. Manly and Rickert, op. cit.).
3. An analysis of the use of suggestion in appeal to the different senses
brings out one of the main sources of Mr. Beebe's charm as a writer.
4. Read aloud several fine passages to observe the prose rhythms.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Two Bird Lovers in Mexico. 1905. The Log of the Sun. 1906. Our
Search for a Wilderness. 1910. (With Mrs. Beebe.) Tropical Wild Life
in British Guiana. 1917. *Jungle Peace. 1918. Edge of the Jungle.
1921.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Nation, 106 ('18): 213. Science, n.s. 50 ('19): 473. Spec. 95 ('05): 1128.
Travel, 38 ('21): 17 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1918,
1921.

+David Belasco+--dramatist.
Born at San Francisco, 1859. Stage manager of various theatres and
producer of many plays. Owner and manager of Belasco Theatre, New
York City.
His most successful recent play, The Return of Peter Grimm (1911), is
printed by Baker, Modern American Plays,