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Althea Thurston, Mackaye, Eugene Pillot, Bosworth Crocker, Kreymborg, Paul Greene, Arthur Hopkins, Jeannette Marks, Oscar M. Wolff, David Pinski, Beulah Bornstead.)
Mayorga, Margaret Gardner. Representative One-Act Plays by American Authors. Little, Brown, 1919. (Full bibliographies). (Mary Aldis, Cook and Glaspell, Sada Cowan, Bosworth Crocker, Elva De Pue, Beulah Marie Dix, Hortense Flexner, Esther E. Galbraith, Alice Gerstenberg, Doris F. Halnan, Ben Hecht and Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, Phoebe Hoffman, Kreymborg, Mackaye, Marks, Middleton, O'Neill, Eugene Pillot, Frances Pemberton Spenser, Thomas Wood Stevens and Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, Walker, Wellman, Wilde, Oscar M. Wolff.)
More Portmanteau Plays. Stewart Kidd, 1919. (Stuart Walker.)
Morningside Plays. Shay, 1917. (Elva de Pue, Caroline Briggs, Elmer L. Reizenstein, Zella Macdonald).
Moses, Montrose J. Representative Plays by American Dramatists. Dutton, 1918-21. Vol. III. (Belasco, Thomas, Walter.)
Pierce, John Alexander. The Masterpieces of Modern Drama. English and American. (Summarized and quoted.) 1915. (Thomas [2], Walter, Mackaye, Belasco.)
Portmanteau Plays. Stewart Kidd, 1918. (Stuart Walker.)
Provincetown Plays. See Cook.
Quinn, A.H. Representative American Plays. Century, 1917. (Crothers, Mackaye, Sheldon, Thomas).
Shay, Frank, and Loving, P. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays, 1920.
Small Stages, Plays for. Duffield, 1915. (Mary Aldis.)
Smith, Alice Mary. Short Plays by Representative Authors. Macmillan, 1920. (Constance D'Arcy Mackay, Mary Macmillan, Marks, Torrence, Walker.)
Stage, Guild Plays and Masques. (Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, Thomas Wood Stevens.)
Washington Square Plays. Drama League Series. Doubleday, Page, 1916. (Lewis Beach, Alice Gerstenberg, Edward Goodman, Moeller.)
Wisconsin Plays. See Dickinson.

COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES
Heydrick, B.A. Americans All. Harcourt, Brace, 1920.
Howells, W.D. Great Modern American Stories. Boni & Liveright, 1920. (Does not include much recent work.)
Laselle, Mary Augusta. Short Stories of the New America. Holt, 1919.
Law, F.H. Modern Short Stories. Century, 1918.
O'Brien, Edward J.H. Best short stories for 1915, 1916, etc. Published annually. Small, Maynard.
Thomas, Charles Swain. Atlantic Narratives. Atlantic, 1918.
Wick, Jean. The Stories Editors Buy and Why. Small, Maynard, 1921.
Williams, Blanche Colton. Our Short Story Writers. Moffat, Yard, 1920.
COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS
Kilmer, Joyce. Literature in the Making. Harper, 1917.
Morley, Christopher, Modern Essays. Harcourt, Brace, 1921.
Tanner, W.M. Essays and Essay-Writing. Atlantic, 1917.
Thomas, Charles Swain. Atlantic Classics, First and Second Series. Atlantic, 1918.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES
OF SHORT PLAYS
Boston Public Library. One-Act Plays in English. 1900-20.
Brown University Library. Plays of Today. 1921. (100 of the best modern dramas.)
Chicago Public Library. Actable One-Act Plays. 1916.
University of Utah. The One-Act Play in Colleges and High Schools. 1920.
Worcester, Massachusetts, Free Public Library. Selected List of One-Act Plays. 1921.
Boynton, Percy H. History of American Literature. 1919.
Cheney, Sheldon. The Art Theatre. 1917. (Appendix.)
Clapp, John Mantel. Plays for Amateurs. 1915. (Drama League of America.)
Clark, Barrett H. How to Produce Amateur Plays. 1917.
Dickinson, Thomas H. The Insurgent Theatre. 1917. (Appendix.)
Drummond, A.M. Fifty One-Act Plays. 1915. (Quarterly Journal of Public Speaking, I, 234.)
---- ---- One-Act Plays for Schools and Colleges. 1918. (Education, IV, 372.)
Johnson, Gertrude Elizabeth. Choosing a Play. Century, 1920.
Lewis, B. Roland. Contemporary One-Act Plays. 1922.
Mackay, Constance D'Arcy, The Little Theatre in the United States. 1917. Appendix.
Mayorga, Margaret Gardner, Representative One-Act Plays by American Authors. 1919.
Plays for Amateurs; a Selected List Prepared by the Little Theatre Department of the New York Drama League. Wilson, 1921.
Riley, Alice C.D. The One-Act Play Study Course. 1918. (Drama League Monthly, Feb.-Apr.)
Shay, Frank, Plays and Books of the Little Theatre, 1921.
Shay, Frank, and Loving, P. Fifty Contemporary One-act Plays, 1920.
Stratton, Clarence, Producing in Little Theatres, 1921. (Appendix lists 200 plays for amateurs.)
OF SHORT STORIES
Hannigan, F.J. Standard Index to Short Stories, 1900-1914. 1918.
O'Brien, E.J.H. Best Short Stories for 1915, 1916, etc. (Published annually.)

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS
+Franklin Pierce Adams+--(Illinois, 1881)--humorous poet, "columnist."
Editor of "The Conning Tower" in the New York World.
For bibliography, cf. Who's Who in America.

+Henry (Brooks) Adams+--man of letters.
Born in Boston, 1838. Great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams, presidents of the United States. Brother of Charles Francis and Brooks Adams. A.B., Harvard, 1858, LL.D., Western Reserve, 1892.
Secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, American Minister to England, 1861-8. Assistant professor at Harvard, 1870-7, and editor of North American Review, 1870-6.
Lived in Washington from 1877 until his death in 1918, but traveled extensively and knew many famous people.
In memory of his wife, he commissioned Saint Gaudens to make for her tomb in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, the statue sometimes called Silence, which is one of the sculptor's most beautiful works.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. The Education of Henry Adams is autobiographic.
The persistent irony of the presentation should be corrected by reading Brooks Adams's account of his brother.
2. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is an attempt to interpret the spirit of medi?val architecture, both secular and ecclesiastical. To appreciate it fully, familiarity with the subject is necessary.
The novels are worth study as satires.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Democracy. 1880. (Novel.) Esther. 1884. (Novel; under pseudonym, "Frances Snow Compton.") Historical Essays. 1891. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. 1904. The Education of Henry Adams. 1918. The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma. 1919. Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres. 1920. Also in: A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865.