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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 Zo?logical Society since 1899; director of the British Guiana Zo?logical Station. Has traveled extensively in Asia, South America, and Mexico, especially, for purposes of observation.
SUGGESTIONS FOR READING
1. Although Mr. Beebe is pre?minently 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, 1920, and by Moses, Representative Plays by American Dramatists, 1918-21, III. For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. Cambridge, III (IV), 763.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players. 1916. Moses. Winter, William. Life of David Belasco. 1918. Acad. 83 ('12): 673. Nation, 100 ('10): 525. New Repub. 8 ('16): 155. Theatre Arts M. 5 ('21): 259=Outlook, 127 ('21): 418 (portrait).

+Stephen Vincent Ben��t+--poet, novelist.
Born at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1898; brother of William Rose Ben��t (q.v.) Graduate of Yale, 1919.
Mr. Ben��t's work at once attracted attention by its qualities of exuberance and fancy. In 1921, he shared with Carl Sandburg (q.v.) the prize of the Poetry Society of America.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Five Men and Pompey. 1915. The Drug Shop. 1917. Young Adventure. 1918. Heavens and Earth. 1920. The Beginning of Wisdom. 1921. (Novel.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Bookm. 47 ('18): 558 (Phelps); 54 ('21): 394. Dial, 71 ('21): 597. Poetry, 16 ('20): 53; 20 ('22): 340. See also Book Review Digest, 1919, 1920, 1921.

+William Rose Ben��t+--poet.
Born at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor, 1886. Ph.B., Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1907. Free lance writer in California 1907-11. Reader for the Century Magazine, 1911-18. In 1920, associate editor of the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post.
Mr. Ben��t's verse has attracted attention for its pictorial imagination, vigorous rhythms, and grotesque and lively fancy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Merchants from Cathay. 1913. The Falconer of God. 1914. The Great White Wall. 1916. The Burglar of the Zodiac. 1918. Perpetual Light. 1919. Moons of Grandeur. 1920.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Untermeyer.
Bookm. 47 ('18): 558; 53 ('21): 168. Dial, 56 ('14): 67. Poetry, 5 ('14): 91; 9 ('17): 322; 12 ('18): 216; 15 ('19): 48. R. of Rs. 51 ('15): 759. See also Book Review Digest, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1920.

+Konrad Bercovici+--story writer.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Crimes of Charity. 1917. (With introduction by John Reed.) Dust of New York. 1919. (Short stories.) Ghiza and Other Romances of Gipsy Blood. 1921.
For reviews, see Book Review Digest, 1917, 1919, 1921.

+Edwin (August) Bj?rkman+--critic.
Born at Stockholm, Sweden, 1866. Educated in Stockholm high school. Clerk, actor, and journalist in Sweden, 1881-91. Came to America, 1891. On staffs of St. Paul and Minneapolis papers, 1892-7; on the New York Sun and New York Times, 1897-1905. On the editorial staff of the New York Evening Post, 1906. Department editor of the World's Work and editor of the Modern Drama Series, 1912--.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Is There Anything New Under the Sun? 1911. Gleams: A Fragmentary Interpretation of Man and His World. 1912. Voices of To-morrow. 1913. The Soul of a Child. 1922. (Novel.)
STUDIES AND REVIEWS
Cur. Op. 55 ('13): 190 (portrait). R. of Rs. 45 ('12): 115 (portrait). See also Book Review Digest, 1913.

+Maxwell Bodenheim+--poet.
Born at Natchez, Mississippi, 1892. Grammar school education. Served in the U.S. Army, 1910-13. Studied