Contemporary American Literature
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CONTEMPORARY
AMERICAN LITERATURE
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND STUDY OUTLINES
BY
JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY
AND
EDITH RICKERT
NEW YORK
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.
Printed in the U.S.A.
CONTENTS
PAGE
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK v
INDEXES AND CRITICAL PERIODICALS ix
GENERAL WORKS OF REFERENCE xi
ANTHOLOGIES xv
COLLECTIONS OF PLAYS xvi
COLLECTIONS OF SHORT STORIES xviii
COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS xviii
BIBLIOGRAPHIES xix
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL MATTER,
BIBLIOGRAPHIES, AND STUDIES AND REVIEWS 1
INDEXES OF AUTHORS ACCORDING TO FORM 167
INDEX OF AUTHORS ACCORDING TO BIRTHPLACE 177
INDEX OF AUTHORS ACCORDING TO SUBJECT-MATTER AND LOCAL
COLOR 181
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
This book is intended as a companion volume to _Contemporary British
Literature_; but the differences between conditions in America and in
England have made it necessary to alter somewhat the original plan.
In America today we have a few excellent writers who challenge comparison
with the best of present-day England. We have many more who have been
widely successful in the business of making novels, poems, plays, which
cannot rank as literature at all. In choosing from such a large number a
list for study, it is our hope that we have not omitted the name of any
author who counts as a force in our developing literature; but, on the
other hand, it is undoubtedly true that we have excluded many writers
whose work compares favorably with that of some on the list. Our choice
has been governed by two principles: (1) To include experimental
work--work dealing with fresh materials or attempting new methods--rather
than better work on familiar patterns; and (2) to represent varying
tendencies in the literary effort of our country today rather than work
that ranks high in popular taste. The task of doing justice to every
writer is impossible; but we have been primarily concerned not with
writers but with readers--those who wish guidance to the best that there
is in our literature and to the signs that point to the future.
The word _contemporary_ we have interpreted arbitrarily to mean since the
beginning of the War, excluding writers who died before August, 1914, and
living authors who have produced no work since then. Space limitations
made it impossible to go back to the beginning of the century, and no
other date since then is so significant as 1914.
The biographical material is limited to information of interest for the
interpretation of work. The bibliographies are selective except in the
case of the more important authors, for whom they are, for the student's
purpose, complete. The following items have usually been omitted: (1)
books privately printed; (2) separate editions of works included in
larger volumes; (3) unimportant or inaccessible works; (4) works not of a
literary character; (5) English reprints; (6) editions other than the
first. Exceptions to this plan explain themselves.
The stars (*) are merely guides to the reader in long bibliographies and
bibliographies containing works of very unequal merit.
The Suggestions for Reading given in the case of the more important
authors are intended for students who need and desire guidance. It is our
hope that these hints and questions may lead to discussion and
differences of opinion, for dissent is the guidepost to truth. As far as
possible, we have avoided statement of our own opinions.
The Studies and Reviews are the meagre result of long search in
periodical literature. The fact that the photograph and the personal note
bulk far more largely than criticism in America needs no comment here.
Supplementary to the alphabetical list of authors with material for
study, which constitutes the body of the book, are the classified
indexes. These are intended for use in planning courses of study. The
classification according to form suggests the limitation of work to
poets, dramatists, novelists, short-story writers, essayists, critics,
writers on country life, travel, and Nature, humorists, "columnists," and
writers of biography and autobiography. In this connection should be
noted the supplementary list of poets whose names have not been included
in our list but whose work can be studied in one or more of the
anthologies indicated.
The classification according to birthplace (in some cases information
could not be obtained) furnishes material for the study of local groups
of writers.
The classification according to subject matter (including the use of
local color and background), although it is necessarily incomplete,
will, it is hoped, suggest courses of reading on these bases.
Preceding the alphabetical list of authors are bibliographies of
different types, which should be of use in the finding of material: lists
of indexes and critical periodicals; of general works of reference
discussing the period; of collections of poems, plays, short-stories, and
essays; and of bibliographies of short plays and short stories.
* * * * *
Our thanks for criticisms and suggestions are due to Professors Robert
Herrick, Robert Morss Lovett, and Percy Holmes Boynton.
To Mr. G. Teyen, of the Chicago Public Library, we are indebted for
continual help in procuring books, verifying references, and, in general,
for putting the resources of the library at our disposal.
INDEXES AND CRITICAL PERIODICALS
_Indexes_
American Library Association Index, (to 1900) A.L.A.I.
Supplement, 1901-1910 A.L.A. Supp.
Annual Literary Index (1892-1904) A.L.I.
Continued as Annual Library Index, 1905-1910 A.L.I.
Dramatic Index, 1909- D.I.
Published with Annual Magazine Subject Index.
Magazine Subject Index: Boston, 1908 M.S.I.
Continued by Annual Magazine Subject Index, 1909- A.S.I.
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1881 Poole
Supplements, 1882-1906; 1907-1908 Poole Supp.
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900- R.G.
Supplement, 1907-1915, 1916-1919 R.G. Supp.
Continued as International Index to Periodicals, 1921- I.I.P.
_Periodicals_
(The initials following the abbreviated titles of the periodicals refer
to the indexes in which they are listed.)
The _Book Review Digest_, 1905- ----, contains summaries of important
reviews in periodicals and newspapers.
Academy: London (ceased 1916)--Acad.
American Catholic Quarterly Review: Philadelphia--Amer. Cath. Quar.
Athenaeum: London--Ath.--A.L.I. Combined with Nation (London), Feb. 19,
1921.
Atlantic Monthly: Boston--Atlan.--R.G.; A.S.I.
Bellman: Minneapolis, Minn. (ceased 1919).
Booklist (A.L.A.): Chicago.
Bookman: New York--Bookm.--R.G.
Bookman: London--Bookm. (Lond.)--D.I.; A.S.I.
Book News: Philadelphia (ceased 1918).
Boston Transcript: Boston--Bost. Trans.
Catholic World: New York--Cath. World.
Century: New York--Cent.--R.G.
Chapbook (a Monthly Miscellany): London.
Columbia University Quarterly: New York--Columbia Univ. Quar.
Contemporary Review: London and New York--Contemp.--R.G.; A.S.I.
Craftsman: New York. Includes some literary studies.
Critic: New York (ceased 1906)--R.G.
Current Literature: New York (name changed to Current Opinion,
1913)--Cur. Lit.--R.G.
Current Opinion: New York--Cur. Op.--R.G.
Dial: New York--Dial--R.G.
Double-Dealer: New Orleans (1921- ----).
Drama: Washington--Drama--R.G.S.
Dublin Review: London--Dub. R.--D.I.; A.S.I.; R.G.S.
Edinburgh Review: Edinburgh--Edin. R.
Egoist: London (1914-19). Includes art, music, literature, emphasizing
especially new movements.
English Review: London (1908- ----)--Eng. Rev.--R.G.S.; D.I.; A.S.I.
Fortnightly Review: London and New York--Fortn.--R.G.; A.S.I.
Forum: New York--R.G.; A.S.I.
Freeman: New York (ceased 1924).
Harper's Magazine: New York--Harp.
Independent: New York--Ind.--R.G.
Literary Digest: New York--Lit. Digest--R.G.
Literary Review of the New York Evening Post: New York (1921- ----).--Lit.
Rev.
Little Review: Chicago.
Littell's Living Age: Boston--Liv. Age--R.G. Reprints from the best
periodicals.
London Mercury: London (1919- ----)--Lond. Merc. Critical review,
established in 1919, edited by J.C. Squire.
London Times Literary Supplement: London--Lond. Times--A.S.I.
Manchester Guardian: Manchester, England--The best English provincial
paper for reviews.
Nation: London--Nation (Lond.)--A.S.I. See Athenaeum.
Nation: New York--Nation--R.G.
New Republic: New York (1914- )--New Repub.--R.G.
New Statesman: London (1913- )--New Statesman--R.G.S.; A.S.I.
New York Eve. Post. See Literary Review.
New York Times Review of Books: New York--N.Y. Times.
Nineteenth Century and After: London and New York--19th Cent.--R.G.;
A.S.I.
North American Review: New York--No. Am.--R.G.; A.S.I.
Outlook: New York.
Poet Lore: Boston--Poet Lore--R.G.S.
Poetry: Chicago--Poetry--R.G.
Quarterly Review: London and New York--Quar.--R.G.; A.S.I.
The Review: New York--a weekly journal of political and general
discussion: Began 1919; changed its name, June, 1920, to Weekly
Review; consolidated with Independent, October, 1921.
Review of Reviews: New York--R. of Rs.--R.G.
Saturday Review: London--Sat. Rev.--A.S.I.
Sewanee Review: Sewanee, Tennessee.
Spectator: London--Spec.--R.G.S.; A.S.I.
Springfield Republican, Springfield, Mass.--Springfield Repub.
Touchstone: New York.
Unpopular Review--New York. 1915-19. Continued as Unpartizan Review to
1921.
Westminster Review--London--Westm. R. (ceased 1914).
World Today: New York (ceased 1912).
Yale Review: New Haven, Conn.--R.G.S.
Popular magazines, referred to on occasion, are not listed above.
GENERAL WORKS OF REFERENCE
(Referred to in the book by the first word usually)
1. HISTORIES AND GENERAL DISCUSSION
Boynton, Percy Holmes. A History of American Literature. 1919.
(Bibliographies.)
Cambridge History of American Literature. 1917-21. By W.P. Trent, John
Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman, and Carl Van Doren. (Vols. III, IV.)
(Bibliographies.)
Macy, J.A. The Spirit of American Literature. 1913.
Pattee, Fred Lewis. A History of American Literature since 1870. 1915.
(Bibliographies.)
Perry, Bliss. The American Spirit in Literature. 1918.
Stearns, Harold E. America and the Young Intellectual. 1921.
---- ---- Civilization in the United States. 1922. (Special chapters.)
2. CRITICISM OF SPECIAL AUTHORS OR PHASES
Canby, H.S., Benet, W.R., and Loveman, Amy, Saturday Papers. 1921.
Hackett, Francis. Horizons: a Book of Criticism. 1918.
---- ---- Editor. On American Books. 1920. (Symposium by Joel D.
Spingarn, Padraic Colum, H.L. Mencken, Morris R. Cohen, and Francis
Hackett.)
Littell, Philip, Books and Things. 1919.
Mencken, H.L. Prefaces. 1917.
---- ---- Prejudices, First and Second Series. 1919-20.
Underwood, John Curtis, Literature and Insurgency. 1914.
3. DRAMA
Andrews, Charlton. The Drama Today. 1913.
Baker, George Pierce. Dramatic Technique. 1912.
Beegle, Mary Porter, and Crawford, Jack R. Community Drama and Pageantry.
1916.
Burleigh, Louise. The Community Theatre in Theory and in Practice. 1917.
(Bibliography.)
Chandler, F.W. Aspects of Modern Drama. 1914.
Cheney, Sheldon. The Art Theatre. 1917.
---- ---- The New Movement in the Theatre. 1914.
---- ---- The Out-Of-Door Theatre. 1918.
Clark, Barrett H. The British and American Drama of Today. 1915, 1921.
Dickinson, Thomas H. The Case of American Drama. 1915.
---- ---- The Insurgent Theatre. 1917.
Eaton, Walter Prichard. At the New Theatre and Others. 1910.
---- ---- Plays and Players: Leaves from a Critic's Notebook. 1916.
Goldman, Emma. The Social Significance of the Modern Drama. 1914.
Grau, Robert. The Theatre of Science. 1914.
Hamilton, Clayton. Studies in Stagecraft. 1914.
Henderson, Archibald. The Changing Drama. 1914.
Lewis, B. Roland. The Technique of the One-Act Play. 1918.
Lewisohn, Ludwig. The Modern Drama. 1915.
Mackay, Constance D'Arcy. The Little Theatre in the United States. 1917.
Mackaye, Percy. The Civic Theatre. 1912.
---- ---- Community Drama. 1917.
---- ---- The Playhouse and the Play. 1909.
Macgowan, K. The Theatre of Tomorrow. 1921.
Matthews, Brander. A Book about the Theatre. 1916.
Moderwell, Hiram Kelly. The Theatre of Today. 1914.
Moses, Montrose J. The American Dramatist. 1917.
Nathan, George Jean. Another Book on the Theatre. 1915.
Phelps, William Lyon. The Twentieth Century Theatre. 1918.
4. NOVEL
Cooper, Frederic Taber. Some American Story-Tellers. 1911.
Gordon, G. The Men Who Make our Novels. 1919.
Overton, Grant. The Women Who Make our Novels. 1918.
Phelps, William Lyon. The Advance of the English Novel. 1916.
Van Doren, Carl. The American Novel. 1921.
Wilkinson, H. Social Thought in American Fiction (1910-17). 1919.
5. POETRY
Aiken, Conrad, Scepticisms. Notes on Contemporary Poetry. 1919.
Caswell, E.S. Canadian Singers and Their Songs. 1920.
Cook, H.W. Our Poets of Today. 1918.
Lowell, Amy. Tendencies in Modern American Poetry. 1917.
Lowes, John Livingston. Convention and Revolt in Poetry. 1919.
Peckham, E.H. Present-Day American Poetry. 1917.
Phelps, William Lyon. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth
Century. 1918.
Rittenhouse, Jessie B. The Younger American Poets. 1904.
Untermeyer, Louis. The New Era in American Poetry. 1919.
Wilkinson, Marguerite. New Voices. 1919.
6. BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL
Halsey, F.W. American Authors and Their Homes. Personal Descriptions and
Interviews (Illustrated). 1901.
---- ---- Women Authors of our Day in their Homes (Illustrated.) 1903.
Harkins, E.F. Famous Authors. (Men.) 1901.
---- ---- Famous Authors. (Women.) 1901.
ANTHOLOGIES
Andrews, C.E. From the Front; Trench Poetry. Appleton, 1918.
Anthology of American Humor in Verse. Duffield, 1917.
American and British from the Yale Review. (Foreword by J.G. Fletcher.)
1920-21.
Armstrong, H.F. Book of New York Verse. Putnam, 1917.
Blanden, C.G., and Mathison, M. Chicago Anthology. Roadside Press, 1916.
Braithwaite, W.S. Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of
American Poetry. Small, Maynard, 1914- ----.
---- ---- Golden Treasury of Magazine Verse. Small, Maynard, 1918.
Clarke, G.H. Treasury of War Poetry. Houghton Mifflin: First Series,
1917; Second Series, 1919.
Cook, H.W. Our Poets of Today. Moffat, Yard, 1918.
Cronyn, George W. The Path on the Rainbow (North American Indian Songs
and Chants.) Boni & Liveright, 1918.
Des Imagistes: 1914. Poetry Bookshop, London, 1914.
Edgar, W.C. The Bellman Book of Verse, 1906-19. Bellman Co., 1919.
Erskine, John. Contemporary Verse Anthology. (War poetry.) Dutton, 1920.
Kreymborg, Alfred. Others. Knopf, 1916, 1917, 1919.
Le Gallienne, Richard. Modern Book of American Verse. Boni & Liveright,
1919.
Miscellany of American Poetry, A. Harcourt, Brace, 1920.
Monroe, Harriet, and Henderson, Alice Corbin. The New Poetry. Macmillan,
1917; revised edition, 1920.
O'Brien, Edward J. A Masque of Poets. Dodd, Mead, 1918.
Richards, G.M. High Tide; Songs of Joy and Vision. Houghton Mifflin,
1918.
---- ---- The Melody of Earth. (Nature and Garden Poems from Present-day
Poets.) Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
---- ---- Star Points; Songs of Joy, Faith, and Promise. Houghton
Mifflin, 1921.
Rittenhouse, Jessie B. The Little Book of Modern Verse. Houghton Mifflin,
1913-19.
---- ---- The Second Book of Modern Verse. Houghton Mifflin, 1919.
Some Imagist Poets: 1915, 1916, 1917. Constable.
Stork, Charles Wharton, Contemporary Verse Anthology. Favorite Poems
Selected from the Magazine of Contemporary Verse. 1916-20. Dutton,
1920.
Untermeyer, Louis. Modern American Poetry. Harcourt, Brace, 1920;
enlarged, 1921.
COLLECTIONS OF PLAYS
Baker, George Pierce. Harvard Plays. Brentano.
I. 47 Workshop Plays. First Series. 1918. (Rachel L. Field, Hubert
Osborne, Eugene Pillot, William L. Prosser.)
II. Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club. First Series. 1918. (Winifred
Hawkridge, H. Brock, Rita C. Smith, K. Andrews.)
III. Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club. Second Series. 1919. (Louise
W. Bray, E.W. Bates, F. Bishop, C. Kinkead.)
IV. 47 Workshop Plays. Second Series, 1920. (Kenneth Raesback, Norman
C. Lindau, Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, Doris F. Halnan.)
Baker, George Pierce. Modern American Plays. Harcourt, Brace, 1920.
(Belasco, Sheldon, Thomas).
Cohen, Helen Louise. One-Act Plays by Modern Authors. Harcourt, Brace,
1921. (Mackaye, Marks, Peabody, R.E. Rogers, Tarkington, Stark
Young.)
---- ---- Longer Plays by Modern Authors. Harcourt, Brace, 1922. (Thomas,
Tarkington.)
Cook, G.C. and Shay, F. Provincetown Plays. Stewart Kidd.
---- ---- First Series (Louise Bryant, Dell, O'Neill), 1916.
---- ---- Second Series (Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hapgood, G.C. Cook and
Susan Glaspell, John Reed), 1916.
---- ---- Third Series (Neith Boyce, Kreymborg, O'Neill), 1917. (Boyce
and Hapgood, Cook and Glaspell, Dell, P. King, Millay, O'Neill,
Oppenheim, Alice Rostetter, W.D. Steele, Wellman), 1921.
Dickinson, Thomas H. Chief Contemporary Dramatists. Houghton Mifflin,
1915. (Mackaye, Thomas.)
---- ---- Second Series (G.C. Hazelton and Benrimo, Peabody, Walter).
Dickinson, Thomas H. Wisconsin Plays. Huebsch.
---- ---- First Series (Thomas H. Dickinson, Gale, William Ellery
Leonard), 1914.
---- ---- Second Series (M. Ilsley, H.M. Jones, Laura Sherry), 1918.
47 Workshop, Plays of the. _See_ Baker.
Harvard Dramatic Club, Plays of the. _See_ Baker.
Knickerbocker, Edwin Van B. Plays for Classroom Interpretation. Holt,
1921.
Lewis, B. Roland. Contemporary One-Act Plays. 1922. (Bibliographies.)
(Middleton, 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 mediaeval 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. Edited by Worthington
Chauncey Ford. 1920.