class="leftpad">Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres. 1920.

Studies and Reviews

• Cambridge.
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• Ath. 1919, 1: 361; 1919, 2: 633; 1920, 1: 243, 665.
• Atlan. 125 (’20): 623; 127 (’21): 140.
• Bookm. (Lond.) 57 (’19): 30.
• Cur. Op. 66 (’19): 108.
• Dial, 65 (’18): 468.
• Dublin Rev. 164 (’19): 218.
• Harv. Grad. M. 26 (’18): 540.
• Lond. Times, May 30, 1919: 290.
• Nation, 106 (’18): 674.
• New Repub. 15 (’18): 106.
• New Statesman, 16 (’21): 711.
• 19th Cent. 85 (’19): 981.
• Pol. Sci. Q. 34 (’19): 305.
• Scrib. M. 69 (’21): 576 (portrait).
• Spec. 122 (’19): 231.
• World’s Work, 4 (’02): 2324.
• Yale Rev. n. s. 8 (’19): 580; n. s. 9 (’20): 271, 890.

George Ade—humorist, dramatist.

Born at Kentland, Indiana, 1866. B. S., Purdue University, 1887. Newspaper work at Lafayette, Indiana, 1887-90. On the Chicago Record, 1890-1900.

Although some of his earlier plays were successful and promised a career as dramatist, his reputation now rests chiefly upon his humorous modern fables.

Bibliography

• Fables in Slang. 1900.
• More Fables. 1900.
• Forty Modern Fables. 1901.
• The County Chairman. 1903. (Play.)
• The College Widow. 1904. (Play.)
• Ade’s Fables. 1914.
• Hand-Made Fables. 1920.

For complete bibliography, see Cambridge, III (IV), 640, 763.

Studies and Reviews

• Moses.
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• Am. M. 73 (’11): 71 (portrait), 73.
• Bookm. 51 (’20): 568; 54 (’21): 116.
• Harp. W. 47 (’03): 411 (portrait), 426.
• No. Am. 176 (’03): 739. (Howells.)
• Rev. 2 (’20): 461.

Conrad Potter Aiken—poet, critic.

Born at Savannah, Georgia, 1889. A. B., Harvard, 1912. Has lived abroad, in London, Rome, and Windermere.

Suggestions for Reading

1. A good introduction to Mr. Aiken’s verse is his own explanation of his theory in Poetry, 14 (’19); 152ff. To readers to whom this is not accessible, the following extracts may furnish some clue as to his aim and method: