ec. 110 ('13): 809.

+William Lyon Phelps+--critic.

Born at New Haven, Connecticut, 1865. A.B., Yale, 1887; Ph.D. 1891; A.M.,
Harvard, 1891. Instructor in English literature at Yale, 1892-6,
assistant professor of the English language and literature, 1896-1901;
Lampson professor since 1901. Deacon in the Baptist Church.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Essays on Modern Novelists. 1910.
Essays on Russian Novelists. 1911.
Essays on Books. 1914.
Browning. 1915.
The Advance of the English Novel. 1916.
The Advance of English Poetry. 1918.
Archibald Marshall. 1918.
The Twentieth Century Theatre. 1918.
Reading the Bible. 1919.
Essays on Modern Dramatists. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 41 ('15): 585 (portrait), 587; 31 ('10): 349 (portrait).
Ind. 71 ('11): 815 (portrait).
Lond. Times, Mar. 17, 1910: 95.
Poetry, 14 ('19): 159.
R. of Rs. 45 ('12): 103 (portrait).

+David Pinski+--dramatist.

Born in Russia, 1873. Educated at the University of Berlin, 1897-9. Came
to the United States, 1899. Studied at Columbia, 1903-4. President of
Pinski-Massel Press. President of Jewish National Workers' Alliance.
Socialist-Zionist.

His reputation is based principally upon his five volumes of plays and
two of stories in Yiddish, but he has also written in English.

BIBLIOGRAPHY (of works in English)

The Treasure. 1916. (Comedy.)
Three Plays. 1918.
Little Heroes; The Stranger. 1918. (In Goldberg, I., Six Plays of the
Yiddish Theatre. Second Series.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cambridge.

See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918-20.

+Edwin Ford Piper+ (Nebraska, 1871)--poet.

Mr. Piper's volume, (_Barbed Wire and Other Poems_, 1917) reflects the
prairies of the Middle West.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Poetry, 12 ('18): 276.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1917.

+Ernest Poole+--novelist.

Born at Chicago, 1880. A.B., Princeton, 1902. Lived in University
Settlement, New York, 1902-5, studying social conditions, especially in
connection with child labor, and in the movement to fight tuberculosis.
He helped Upton Sinclair (q.v.) gather stockyards material for _The
Jungle_. War correspondent in Germany and France, 1914-5. As a socialist,
Mr. Poole also worked for a time in Russia with the revolutionaries.

The familiarity with dockyards and dockmen, which is such a striking
feature of _The Harbor_, dates back to Mr. Poole's boy