dams+--(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.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cambridge.

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.