4. Compare her studies with those of Cahan (q.v.), Cournos (q.v.), and
Tobenkin (q.v.).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

April Twilights. 1903. (Poems.)
The Troll Garden. 1905. (Short stories.)
Alexander's Bridge. 1912.
The Bohemian Girl. 1912.
*O Pioneers. 1913.
The Song of the Lark. 1915.
*My Antonia. 1918.
Youth and the Bright Medusa. 1920. (Short Stories.)
One of Ours. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Overton.

Bookm. 21 ('05): 456 (portrait); 27 ('08): 152 (portrait);
53 ('21): 212 (portrait).
Lond. Times, June 23, 1921: 403.
Nation, 113 ('21): 92.
New Repub. 25 ('21): 233.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915, 1918, 1920.

+George Randolph Chester+ (Ohio, 1869)--novelist, short-story writer. The
inventor of the _Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingford_ type of fiction.

For bibliography, see _Who's Who in America_.

+Winston Churchill+--novelist.

Born at St. Louis, 1871. Graduate of U.S. Naval Academy, 1894. Honorary
higher degrees. Member of New Hampshire Legislature 1903, 1905. Fought
boss and corporation control and was barely defeated for governor of the
state, 1908. Lives at Cornish, New Hampshire.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

As an aid to analysis of Mr. Churchill's work, consider Mr. Carl Van
Doren's article in the _Nation_, of which the most striking passages are
quoted below:

To reflect a little upon this combination of heroic color and moral
earnestness is to discover how much Mr. Churchill owes to the
element injected into American life by Theodore Roosevelt.... Like
him Mr. Churchill has habitually moved along the main lines of
national feeling--believing in America and democracy with a fealty
unshaken by any adverse evidence and delighting in the American
pageant with a gusto rarely modified by the exercise of any critical
intelligence. Morally he has been strenuous and eager;
intellectually he has been naive and belated.

* * * * *

Once taken by an idea for a novel, he has always burned with it as
if it were as new to the world as to him. Here lies, without much
question, the secret of that genuine earnestness which pervades all
his books: he writes out of the contagious passion of a recent
convert or a still excited discoverer. Here lies, too, without much
question, the secret of Mr. Churchill's success in holding his
audiences: a sor