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was passing.

Some of them are written in a form of her own invention, the "cinquain"
(five unrhymed lines, having two, four, six, eight, and two syllables).

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Miss Crapsey's theories of versification should be remembered in
studying her forms.

2. What is to be said of her verbal economy?

3. A comparison of her verses with those of Emily Dickinson has been
suggested. Carried out in detail, it suggests interesting points of
difference as well as of resemblance.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Poems. 1915.
Study in English Metrics. 1918.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Bookm. 50 ('20): 496.
Poetry, 10 ('17): 316.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1918.

+Gladys Cromwell+--poet.

Born in New York City, 1885. Educated in New York private schools and
lived much abroad. In 1918, with her twin sister, she went into Red Cross
Canteen work and was stationed at Chalons. As a result of depression due
to nerve strain, both sisters committed suicide by jumping overboard from
the steamer on which they were coming home. For their War service the
French Government later awarded them the Croix de Guerre. Miss Cromwell's
_Poems_ in 1919 divided with Mr. Neihardt's (q.v.) _Song of Three
Friends_ the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Gates of Utterance. 1915.
Poems. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Ath. 1920, 1: 289.
Bookm. 51 ('20): 216.
Dial, 68 ('20): 534.
Lond. Times, April 15, 1920: 243.
New Repub. 18 ('19): 189; 22 ('20): 65.
Poetry, 13 ('19): 326; 16 ('20): 105.

+Rachel Crothers+--dramatist.

Born at Bloomington, Illinois. Graduate of the Illinois State Normal
School, Normal, Illinois, 1892.

Miss Crothers directs her plays and sometimes acts in them.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Criss Cross. 1904.
The Rector. 1906.
A Man's World. 1915.
The Three of Us. 1916.
The Herfords. (Quinn, _Representative American Plays_, under the
title _He and She_, 1917.)

For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 765.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Eaton, W.P. At the New Theatre. 1910.
Moses.

New Repub. 9 ('16): 217.
Touchstone, 4 ('18): 25 (portrait).
World Today, 15 ('08): 729 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1915.

+Samuel McChord Crothers+--essayist.

Born at Oswego, Illinois, 1857. A.B., Wittenberg College, 1873,
Princeton, 1874. Studied at U