nion Theological Seminary, 1874-7, and at
Harvard Divinity School, 1881-2. Higher honorary degrees. Ordained
Presbyterian minister, 1877. Pastorates in Nevada and California. Became
a Unitarian, 1882. Pastor in Brattleboro, Vermont, 1882-6; in St. Paul,
Minnesota, 1886-94; and of the First Church, Cambridge, since 1894.
Preacher to Harvard University.

Dr. Crothers's essays are rich with suave and scholarly humor, and are
written in a style suggestive of Lamb's.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Gentle Reader. 1903.
The Understanding Heart. 1903.
The Pardoner's Wallet. 1905.
The Endless Life. 1905.
By the Chrismas Fire. 1908.
Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Fellow Boarders. 1909.
Among Friends. 1910.
Humanly Speaking. 1912.
Three Lords of Destiny. 1913.
Meditations on Votes for Women. 1914.
The Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord. 1916.
The Dame School of Experience. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Pattee.

Bookm. 32 ('11): 631.
Critic, 48 ('06): 200 (portrait).
Cur. Op. 63 ('17): 406 (portrait).
Outlook, 102 ('12): 645 (portrait), 648.
So. Atlan. Q. 8 ('09): 150.

+James Oliver Curwood+ (Michigan, 1878)--novelist.

His material deals with primitive life in Canada. For bibliography, see
_Who's Who in America_.

+Thomas Augustine Daly+--poet.

Born at Philadelphia, 1871. Left college without a degree. Honorary
higher degrees. In 1889 became a newspaper man, and since 1891 has been
connected as reviewer, editorial writer, and "columnist" with
Philadelphia newspapers; associate editor of the _Evening Ledger_,
1915-8.

Mr. Daly has written good poetry in English, but is best known for the
dialect verses which he has published in the columns edited by him. His
most popular verses are in the Irish and Italian dialects.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Canzoni. 1906.
Carmina. 1909.
Madrigali. 1912.
Songs of Wedlock. 1916.
McAroni Ballads. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Untermeyer.

Am. M. 70 ('10): 750 (portrait); 89 ('20): June, p. 16.
Dublin R. 155 (4 s., 46) ('14): 116.
Outlook, 103 ('13): 261.
Poetry, 16 ('20): 278.

+Olive Tilford Dargan (Mrs. Pegram Dargan)+--poet, dramatist.

Born in Kentucky. Educated at the University of Nashville and at
Radcliffe. Taught in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Canada until she
married. Traveled abroad, 1910-14. Winner of $500 prize offered by the
Southern Society of New York for best book by So