rom a
dogmatic tolerance which refuses to draw lines between good and evil
or between beautiful and ugly or between wise and foolish. But he
gains, on the whole, more than he loses by the magnitude of his
cosmic philosophizing.... From somewhere sound accents of an
authority not sufficiently explained by the mere accuracy of his
versions of life. Though it may indeed be difficult for a thinker of
the widest views to contract himself to the dimensions needed for
realistic art, and though he may often fail when he attempts it,
when he does succeed he has the opportunity, which the mere
worldling lacks, of ennobling his art with some of the great lights
of the poets.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*Sister Carrie. 1900.
*Jennie Gerhardt. 1911.
The Financier. 1912.
A Traveller at Forty. 1913. (Travel sketches.)
The Titan. 1914.
The Genius. 1915.
Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural. 1916.
A Hoosier Holiday. 1916. (Travel sketches.)
Free and Other Stories. 1918.
The Hand of the Potter. 1918. (Tragedy.)
Twelve Men. 1919. (Biographical studies.)
Hey-rub-a-dub-dub. 1920.
A Book about Myself. 1922.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Mencken, H.L., Prefaces.
Sherman, Stuart P., On Contemporary Literature, 1917.

Acad. 85 ('13): 133. (Frank Harris.)
Bookm. 34 ('11): 221 (portrait); 38 ('14): 673; 53 ('21): 27 (portrait).
Cur. Lit. 53 ('12): 696 (portrait).
Cur. Op. 62 ('17): 344 (portrait); 63 ('17): 191; 66 ('19): 175.
Dial, 62 ('17): 343, 507.
Egoist, 3 ('16): 159.
Ind. 71 ('11): 1267 (portrait).
Lond. Times, June 23, 1921: 403.
Nation, 101 ('15): 648 (Stuart P. Sherman); 112 ('21): 400. (Carl Van
Doren.)
New Repub. 2 ('15): supp. Apr. 17, Pt. II, p. 7.
No. Am. 207 ('18): 902.
Review, 2 ('20): 380. (Paul Elmer More.)
R. of Rs. 47 ('13): 242 (portrait).
Spec. 118 ('17): 139.

+William Edward Burghardt Du Bois+--man of letters.

Born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1865. Of negro descent but with
large admixture of white blood. A.B., Fisk University, 1888; Harvard,
1890; A.M., 1891; Ph.D., 1895. Studied at the University of Berlin.
Professor of economics and history, Atlanta University, 1896-1910.
Director of publicity of the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and editor of the _Crisis_, 1910--.

Mr. Du Bois is a distinguished economist and primarily a pro