and the League of American Pen Women. She is one of the most
eloquent readers before the public to-day; was a delegate to the
Congress of Women at The Hague 1915, at which she read her poem
"Battle Cry of the Mothers." Her four books of poems are "The Hour Has
Struck," "Utterance, and Other Poems," "Forward, March!" and "Hail,
Man!" and a fifth is soon to be published. Her book of fiction "The
Imprisoned Splendor" contains well-known stories ("What Shall We Do
with Mother?" "The Craving," "Such Is the Love of Woman," and "The
Making of a Man"), some of which appeared previously in magazines. A
novel is shortly to be published. _A Song of Life; A Song of
Thanksgiving; Grief; Know Thyself; Stand Forth!; When Nature Wants a
Man; Work_.

MORRIS, JOSEPH. Born in Ohio 1889. College and university education;
professor of English and lecturer on literary subjects; newspaper and
magazine contributor; connected with publishing houses since 1917 in
various editorial capacities. _A Lesson from History; Borrowed
Feathers; Can You Sing a Song?; If You Can't Go Over or Under, Go
Round; Philosophy for Croakers; Swellitis; The Glad Song; The
Unmusical Soloist; Two Raindrops_.

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NEIHARDT, JOHN GNEISENAU. Born near Sharpsburg, Ill., Jan. 8, 1881.
Completed the scientific course at the Nebraska Normal College 1897;
received the degree of Litt.D. from the University of Nebraska 1917.
Declared Poet Laureate of Nebraska by a joint resolution of the
Legislature, Apr. 1921, in recognition of the significance of the
American epic cycle upon which he has been working for eight years.
Winner of the prize of five hundred dollars offered by the Poetry
Society of America for the best volume of poetry ("The Song of Three
Friends") published by an American in 1919. Has been literary critic
of the Minneapolis _Journal_ since 1912. Among his books are "The
Divine Enchantment," "The Lonesome Trail," "A Bundle of Myrrh,"
"Man-Song," "The River and I," "The Dawn-Builder," "The Stranger at
the Gate," "Death of Agrippina," "Life's Lure," "The Song of Hugh
Glass," "The Quest," "The Song of Three Friends," "The Splendid
Wayfaring," and "Two Mothers." _Battle Cry_, 148; _Envoi_, 196; _Let
Me Live Out My Years_, 127; _Prayer for Pain_, 208.

NETTE, JEAN. _Challenge_, 119.

NEWBOLT, SIR HENRY. Born at Bilston, Eng., June 6, 1862. Educated at
Oxford; practised law until 1899; editor of _