present Mr. Waldron devotes nearly all his time to magazine writing upon his specialties. A comprehensive article on "The Merchant Marine of the World" was contributed by Paul S. Reinsch [born Milwaukee, Wisconsin], who holds the chair of political science at the University of Wisconsin. Professor Reinsch was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1892, and from its law school in 1894. After law practise for one year he became instructor at the university, receiving his doctor's degree in 1898. Further research work was done in the library at Washington, the University of Berlin, and at the various capitals of the European States. Professor Reinsch is the author of a monograph on "The Common Law in the Early American Colonies," a book on" World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century as Influenced by the Oriental Situation," and has almost completed a book on "Colonial Government" which will be published in the spring. Professor T. N. Carver [born Kirkville, Iowa] furnished a paper on "Trusts and Internationalism." Dr. Carver, now assistant professor, has been elected professor of political economy at Harvard, to take effect September 1. He is an associate and at present the acting editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He graduated at the University of Southern California in 1891; received doctor's degree from Cornell, 1894; was associate (1894-99) and professor (18991900) of economics and sociology at Oberlin. Charles B. Spahr wrote of "Child Labor in England and the United States." Mr. Spahr [born Columbus, Ohio] has been associate editor of The Outlook since 1886. He was graduated from Amherst, class of 1888; studied at Leipsic, and received his doctor's degree from Columbia. Among his books are: "Present Distribution of Wealth in the United States," "America's Working People." EDUCATION AND PHILANTHROPY. Along the lines of education and philanthropy, articles on "Women Deans of Women's Colleges," "Public Swimming Baths," and "What is Being Done in Textile Education" were presented. The author, Jane A. Stewart, is a special writer for many journals on subjects related to woman's, religious, educational, sociological, and reform movements. She was born in Boston, began writing for the Toledo Blade, was on the staff of the Union Signal 1891 2, visited Europe in 1895 in the interest of temperance work, was two years in California, returned to Boston for editorial work, went abroad again in 1900 to visit parts of France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium and Italy, covering the Paris Exposition, World's W. C. T. U. Convention at Edinburgh, and the International Christian Endeavor Convention at London. She is a member of the New England Woman's Press Association and the Massachusetts Equal Suffrage Association. The writer of "The Present Status of Mr. Victor S. Yarros, editorial contributor on political, economic, and social topics, is chief editorial writer of the Chicago Evening Post. Mr. Yarros left the editorial staff of The Literary Digest for his present position, which is a commanding one among the best class of American newspapers. Honorary Degrees" is Calvin Dill Wilson. Mr. Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, was graduated from Washington-Jefferson College and the Western Theological Seminary. He is pastor of the Presbyterian church at Franklin, Ohio. His books include "The Story of the Cid," "Child's Don Quixote, ""Bible Boys and Girls." Stephen J. Herben, editorial contributor and writer of the article on the "Twentieth Century Thankoffering Movement," is assistant editor of The Christian Advocate, New York. He was born in London, was graduated from Northwestern University in 1889; Garrett Biblical Institute in 1891. From 1890 to 1895 he was assistant editor of The Epworth Herald, Chicago. Eugene M. Camp, editorial contributor, writer of "Christian Expansion," "Churches and Student Aid," and other articles of similar character, is a native of Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania. At twelve he was telegraph messenger and newspaper correspondent. He worked ten years for the Lake Shore Railway, rising from private secretary to superintendent. He founded a local newspaper, served on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia Times, the Boston Herald, and was seven years with Messrs. Harper & Brothers, New York. Mr. Camp has taken an interest in history, economy, and news of religious bodies, as a business specialty, and in 1896 founded the Church News Association, New York, which is the purveyor of church news to the principal daily newspapers of the country, and the New York correspondent of practically all religious papers that afford New York service. This Association is the pioneer of its kind. Mr. Camp was the founder and is Head Helper of the Lay Helper's Association of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, an organization of laymen engaged in unpaid work of Church extension in new parts of New York City. Twelve missions, most of them destined to be great parishes, with now eleven hundred children in their Sunday-schools, have been started in New York City by the association, work of which has been widely copied. A paper telling "How a Country Town was Made Social" is reported to have helped at least one other town to accomplish a similar result, since it was published in THE CHAUTAUQUAN. The author, Max Bennett Thrasher [born Westmoreland, New Hampshire], was educated at St. Johnsbury Academy, went to Boston from Newport, Vermont, in 1892, and since then has been chiefly engaged in general literary work. He was three years on the staff of the Boston Journal, and for a year and a half assistant superintendent of the Farm School, Thompson's Island, Boston harbor. Mr. Thrasher has made a specialty of studying and reporting educational and philanthropic work in the South. He has given particular attention to the work of Tuskegee Institute and its graduates and students, having published a book entitled "Tuskegee: Its Story and Its Work," which Principal Booker T. Washington highly commends. Mr. Thrasher also wrote for THE CHAUTAUQUAN an account of the "Tuskegee Negro Conference." "The Study of Rural Life" and "Farmers' Institutes" came from Kenyon L. Butterfield, a graduate of Michigan Agricultural College in 1891. Mr. Butterfield was born at Lapeer, Michigan. Soon after graduation he became editor and manager of the Grange Visitor, the organ of the state grange which was later absorbed by the Michigan Farmer. In that paper Mr. Butterfield has charge of the Grange department. In 1895 he was chosen superintendent of Farmers' Institutes, under an appropriation of five thousand dollars, carrying on that work for four years. He was also for three years field agent for the agricultural college. For two years he has been taking post-graduate work at the University of Michigan and contributing to periodicals. LITERARY FEATURES. In general literary lines THE CHAUTAUQUAN has presented a unique series upon "Word Coinage by Living American Authors." This consisted of a very large number of interviews with prominent authors and writers, telling what words they have coined and giving their views regarding the practise. This remarkable collection (issued in large book form this summer) was made and commented upon by Leon Mead. Mr. Mead [born Margaretville, New York] began to write verse for publication at the age of fifteen. He studied at Boston University, in France, and in Germany; has been reporter and staff writer on newspapers in Boston, New York, and elsewhere; was associate editor of Truth (weekly) and Form Magazine. Mr. Mead has written several plays and the words of a number of songs; of the latter "The Persian Wise Men," a Christmas choral (Ditson), may be mentioned. In fiction Mr. Mead considers strongest "A Strange Obsession" (The Smart Set). Among his books are, "The Bow-Legged Ghost, and Other Stories," "Wildcat Lodge." Mr. Mead contributed verses to THE CHAUTAUQUAN and a study of "The Songs of Freedom." "Classical Influences upon American Literature, ""Sources and Uses of Poetry," and "The Tyranny of Rhyme" are the titles of suggestive literary essays contributed by William Cranston Lawton. Professor Lawton [born New Bedford, Massachusetts] has been teaching classics since 1873; for the past seven years at Adelphi College, Brooklyn. He is a graduate of Harvard, class of 1873. He spent a number of years in Germany, Greek lands, and Italy. From 1889 to 1894 he was secretary of the Archæological Institute and founded societies in a number of American cities. Among his books are "Art and Humanity in Homer" and "New England Poets." A "School History of American Literature" is in press. Poems by Professor Lawton are included in Higginson's " American Sonnets," Stedman's "Anthology," and Warner's "Library of American Literature." He is a frequent "Contributors' Club" writer in The Atlantic. The paper on "Henry Timrod: a Southern Poet" was written by Stockton Axson, assistant professor of English literature in Princeton University since 1899. Mr. Axson was born at Rome, Georgia. He was educated at the University of Georgia, Wesleyan University (class of 1890) and Johns Hopkins University. He became professor of English literature in the University of Vermont, 1892-94; staff lecturer of the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, 1894-96; professor of English literature in Adelphi College (Brooklyn), 1896-99. Last year Professor Axson was a member of the Chautauqua Summer School faculty, and gave a very popular series of lectures on English literature. Miss Grace Adèle Pierce, author of the article on "Sonnet and Sonneteer," is a western New York writer. She appeared 66 on the Chautauqua program in 1899, lecturing on "The Art of Story-Telling," and she is a member of the Chautauqua Assembly Herald staff this year. Her first volume, 'Child Study of the Classics," was published in 1898. These tales from mythology first appeared in leading periodicals. Her latest production is a volume of verses entitled "The Silver Cord and the Golden Bowl." Jack London's conception of "The Shrinkage of the Planet" was a picturesque contribution to present-day thought. Mr. London was born in San Francisco in 1876. He left the University of California to go to the Klondike, he has been before the mast, hunted seals in Bering sea, and tramped in the United States and Canada. His first story appeared in the Overland Monthly in 1899. "The Son of the Wolf" is an already famous volume of short stories of Alaska. Gustav Kobbe, a New York author and journalist, furnished "The Evolution of Comic Art," "Famous Lighthouses of the World," and "Ben Austrian, Painter," with special illustrations. Mr. Kobbe is a graduate of Columbia, is connected with the editorial management of the New York Herald. He is the author of most of the Century's "Heroes of Peace" series, and among his books are "The Ring of the Nibelung" and "Wagner's Life and Works," two volumes. The article on "Love and Marriage in Italy" was written by Lena Lindsay Pepper. Miss Pepper attended Wooster University, and with her sister spent four years in Italy. (Their father, the late Rev. George W. Pepper, was United States consul at Milan.) Miss Pepper has also traveled much in her own country and on the continent, making lengthy visits to Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London. For ten years she was a correspondent to the Chicago Record, furnishing much of the material for their column on foreign celebrities. She had a series of Italian sketches and stories in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, including "A Summer on Lake Maggiore," "A Winter in Lombardy," "The Silk Worm in Italy,' ""Art Students Abroad," and others. An article of hers in Kate Field's Washington some years ago, entitled, "What Is a Lady?" caused much comment in the newspapers. 66 "Rational Etiquette in Social Life" and "The Moral Aspect of Insomnia," two practical life" essays, were written by Agnes H. Morton. Miss Morton was born at Port au Prince, Hayti, where her parents were missionaries for two years. For eleven years she taught in schools of Plainfield, New Jersey. She was graduated from the National School of Elocution and Oratory at Philadelphia, and had the department of literature and criticism in that school for a number of years, in addition to teaching in leading Philadelphia seminaries. Besides her literary work Miss Morton now teaches in St. Agnes's School and St. Joseph's Academy, St. Paul. Among her books are Etiquette" and Our Conversational Circle.” 66 Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, ex-president of Wellesley College, wrote the paper on "The Problem of Happiness." Mrs. Palmer was born at Colesville, New York; graduated from the University of Michigan, class of 1876; taught at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Saginaw, Michigan, before becoming professor of history at Wellesley in 1879. From 1881 to 1887 she was president of Wellesley; from 1892 to 1895 dean of woman's department, University of Chicago. Mrs. Palmer is a leading member and officer of numerous educational organizations. Ada Sterling, the author of "Voice in Speech" and the illustrated series, “Italian Laces, Old and New," "The Making of Venice Laces," "Antique and Modern French Lace," is one of the editors of Harper's Bazar. She was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, educated partially at Meriden, Connecticut, and partially abroad. She was editor of Fashions prior to taking her present position, opened the department of musical criticism in Collier's Weekly in 1898, and has contributed special articles to Collier's and many of the leading newspapers and magazines. "The Storming of Awatobi" and "Indian Basketry in House Decoration" were written by George Wharton James, ethnological ex The short stories which have appeared in THE CHAUTAUQUAN have been outside the conventional. "The Story of a Michigan Farm" was founded upon family history from the time the writer's father moved to Michigan until his death. The author was Andrew Burns Chalmers, now pastor of the Grand Avenue Congregational Church, New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Chalmers was born in Algoma, Michigan, was educated at Eureka College, Illinois, and the University of Michigan. He taught district schools, and was principal of the high school at Sparta, Michigan. He was successively pastor in Columbus, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio (one of the founders of Hiram House Social Settlement); and Saginaw, Michigan, before his call to New Haven in 1901. "Better 'an a Circus" was a western Chautauqua assembly story. The author, Lillian V. Lambert, is teacher of English literature in the Des Moines, Iowa, East Side High School. She was born in Austin, Minnesota, educated at Penn College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, and the University of Chicago, class of 1895. This summer Miss Lambert will have charge of the literature department at the Monteagle Chautauqua Assembly. "The Case of Ghastly Burke" and "The Second Probation of Rev. Kid McHugh" were stories of the coal mining regions, which will become part of a book of such stories now in press. The author, William Futhey Gibbons, is pastor of the Dunmore, Pennsylvania, Presbyterian church. He was born at Lenape, Chester county, Pennsylvania, and entered the office of the Westchester News at the age of sixteen. He attended Bucknell University and was graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1890. Resulting from his special studies along sociological lines many articles have appeared over the nom de plume Gillam W. Ford. "The Travail of Earth's Children" was written by Mrs. Lillian True Bryant, of Bangor, Maine. A request for a photograph brings the information that home and three generations of valuable possessions of a literary and musical family have been destroyed by fire. Mrs. Bryant was educated in Boston schools and, for music, abroad. |
