nd in the Rose Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural. 1903.
The Givers. 1904.
The Debtor. A Novel. 1905.
"Doc." Gordon. 1906.
By the Light of the Soul. 1906.
The Fair Lavinia. 1907.
The Shoulders of Atlas. A Novel. 1908.
The Winning Lady. 1909.
The Green Door. 1910.
The Butterfly House. 1912.
The Yates Pride. 1912.
The Copy-Cat and Other Stories. 1914.
An Alabaster Box. 1917. (With Florence Morse Kingsley.)
Edgewater People. 1918.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Halsey. (Women.)
Harkins. (Women.)
Overton.
Pattee.

Atlan. 83 ('99): 665.
Bk. Buyer, 8 ('91): 53 (portrait); 23 ('01): 379.
Bookm. 24 ('06): 20 (portrait).
Bookm. (Lond.) 24 ('06): 20 (portrait).
Bk. News, 11 ('93): 227.
Citizen, 4 ('98): 27.
Critic, 20 ('92): 13; 22 ('93): 256 (portrait); 32 ('98): 155
(portraits).
Harp. W. 47 ('03): 1879; 49 ('05): 1940. (Portraits.)

+Alice French ("Octave Thanet")+--novelist.

Born at Andover, Massachusetts, and educated at Abbott Academy there;
Litt. D., University of Iowa, 1911.

Upon going to live in the Middle West, Miss French became interested in
the local color of Iowa and Arkansas and in the labor conditions with
which she came in contact as a member of a family of manufacturers. The
sociological and propagandist elements are strong in her work.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Knitters in the Sun. 1887.
Stories of a Western Town. 1893.
The Man of the Hour. 1905.
The Lion's Share. 1907.
By Inheritance. 1910.
Stories That End Well. 1911.
A Step on the Stair. 1913.
And the Captain Answered. 1917.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Harkins. (Women.)
Patee.

Arena, 38 ('07): 683 (portrait), 691.
Cur. Lit. 28 ('00): 143.

+Robert Lee Frost+--poet.

Born at San Francisco, 1875. At the age of ten, he was taken to New
England where eight generations of his forefathers had lived. In 1892, he
spent a few months at Dartmouth College but disliking college routine,
decided to earn his living, and became a millhand in Lawrence,
Massachusetts. In 1897, two years after he had married, he entered
Harvard and studied there for two years; but he finally gave up the idea
of a degree and turned to various kinds of work, teaching, shoe-making,
and newspaper work. From 1900-11, he was farming at Derry, New Hampshire,
but with little success. At the same time, he was writing and offering
for publication poems whi