California, but
left college to go to the Klondyke. In 1892, shipped before the mast.
Went to Japan; hunted seal in Behring Sea. Tramped far and wide in the
United States and Canada, in 1894, for social and economic study. War
correspondent in the Russian-Japanese War. Traveled extensively.
Socialist. Died in 1916.

His work is very uneven; but the following books are regarded as among
his best:

The Call of the Wild. 1903.
The Sea-Wolf. 1904.
Martin Eden. 1909. (Autobiographical.)
John Barleycorn. 1913. (Autobiographical.)

For an account of his life and work, see _The Book of Jack London_, by
Charmian London, 1921 (cf. _Freeman_, 4 ['22]: 407). For reviews, cf. the
_Book Review Digest_, especially 1903-7, 1911, 1915.

+Robert Morss Lovett+--man of letters.

Born at Boston, 1870. A.B., Harvard, 1892. Taught English at Harvard,
1892-3; at Chicago, since 1893; professor since 1909. Editor of _The
Dial_, 1919. On the staff of _The New Republic_, 1921--.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard Gresham. 1904. (Novel.)
A Winged Victory. 1907. (Novel.)
Cowards. 1917. (Play, published in _Drama_, 7.)

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Drama, 7 ('17): 325.

+Amy Lowell+--poet, critic.

Born at Brookline, Massachusetts, 1874. Sister of President Lowell of
Harvard, and of Percival Lowell, the astronomer. Distantly related to
James Russell Lowell. Educated at private schools. Traveled extensively
in Europe as a child. Her visits to Egypt, Greece, and Turkey influenced
her development. In 1902, she decided to become a poet and spent eight
years studying, without publishing a poem. Her first poem appeared in the
_Atlantic_, 1910.

She is a collector of Keats manuscripts and says that the poet who
influenced her most profoundly was Keats. She has also made special study
of Chinese poetry.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. As Miss Lowell is the principal exponent of the theories of imagism
and free verse in this country, careful reading of some of her critical
papers leads to a better understanding of her work. Especially valuable
are her studies of Paul Fort in her volume entitled _Six French Poets_,
of "H.D." and John Gould Fletcher in her _Tendencies in Modern American
Poetry_, the prefaces to different volumes of her poems and to the
anthologies published under the title _Some Imagist Poets_ (1915, 1916),
and her articles in the _Dial_, 64 ('18): 51 ff., and in Poetry, 3 ('13):
213 ff.

2. In judging he