1916-20.

+Henry Kitchell Webster+--novelist.

Born at Evanston, Illinois, 1875. Ph.M., Hamilton College, 1897.
Instructor in rhetoric at Union College, 1897-8. Since then he has given
his time entirely to writing novels.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Short Line War. 1899. (With Samuel Merwin.)
Calumet "K". 1901. (With Samuel Merwin.)
The Real Adventure. 1916.
The Painted Scene. 1916. (Short stories.)
The Thoroughbred. 1917.
An American Family. 1918.
Mary Wollaston. 1920.
Real Life. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 26 ('07): 4 (portrait only).
Everybody's, 37 ('17): Nov., p. 16 (portrait).
New Repub. 9 ('16): 133.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920.

+Winifred Welles+--poet.

Born at Norwich Town, Connecticut, 1893, and educated in the vicinity.
Her first volume, _The Hesitant Heart_, 1920, attracted attention for its
lyric beauty.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 51 ('20): 457.
New Repub. 23 ('20): 156.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1920, 1921.

+Rita Wellman (Mrs. Edgar F. Leo)+--dramatist.

Born at Washington, D.C., 1890. Daughter of Walter Wellman, the airman
and explorer. Educated in public schools and the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Gentile Wife. 1919.
Wings of Desire. 1919. (Novel.)
Funiculi Funicula. 1919. (Mayorga.)

+Edith (Newbold Jones) Wharton+--novelist, short-story writer.

Born in New York City, 1862. Educated at home but spent much time abroad
when she was young. Mrs. Wharton is a society woman and a great lover of
outdoors and of animals. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Mrs. Wharton's friendship with Henry James and the derivation of her
methods from his suggest an interesting comparison of the work of these
two writers. For this comparison, books treating of similar material
should be chosen; for example, Mrs. Wharton's _The Custom of the Country_
or _Madame de Treymes_ with Mr. James's _Portrait of a Lady_ or _The
Ambassadors_. The result will show that Mrs. Wharton, having an
essentially different type of mind, has worked out an interesting set of
variations of Mr. James's method.

2. Mrs. Wharton's novels of American social life should be studied and
judged separately from her Italian historical novel (_The Valley of
Decision_) and from her New England stories, _Ethan Frome_ and _Summer_.

3. Two special phases o