98-9.
Honorary Curator of Ornithology, New York Zooelogical Society since 1899;
director of the British Guiana Zooelogical Station. Has traveled
extensively in Asia, South America, and Mexico, especially, for purposes
of observation.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. Although Mr. Beebe is preeminently an ornithologist, he belongs to
literature by reason of the volumes of nature studies listed below. A
comparison of his books with those of the English ornithologist, W.H.
Hudson (cf. Manly and Rickert, _Contemporary British Literature_) is
illuminative of the merits of both.

2. Another interesting comparison may be made between Mr. Beebe's
descriptions of the jungle in _Jungle Peace_ and H.M. Tomlinson's in _Sea
and Jungle_ (cf. Manly and Rickert, _op. cit._).

3. An analysis of the use of suggestion in appeal to the different senses
brings out one of the main sources of Mr. Beebe's charm as a writer.

4. Read aloud several fine passages to observe the prose rhythms.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Two Bird Lovers in Mexico. 1905.
The Log of the Sun. 1906.
Our Search for a Wilderness. 1910. (With Mrs. Beebe.)
Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana. 1917.
*Jungle Peace. 1918.
Edge of the Jungle. 1921.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Nation, 106 ('18): 213.
Science, n.s. 50 ('19): 473.
Spec. 95 ('05): 1128.
Travel, 38 ('21): 17 (portrait).
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1921.

+David Belasco+--dramatist.

Born at San Francisco, 1859. Stage manager of various theatres and
producer of many plays. Owner and manager of Belasco Theatre, New York
City.

His most successful recent play, _The Return of Peter Grimm_ (1911), is
printed by Baker, _Modern American Plays_, 1920, and by Moses,
_Representative Plays by American Dramatists_, 1918-21, III. For
bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 763.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Eaton, W.P. Plays and Players. 1916.
Moses.
Winter, William. Life of David Belasco. 1918.
Acad. 83 ('12): 673.
Nation, 100 ('10): 525.
New Repub. 8 ('16): 155.
Theatre Arts M. 5 ('21): 259=Outlook, 127 ('21): 418 (portrait).

+Stephen Vincent Benet+--poet, novelist.

Born at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1898; brother of William Rose Benet
(q.v.) Graduate of Yale, 1919.

Mr. Benet's work at once attracted attention by its qualities of
exuberance and fancy. In 1921, he shared with Carl Sandburg (q.v.) the
prize of the Poetry Societ