re "Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable," "Captain Jenks, Hero," "Swords
and Plowshares," "Tolstoi and His Message," and "Labor and Neighbor."
_Life and Death_.

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DEKKER, THOMAS. Born at London, about 1570; died about 1641. Little is
known of his life; imprisoned several times; had literary quarrels
with Ben Jonson. Lived in the great period of the English drama (the
age of Shakespeare); wrote many of his plays in collaboration with
other writers of the period. Among his best-known plays are "The
Shoe-makers' Holiday" and "Old Fortunatus." _The Happy Heart_.

DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN. Born at New York City, Aug. 7, 1795; died there
Sept. 21, 1820. Author of "The Culprit Fay" and "The American Flag."
_The Man Who Frets at Worldly Strife_.

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ELIOT, GEORGE (Mary Ann Evans Lewes Cross). Born at Arbury Farm,
Warwickshire, Eng., Nov. 22, 1819; died at Chelsea, London, Dec. 22,
1880. Educated at Nuneaton and Coventry; assistant editor of the
_Westminster Review_ 1851-3. Lived with George Henry Lewes from 1854
until his death in 1878; married John Walter Cross in 1880. Among her
books (mostly novels) are "Adam Bede," "The Mill on the Floss," "Silas
Marner," "Romola," "Felix Holt," "The Spanish Gypsy," "Middlemarch,"
"Daniel Deronda," and "Impressions of Theophrastus Such." _You May
Count That Day_.

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO. Born at Boston, Mass., May 25, 1803; died at
Concord, Mass., Apr. 27, 1882. Graduated at Harvard College 1821,
working his way; taught school; began to study for the ministry 1823;
licensed to preach 1826; trip to the South for his health 1827-8;
Unitarian minister in Boston 1829-32; European travel 1832-3; settled
at Concord 1834; lectured extensively for over thirty years.
Contributed to the _Dial_ 1840-4; visited Europe 1847-8 and 1872-3.
Lectured at Harvard 1868-70. Some of his works are "Nature," "The
American Scholar," "Essays" (first and second series), "Representative
Men," "English Traits," "The Conduct of Life," and "Society and
Solitude." _Duty; Fable_.

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FOLEY, JAMES WILLIAM. Born at St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4, 1874. Educated at
the University of South Dakota. Member of Masonic Order and Past Grand
Master of Masons. Had early ranch experience; knew Theodore Roosevelt
during his ranching days. Began newspaper work on the Bismarck, N.
Dak., _Tribune_ 1892. During the Great War he served seventeen months
in army camps as a