United States for several years; has traveled in
Japan and Australasia. Received the Noble Prize for Literature 1907;
honorary degrees from McGill University, Durham, Oxford, and
Cambridge. Among his books are "Departmental Ditties," "Plain Tales
from the Hills," "Under the Deodars," "Phantom' Rickshaw," "Wee Willie
Winkle," "Life's Handicap," "The Light That Failed," "Barrack-Room
Ballads," "The Jungle Book," "The Second Jungle Book," "The Seven
Seas," "Captains Courageous," "The Day's Work," "Kim," "Just So
Stories," "Puck of Pook's Hill," "Actions and Reactions," "Rewards and
Fairies," "Fringes of the Fleet," and "Sea Warfare." _If_, 4; _When
Earth's Last Picture Is Painted_, 230.

KISER, SAMUEL ELLSWORTH. Born at Shippenville, Pa. Educated in Pennsylvania
and Ohio. Began newspaper work in Cleveland, and from 1900 until 1914
was editorial and special writer for the Chicago _Record-Herald_.
Noted for his humorous sketches, which have been widely syndicated.
His poem "Unsubdued" is, like Henley's "Invictus," a splendid
portrayal of undaunted courage in the face of defeat. Among his books
are "Georgie," "Charles the Chauffeur," "Love Sonnets of an Office
Boy," "Ballads of the Busy Days," "Sonnets of a Chorus Girl," "The
Whole Glad Year," and "The Land of Little Care." _A Little Prayer;
December 31; Faith; It May Be; My Creed; The Fighter; Unsubdued_.

KNOX, J. MASON. _Co-operation_.

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LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH. Born at Portland, Me., Feb. 27, 1807; died
at Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 24, 1882. Graduated from Bowdoin College
1825; traveled in Europe 1826-9; professor of modern languages at
Bowdoin 1829-34; again visited Europe 1835-6; professor of modern
languages and belles lettres at Harvard College 1836-54; European
travel 1868-9. Some of his best-known poems are "A Psalm of Life,"
"The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Skeleton
in Armor," "The Bridge," "Evangeline," "The Building of the Ship,"
"Hiawatha," "The Courtship of Miles Standish," and "Tales of a Wayside
Inn"; author of two novels, "Hyperion" and "Kavanagh"; translator of
Dante's "Divine Comedy." _A Psalm of Life; The Arrow and the Song_.

LOVELACE, RICHARD. Born in Kent, 1618; died at London, 1658. Educated
at Oxford; imprisoned for support of the royalist cause 1642 and 1648;
released from prison after the execution of King Charles I, but his
estate had been ruined