Monthly Review_ 1900-04;
Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature; created a Knight
1915. Among his books are "Taken from the Enemy," "Mordred," "Admirals
All," "The Island Race," "The Old Country," "The Book of Cupid,"
"Poems Old and New," and "The New June." _Play the Game_, 162.

NOYES, ALFRED. Born in Staffordshire, Eng., Sept. 16, 1880. Educated at
Oxford; received honorary degree of Litt.D. from Yale 1913; gave the
Lowell Lectures in America on "The Sea in English Poetry" 1913;
elected to Professorship of Modern Poetry at Princeton 1914;
temporarily attached to the foreign office 1916. Among his books are
"Collected Poems" (three volumes), "The Elfin Artist," "The New
Morning," "The Lord of Misrule," "A Belgian Christmas Eve," "The
Wine-Press," "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern," "Sherwood," "The Enchanted
Island," "Drake," "Beyond the Desert," "Walking Shadows," "Open
Boats," "The Golden Hynde." "The Flower of Old Japan," and "A Salute
from the Fleet." _The New Duckling_, 34.

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O SHEEL, SHEAMUS. Born at New York City, Sept. 19, 1886. Educated in the
New York City grammar and high schools; took special work in English
and history at Columbia 1906-8. Member of the Poetry Society of
America and the Gaelic Society. Interested in political and civic
reforms. Among his books are "Blossomy Bough" and "The Light Feet of
Goats." _He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed_.

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PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER ("Barry Cornwall"). Born at Leeds, Eng., Nov. 21,
1787; died Oct. 5, 1874. Educated at Harrow; schoolmate of Byron and
Sir Robert Peel; called to the bar 1831; commissioner of lunacy
1832-61. Among his books are "Dramatic Scenes, and Other Poems," "A
Sicilian Story," "Flood of Thessaly," and "English Songs." _Sit Down,
Sad Soul_.

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RICE, GRANTLAND. Born at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 1, 1880. Attended
Vanderbilt University. Worked as sporting writer on the Atlanta
_Journal_; came to New York City in 1911. His sporting column, "The
Sportlight," is said to be more widely syndicated and more widely read
than any other writing on topics of sport in the United States. Irvin
S. Cobb says that it often reaches the height of pure literature, and
as a writer of homely, simple American verse Grantland Rice is held by
many to be the logical successor to James Whitcomb Riley. He is author
of "Songs of the Stalwart" and editor of the _American Golfer_. _Brave
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