fe_; "_Might Have Been_"; _On Being Ready_; _On Down the Road_; _The
Answer_; _The Call of the Unbeaten_; _The Game_; _The Trainers_.

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB. Born at Greenfield, Ind., 1849; died at Indianapolis,
Ind., July 22, 1916. Public school education; received honorary degree
of M.A. from Yale 1902; Litt.D. from Wabash College 1903 and from the
University of Pennsylvania 1904, and LL.D. from Indiana University
1907. Began contributing poems to Indiana papers 1873; known as the
"Hoosier Poet," and much of his verse in the middle Western and
Hoosier dialect. Among his books are "The Old Swimmin' Hole,"
"Afterwhiles," "Old Fashioned Roses," "Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury,"
"Neighborly Poems," "Green Fields and Running Brooks," "Poems Here at
Home," "Child-Rhymes," "Love Lyrics," "Home Folks," "Farm-Rhymes," "An
Old Sweetheart of Mine," "Out to Old Aunt Mary's," "A Defective Santa
Claus," "Songs o' Cheer," "Boys of the Old Glee Club," "Raggedy Man,"
"Little Orphan Annie," "Songs of Home," "When the Frost Is on the
Punkin," "All the Year Round," "Knee-Deep in June," "A Song of Long
Ago," and "Songs of Summer." His complete works are issued by the
Bobbs-Merrill Company in the "Biographical Edition of James Whitcomh
Riley" 1913. _Just Be Glad_, 14; _My Philosophy_, 57.

RITTENHOUSE, JESSIE BELLE. Born at Mt. Morris, N.Y. Graduate of Genesee
Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N.Y.; teacher of Latin and English in a
private school at Cairo, Ill., and at Ackley Institute for Girls,
Grand Haven, Mich., 1893-4; active newspaper work and reviewer until
1900; contributor to New York _Times_ Review of Books and _The
Bookman_; lecturer on modern poetry in extension courses of Columbia
University. Her books are "The Little Book of Modern Verse," "The
Little Book of Modern American Verse," "Second Book of Modern Verse,"
"The Younger American Poets," and "The Door of Dreams." _My Wage_,
183.

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SERVICE, ROBERT WILLIAM. Born at Preston, Eng., Jan. 10, 1874. Educated
at Hillhead Public School, Glasgow; served apprenticeship with the
Commercial Bank of Scotland, Glasgow; emigrated to Canada and settled
on Vancouver Island; for a while engaged in farming, and later
traveled up and down the Pacific coast, following many occupations;
finally joined the staff of the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Victoria,
B.C., 1905; was later transferred to White Horse, Yukon Territory, and
then