1. The autobiographical element in Mr. Anderson's work is marked and should never be forgotten in judging his work. The conventional element is easily discoverable as patched on, particularly in the long books. 2. To realize the qualities that make some critics regard Mr. Anderson as perhaps our most promising novelist, examples should be noted of the following qualities which he possesses to a striking degree: (1) independence of literary traditions and methods; (2) a keen eye for details; (3) a passionate desire to interpret life; (4) a strong sense of the value of individual lives of little seeming importance. 3. Are Mr. Anderson's defects due to the limitations of his experience, or do you notice certain temperamental defects which he is not likely to outgrow? 4. Mr. Anderson's experiments in form are interesting to study. Compare the prosiness of his verse with his efforts to use poetic cadence in _The Triumph of the Egg_. Does it suggest to you the possibility of developing a form intermediate between prose and free verse? 5. Does Mr. Anderson succeed best as novelist or as short-story writer? Why? BIBLIOGRAPHY Windy McPherson's Son. 1916. (Novel.) Marching Men. 1917. (Novel.) Mid-American Chants. 1918. (Poems.) Winesburg, Ohio. 1919. Poor White. 1920. (Novel.) The Triumph of the Egg. 1921. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Bookm. 45 ('17): 302 (portrait), 307. Dial, 72 ('22): 29, 79. Freeman, 2 ('21) 1403; 4 ('21): 281. New Repub. 9 ('17): 333; 24 ('20): 330; 28 ('21): 383. New Statesman, 8 ('17): 330. Poetry, 12 ('18): 155. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1920, 1921. +Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews+--(+Mrs. William Shankland Andrews+)--short-story writer, novelist. BIBLIOGRAPHY *The Perfect Tribute. 1906. The Militants. 1907. *The Lifted Bandage. 1910. The Counsel Assigned. 1912. The Marshal. 1912. The Three Things. 1915. Joy in the Morning. 1919. His Soul Goes Marching On. 1922. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Bookm. 27 ('08): 155. Nation, 85 ('07): 58. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1912, 1915, 1919. +Mary Antin (Mrs. Amadeus W. Grabau)+--writer. Born at Polotzk, Russia, 1881. Came to America in 1894. Educated in American schools. Studied at Teachers' College, Columbia, 1901-2, and at Barnard College, 1902-4. Her second book attracted attention for its fresh and sympathetic treatment of the experiences of immigrants coming to this country. BIBLIOGRAPHY From Polotzk to Boston. 1899. *The Promised Land. 1912. They Who Knock at Our Gates. 1914. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Acad. 83 ('12): 637. Am. M. 77 ('14): Mar., p. 64 (portrait). Bookm. 35 ('12): 584. J. Educ. 81 ('15): 91. Lond. Times, Oct. 10, 1912: 420. Outlook, 104 ('13): 473 (portrait). +Walter Conrad Arensberg+--poet. Illustrates in his _Poems_, 1914, and _Idols_, 1916, conversion from the old forms of verse to the new. Cf. also _Others_, 1916.