Born at Philadelphia, 1871. Left college without a degree. Honorary higher degrees. In 1889 became a newspaper man, and since 1891 has been connected as reviewer, editorial writer, and "columnist" with Philadelphia newspapers; associate editor of the _Evening Ledger_, 1915-8. Mr. Daly has written good poetry in English, but is best known for the dialect verses which he has published in the columns edited by him. His most popular verses are in the Irish and Italian dialects. BIBLIOGRAPHY Canzoni. 1906. Carmina. 1909. Madrigali. 1912. Songs of Wedlock. 1916. McAroni Ballads. 1919. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Untermeyer. Am. M. 70 ('10): 750 (portrait); 89 ('20): June, p. 16. Dublin R. 155 (4 s., 46) ('14): 116. Outlook, 103 ('13): 261. Poetry, 16 ('20): 278. +Olive Tilford Dargan (Mrs. Pegram Dargan)+--poet, dramatist. Born in Kentucky. Educated at the University of Nashville and at Radcliffe. Taught in Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Canada until she married. Traveled abroad, 1910-14. Winner of $500 prize offered by the Southern Society of New York for best book by Southern writer, 1916. BIBLIOGRAPHY Semiramis and Other Plays. (Carlotta, The Poet.) 1904. Lords and Lovers and Other Dramas. (The Shepherd, The Siege.) 1906. The Mortal Gods and Other Dramas. (A Son of Hermes, Kidmir.) 1912. The Welsh Pony. 1913. (Privately printed.) Path Flower and Other Poems. 1914. The Cycle's Rim. 1916. The Flutter of the Goldleaf and Other Plays. 1922. (With Frederick Peterson.) STUDIES AND REVIEWS Bookm. 37 ('13): 123 (portrait). Outlook, 85 ('07): 328. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1913, 1914, 1916. +Mary Carolyn Davies+--poet. Born at Sprague, Washington, and educated in and near Portland, Oregon. As a freshman at the University of California, she won the Emily Chamberlin Cook prize for poetry, 1912, and also the Bohemian Club prize. The poems of Miss Davies express "the girl consciousness" (Kreymborg). BIBLIOGRAPHY The Drums in Our Street. 1918. (Poems.) The Slave with Two Faces. 1918. (Play.) Youth Riding. 1919. (Lyrics.) A Little Freckled Person. 1919. (Child Verse.) The Husband Test. 1921. Also in: Others, 1916, 1917. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Poetry, 12 ('18): 218. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919. +Fannie Stearns Davis.+ See +Fannie Stearns Davis Gifford+ +Margaret Wade Deland (Mrs. Lorin F. Deland)+--novelist, short-story writer. Born at a village called Manchester, now a part of Alleghany, Pennsylvania, 1857. Educated in private schools, and studied drawing and design at Cooper Institute. Later, taught design in a girls' school in New York City. Mrs. Deland's father was a Presbyterian and her mother an Episcopalian (cf. _John Ward, Preacher_), and her home town is the "Old Chester" of her books. BIBLIOGRAPHY