The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections. 1918. A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector. 1921. For reviews, see _Book Review Digest_, 1921. +Meredith Nicholson+--novelist, man of letters. Born at Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1866. His reputation was founded upon the novel, _The House of a Thousand Candles_, 1905. He has published also several volumes of essays and studies, beginning with _The Hoosiers_ (National Studies in American Letters), 1900. Note among them _The Valley of Democracy_, 1918, a characterization of the Middle West. For bibliography, cf. _Who's Who In America_. +Charles Gilman Norris+--novelist. Brother of Frank Norris, the novelist. Married Kathleen Thompson (cf. Kathleen Norris). BIBLIOGRAPHY The Amateur. Salt: The Education of Griffith Adams. 1918. Brass. 1921. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Bookm. 47 ('18): 679. New Repub. 29 ('21): 48. (Lovett.) See also _Book Review Digest_, 1918, 1921. +Kathleen Norris+--novelist. Born at San Francisco, 1880. Educated privately. Had experience as business woman. Married Charles Gilman Norris (q.v.), 1909. BIBLIOGRAPHY Mother. 1911. The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne. 1912. *"Saturday's Child." 1914. The Story of Julia Page. 1915. The Heart of Rachael. 1916. Martie, the Unconquered. 1917. The Beloved Woman. 1921. Lucretia Lombard. 1922. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Overton. Bookm. 34 ('11): 437 (portrait); 37 ('13): 109 (portrait). See also _Book Review Digest_, 1911, 1913-7. +Grace Fallow Norton+--poet. Born at Northfield, Minnesota, 1876. BIBLIOGRAPHY Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph's. 1912. The Sister of the Wind. 1914. Roads. 1916. What is Your Legion? 1916. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Poetry, 5 ('14): 87; 11 ('17): 164. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1912, 1914, 1916. +Frederick O'Brien+--travel writer. Mr. O'Brien's account of his experiences in the Marquesas Islands created a literary fashion for the South Sea Islands. BIBLIOGRAPHY White Shadows in the South Seas. 1919. Mystic Isles of the South Seas. 1921. See _Book Review Digest_, 1919, 1921. +Eugene Gladstone O'Neill+--dramatist. Born in New York City, 1888. Son of the actor, James O'Neill. Studied at Princeton, 1906-7. Much of the material used in his plays seems to be drawn from or based upon his adventurous experiences between 1907 and 1914. Actor and newspaper reporter. Spent two years at sea. In 1909, is said to have gone on a gold-prospecting expedition in Spanish Honduras (cf. _Gold_). Lived in the Argentine. Threatened tuberculosis gave him his first leisure (cf. _The Straw_). In 1914-5, he studied dramatization at Harvard. In 1918, when he married, he went to live in a deserted life-saving station near Provincetown. Associated with the Provincetown Players. In 1920, his _Beyond the Horizon_ was given the Pulitzer Prize. SUGGESTIONS FOR READING