CHURCHILL, WINSTON (1871- ), b. St. Louis, Mo. Home in Cornish, N. H. Novelist. _Richard Carvel, The Crisis,_ and _The Crossing_ are interesting novels of American historical events. _Mr. Crewe's Career._ CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN (1810-1888), b. Hanover, N. H. Noted Unitarian clergyman. _Orthodoxy: Its Truths and Errors_, _Ten Great Religions_, _Self-Culture._ CONE, HELEN GRAY (1859- ), b. New York, N. Y. Poet. _Oberon and Puck_, _The Ride to the Lady_, _Verses Grave and Gay._ COOKE, ROSE TERRY (1827-1892), b. West Hartford, Conn. Poet and short-story writer. _The Two Villages_ is her best-known poem, and _The Deacon's Week_ one of her best stories. CRAIGIE, PEARL MARY TERESA ("John Oliver Hobbes") (1867-1906), b. Boston, Mass. Novelist. _School for Saints_, _The Herb Moon_, _The Flute of Pan_, _The Tales of John Oliver Hobbes._ CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE (1813-1892), b. Alexandria, Va. Educated in Massachusetts. Artist, transcendental poet, and contributor to _The Dial_. Best poems, _Gnosis, I in Thee._ CRANE, STEPHEN (1870-1900), b. Newark, N. J. Novelist. _The Red Badge of Courage_ is a remarkable romance of the American Civil War. CRAWFORD, FRANCIS MARION (1854-1909), b. Bagni di Lucca, Italy. Voluminous writer of novels and romances. Some are historical, and the scenes of the best of them are laid in Italy. He wrote his _Zoroaster_ and _Marzio's Crucifix_ in both English and French, and received a reward of one thousand francs from the French Academy. _Saracinesca_, _Sant' Ilario_, and _Don Orsino_, a trio of novels about one Roman family, and _Katherine Lauderdale_ and its sequel, _The Ralstons_, are among his best works. CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM (1824-1892), b. Providence, R. I. Literary and political essayist, civil service reformer, and critic. Was a resident in his youth at Brook Farm. Spent four years of his early life in foreign travel. _Nile Notes of a Howadji_ and _The Howadji in Syria_ are poetic descriptions of his trip. His masterpiece is _Prue and I_, a prose idyl of simple, contented, humble life. The largest part of his work was done as editor. He was editor of _Putnam's Magazine_ at the time of its failure in 1857, and undertook to pay up every creditor, a task which consumed sixteen years. He wrote the _Easy Chair_ papers in _Harper's Monthly_. A volume of these essays contains some of his easiest, most urbane, and humorous writings. They are light and in the vein of Addison's _Spectator_. In _Orations and Addresses_ are to be found some of his strongest and most polished speeches on moral, historical, and political subjects. DANA, RICHARD HENRY, SR. (1787-1879), b. Cambridge, Mass. Author, diplomat, judge. Co-editor _North American Review_ when it published Bryant's _Thanatopsis_. Champion of the romantic school of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Dana's best known poem, _The Buccaneer_, shows the influence of this school.