Contemporary American Literature Part 4

Lewis, B. Roland. Contemporary One-Act Plays. 1922.

Mackay, Constance D'Arcy, The Little Theatre in the United States. 1917.

Appendix.

Mayorga, Margaret Gardner, Representative One-Act Plays by American Authors. 1919.

Plays for Amateurs; a Selected List Prepared by the Little Theatre Department of the New York Drama League. Wilson, 1921.

Riley, Alice C.D. The One-Act Play Study Course. 1918. (Drama League Monthly, Feb.-Apr.)

Shay, Frank, Plays and Books of the Little Theatre, 1921.

Shay, Frank, and Loving, P. Fifty Contemporary One-act Plays, 1920.

Stratton, Clarence, Producing in Little Theatres, 1921. (Appendix lists 200 plays for amateurs.)

OF SHORT STORIES

Hannigan, F.J. Standard Index to Short Stories, 1900-1914. 1918.

O'Brien, E.J.H. Best Short Stories for 1915, 1916, etc. (Published annually.)

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS

+Franklin Pierce Adams+--(Illinois, 1881)--humorous poet, "columnist."

Editor of "The Conning Tower" in the _New York World_.

For bibliography, cf. _Who's Who in America_.

+Henry (Brooks) Adams+--man of letters.

Born in Boston, 1838. Great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams, presidents of the United States. Brother of Charles Francis and Brooks Adams. A.B., Harvard, 1858, LL.D., Western Reserve, 1892.

Secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, American Minister to England, 1861-8. a.s.sistant professor at Harvard, 1870-7, and editor of _North American Review_, 1870-6.

Lived in Washington from 1877 until his death in 1918, but traveled extensively and knew many famous people.

In memory of his wife, he commissioned Saint Gaudens to make for her tomb in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, the statue sometimes called _Silence_, which is one of the sculptor's most beautiful works.

SUGGESTIONS FOR READING

1. _The Education of Henry Adams_ is autobiographic.

The persistent irony of the presentation should be corrected by reading Brooks Adams's account of his brother.

2. _Mont Saint Michel and Chartres_ is an attempt to interpret the spirit of mediaeval architecture, both secular and ecclesiastical. To appreciate it fully, familiarity with the subject is necessary.

The novels are worth study as satires.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Democracy. 1880. (Novel.) Esther. 1884. (Novel; under pseudonym, "Frances Snow Compton.") Historical Essays. 1891.

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres. 1904.

The Education of Henry Adams. 1918.

The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma. 1919.

Letters to a Niece and Prayer to the Virgin of Chartres. 1920.

Also in: A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Cambridge.

Ath. 1919, 1: 361; 1919, 2: 633; 1920, 1: 243, 665.

Atlan. 125 ('20): 623; 127 ('21): 140.

Bookm. (Lond.) 57 ('19): 30.

Cur. Op. 66 ('19): 108.

Dial, 65 ('18): 468.

Dublin Rev. 164 ('19): 218.

Harv. Grad. M. 26 ('18): 540.

Lond. Times, May 30, 1919: 290.

Nation, 106 ('18): 674.

New Repub. 15 ('18): 106.

New Statesman, 16 ('21): 711.

19th Cent. 85 ('19): 981.

Pol. Sci. Q. 34 ('19): 305.

Scrib. M. 69 ('21): 576 (portrait).

Spec. 122 ('19): 231.

World's Work, 4 ('02): 2324.

Yale Rev. n.s. 8 ('19): 580; n.s. 9 ('20): 271, 890.

+George Ade+--humorist, dramatist.

Born at Kentland, Indiana, 1866. B.S., Purdue University, 1887. Newspaper work at Lafayette, Indiana, 1887-90. On the _Chicago Record_, 1890-1900.

Although some of his earlier plays were successful and promised a career as dramatist, his reputation now rests chiefly upon his humorous modern fables.