The Best Short Stories of 1918 Part 61

Citizen Paper.

*FISHER, DOROTHY CANFIELD.*

_See_ *CANFIELD, DOROTHY.*

*FREEDLEY, MARY MITCh.e.l.l.* Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 14, 1894.

Granddaughter of S. Weir Mitch.e.l.l. Previous to her marriage she was much interested in the betterment of economic conditions relating to woman's labor, and at one time organized and managed The Philadelphia Trades School for Girls. She is the wife of an actor, Vinton Freedley, and her interests are mainly of the stage and things theatrical. She has never done any previous writing and is at present chiefly concerned with the business of "being a woman" and the wife of a soldier.

*Blind Vision.

(1234) *FREEMAN, MARY E. WILKINS.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Jade Bracelet

(4) *GEER, CORNELIA THROOP.* Born in New York City, Feb. 15, 1894.

Educated at Brearley School, New York. Graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, 1917. Instructor in English, Bryn Mawr College, 1918. Interested in Woman's Land Army of America, and worked as farm hand at its Bedford Unit in summers of 1917 and 1918. First published story, "Pearls Before Swine," Atlantic Monthly, October, 1917. Lives in New York City.

*Irish of It.

*GEROULD, GORDON HALL.* Born at Goffstown, N. H., Oct. 4, 1877. Graduate of Dartmouth College and Oxford University. Studied also in Paris. On Faculty of Bryn Mawr College, 1901 to 1905, and since that time successively a.s.sistant Professor and Professor of English at Princeton University. Captain Ordnance Department, U. S. A., 1918. Married Katharine Fullerton, 1910. First story published, "Justification,"

Scribner's Magazine, October, 1911. Publications largely the result of studies in mediaeval literature, folk lore, and hagiography, appearing in learned journals here and abroad. Books: "Sir Guy of Warwick," 1905, "Selected Essays of Henry Fielding," 1905; "The Grateful Dead," 1908; "Saints' Lives," 1916; "Peter Sanders, Retired," 1917. Lives in Princeton, N. J.

*Imagination.

(1234) *GEROULD, KATHARINE FULLERTON.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Marchpane.

*GILBERT, GEORGE.* Born in Binghamton, N. Y., Sept. 27, 1874. Educated in public schools. Became newsboy, messenger, "rambler," telegrapher, lineman, and press operator before reaching eighteen. Served as editor-in-chief of several important inland newspapers. Confidential clerk to Republican whip, J. W. Dwight, in Congressional sessions 1909-10. An editor again in Binghamton. First published story, "The Encouragement of Reuben," Pets and Animals, July and August, 1900. Chief interests: Mrs. Gilbert, their son, flower garden, fishing, playing typewriter sonatas. Lives in Binghamton, N. Y.

Ashes of Roses.

*In Maulmain Fever-Ward.

(4) *GLASPELL, SUSAN.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*"Beloved Husband."

*"Poor Ed."

*GOODMAN, HENRY.* Born in Roumania of Jewish parents, May 30, 1893. Came to the United States in 1900. Graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism in 1915. Subsequently journalist on the New York Tribune and New York World. First story published, "Billy's Mother," Pearson's Magazine, June, 1917. Chief interest, writing poetry and short stories.

Lives in New York City.

Conquered.

(134) *GORDON, ARMISTEAD C.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Sinjinn, Surviving.

*HALDEMAN-JULIUS, EMANUEL.* _See_ _Julius, Emanuel Haldeman-_.

*HALL, MAY EMERY.* Born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1874. Educated at high and normal schools in Providence, supplemented by special University courses. Taught for five years in Providence public schools.

Chief interests, the World War, study and travel. Author of "Dutch Days," 1914, "Roger Williams," 1917. Writer of magazine articles. Lives at Douglaston, L. I., N. Y.

Whiteford's Masterpiece.

(3) *HAWES, CHARLES BOARDMAN.*

*Even So.

(2) *HECHT, BEN.* Born in New York City, Feb. 28, 1896. But left for the Middle West as soon as he learned to walk. Educated in public schools, Racine, Wis. Has always wanted to be an anthropologist. First published story, "Life," Little Review, November, 1915. Lives in Chicago.

*Decay.

(4) *HEMENWAY, HETTY.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Their War.

*"HENRY, ETTA."* Pseudonym of a woman student at Columbia University, who has published several excellent short stories. Lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Kaddish.

*HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH.* Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1880. Educated at a Quaker school in Philadelphia and at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His first magazine contribution was a set of prose impressions of Atlantic City in The Forum, September, 1913. Author of "The Lay Anthony," 1914; "Mountain Blood," 1915; "The Three Black Pennys," 1917; "Gold and Iron," 1918; "Java Head," 1919. Lives in West Chester, Pa.

Black Key.

*HOUGH, EMERSON.* Born at Newton, Ia., June 28, 1857. High school education at Newton, and graduated from State University of Iowa, 1880.

Practised law in New Mexico in 1882. Came to Chicago in 1889 and had charge of the Western office of Forest and Stream, 1889 to 1902. Fond of amateur sport. "I have never seen a game of professional baseball and don't intend to. I care little for the movies, and detest the comic supplements of the Sunday newspapers. I read moderately and like historical fiction of the old type. I don't care so much for jig-time and jazz-time." First published story, "Far from the Crowd," Forest and Stream, about 1881. "My father was a great sportsman, a great mathematician, a great Christian. I myself have always been a sportsman, but as to mathematics and Christianity I do not say so much." Author of "The Singing Mouse Stories," 1895; "The Story of the Cowboy," 1897; "The Girl at the Half-way House," 1900; "The Mississippi Bubble," 1902; "The Way to the West," 1903; "The Law of the Land," 1904; "Heart's Desire,"

1905; "The King of Gee Whiz," 1906; "The Story of the Outlaw," 1906; "The Way of a Man," 1907; "Fifty-four Forty or Fight," 1909; "The Sowing," 1909; "The Young Alaskans," 1910; "The Purchase Price," 1911; "Young Alaskans on the Trail," 1911; "John Rawn," 1912; "The Lady and the Pirate," 1913; "Young Alaskans in the Rockies," 1913; "The Magnificent Adventure," 1915; "The Man Next Door," 1916; "The Broken Gate," 1917; "Young Alaskans in the Far North," 1918; "The Way Out,"

1918. President of the Society of Midland Authors. Lives in Chicago.

Clan Gordon.

(2) *HUGHES, RUPERT.* Born in Lancaster, Mo., Jan. 31, 1872. Educated at public schools, Lancaster, Mo., and Keokuk, Ia. Graduate of Western Reserve University, 1892, M.A. (Yale), 1899. Chief interests: literature, military work, music, and history. Married, 1908. a.s.sistant editor G.o.dey's Magazine, Current Literature, and The Criterion before 1901. With Encyclopedia Britannica, 1902 to 1905. Captain U. S. A. on Mexican border service, 1916. a.s.sistant to Adjutant-General, New York, 1917. Now Major in the U. S. A., stationed at Washington, D. C. First short story published, probably "The Man Who Could Stop His Heart," The Adelbert, 1889. Books: "The Lake Rim Athletic Club," 1898; "The Dozen from Lake Rim," 1899; "American Composers," 1900; "Gyges' Ring," 1901; "The Whirlwind," 1902; "The Musical Guide," 1903; "Love Affairs of Great Musicians," 1903; "Songs by Thirty Americans," 1904; "Zal," 1905; "Colonel Crockett's Cooperative Christmas," 1906; "The Lake Rim Cruise,"

1910; "The Gift-Wife," 1910; "Excuse Me," 1911; "Miss 318," 1911; "The Old Nest," 1912; "The Amiable Crimes of Dirk Memling," 1913; "The Lady Who Smoked Cigars," 1913; "What Will People Say?" 1914; "The Music Lovers' Cyclopedia," 1914; "The Last Rose of Summer," 1914; "Empty Pockets," 1915; "Clipped Wings," 1916; "The Thirteenth Commandment,"

1916; "In a Little Town," 1917; "We Can't Have Everything," 1917; "Long Ever Ago," 1918; "The Unpardonable Sin," 1918; and many successful plays. Lives at Bedford Hills, N. Y.

*At the Back of G.o.d Speed.

*HUMPHREY, GEORGE.* Born at Boughton, Eng., July 17, 1889. Educated at Faversham School, England; Oxford and Leipsig Universities. Professor of ancient history at Saint Francis Xavier's University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Now at Harvard University.

*Father's Hand.

(234) *HURST, FANNIE.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Hers _Not_ to Reason Why.

(2) *JOHNSON, ARTHUR.* Born in Boston, 1881. Graduate of Harvard University. Practised law since 1905. Chief interests: his profession, poetry, human nature, literature, art. Cares more for poetry than anything else. First story published, "Frankie and Jenny," American Magazine, December, 1913. Now engaged in war work at Washington. Home, Cambridge, Ma.s.s.

His New Mortal Coil.

*Little Family.