The Best Short Stories of 1918 Part 62

*Visit of the Master.

(4) *JONES, (E.) CLEMENT.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Mongrel.

*JULIUS, EMANUEL HALDEMAN-.* Born in Philadelphia, July 30, 1888. Self educated. "I left home as a kid and meandered around doing odd jobs-from being a bell boy in a school for polite young ladies to holding copy in a newspaper proof room. At twenty I became a reporter in New York. Later I did newspaper work in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Los Angeles. I have edited and contributed to many labor and radical periodicals. I am managing editor of The New Appeal, which is the largest Socialist paper in the world. I am also director of a thoroughly capitalistic bank.

Married in 1916. My chief interest right now is in getting the baby weaned." Books: "The Color of Life," 1916; "Somewhere in Europe," 1917; "The Pest," 1916. Lives in Girard, Kans.

Ring.

(3) *KING, BASIL.* Born in Charlottetown, P. E. I., Canada, Feb. 26, 1859. Educated at St. Peter's School, Charlottetown, and King's College, Windsor, N. S. Married, 1893. First story published, "The Eleventh Hour," Atlantic Monthly, February, 1901. Books: "Griselda," 1901; "Let Not Man Put Asunder," 1902; "In the Garden of Charity," 1903; "Steps of Honor," 1905; "The Giant's Strength," 1906; "The Inner Shrine," 1909; "The Wild Olive," 1910; "The Street Called Straight," 1912; "The Way Home," 1913; "The Letter of the Contract," 1914; "The Side of the Angels," 1915; "The Lifted Veil," 1917; "The High Heart," 1917; "Abraham's Bosom," 1918. Lives in Boston.

Going West.

(4) *KLINE, BURTON* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*In the Open Code.

Singular Smile.

(4) *KRYSTO, CHRISTINA* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Mother of Stasya.

*LEWIS, SINCLAIR.* Born at Sauk Centre, Minn., Feb. 7, 1885. Educated at local schools, and graduate of Yale University. Newspaper reporter, a.s.sistant editor of Adventure and of Transatlantic Tales, editor of the Publishers' Newspaper Syndicate, editor for George H. Doran Company and Frederick A. Stokes Company. First published story appeared in Pacific Monthly about 1905. Books: "Our Mr. Wrenn," 1914; "The Trail of the Hawk," 1915; "Job," 1917; "The Innocents," 1917. Lives at Port Was.h.i.+ngton, L. I., N. Y.

*Willow Walk.

*LIEBERMAN, ELIAS.* Born in Petrograd, Russia, Oct. 30, 1883. His parents emigrated with him to New York in 1891. Graduate of the College of the City of New York and New York University. Head of the English Department, Bushwick High School, Brooklyn, N. Y. Aside from life itself, magazine and newspaper work has always been his chief interest.

First published story, "The Open Door," Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1913. Books: "The American Short Story," 1912; "Paved Streets," 1918. Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tower of Confusion.

(3) *MARKS, JEANNETTE.* Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., 1875. Educated in Philadelphia, Dresden, and Wellesley College. Has travelled much in England and Wales. Fond of outdoor sports. Lecturer in English literature at Mt. Holyoke College. Member of the Committee on Habit Forming Drugs, American Public Health a.s.sociation. First story published, "Mors Triumphans," Outlook, May 20, 1905. Books: "The Cheerful Cricket," 1907; "The English Pastoral Drama," 1908; "Through Welsh Doorways," 1909; "The End of a Song," 1911; "A Girl's School Days and After," 1911; "Gallant Little Wales," 1912; "Vacation Camping for Girls," 1913; "Leviathan," 1913; "Early English Hero Tales," 1915; "Three Welsh Plays," 1917. Winner of the Welsh National Theatre Prize, 1911. Lives at South Hadley, Ma.s.s.

*Haymakers.

*Old Lady Hudson.

(1) *MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR.* Born in New York City, Feb. 7, 1876. Graduated from Yale University, 1898. Books: "A Bunch of Grapes," 1897; "Tom Beauling," 1901; "Aladdin O'Brien," 1902; "The Pagan's Progress," 1904; "Ellen and Mr. Man," 1904; "The Footprint," 1908; "Putting on the Screws," 1909; "Spread Eagle," 1910; "The Voice in the Rice," 1910; "It," 1912; "If You Touch Them They Vanish," 1913; "The Penalty," 1915; "When My s.h.i.+p Comes In," 1915; "The G.o.ddess," 1915; "The Seven Darlings," 1915; "We Three," 1916. Lives in New York City.

Unsent Letter.

*MORTEN, MARJORY.* Born in New York City. Educated in boarding schools, studied art in Paris and New York. Married Alexander Morten, 1909. First story published, "Sophy So-and-So," Harper's Magazine, August, 1915.

Lives in New York City.

*Nettle and Foxglove.

*MOSELEY, KATHARINE PRESCOTT.* Born in Newburyport, Ma.s.s. Niece of Mrs.

Harriet Prescott Spofford. Privately educated in Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. Her father, a secretary of the I. C. Commission, spent over twenty years in his well-known work for the amelioration of railroad employees. His life was written by James Morgan. Miss Moseley's life has been spent between Newburyport, Was.h.i.+ngton, and Boston, with trips abroad. Her chief interests are in music and gardening. Her home is at Deer Island, Newburyport, Ma.s.s.

*Story Vinton Heard at Mallorie.

(23) *MYERS, WALTER L.* Born in Lawrence, Kans., 1886, and reared in Iowa. Educated in Iowa public schools, State University of Iowa and Harvard University. In civil life a.s.sistant Professor of English, University of Iowa. Now Second Lieutenant, Machine-Gun Training Centre, Camp Hanc.o.c.k, Ga. Chief interest, literature. First published story, "At the Crossing of the Trails," Outing, 1909.

*Clouds.

(4) *O'HIGGINS, HARVEY J.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Owen Carey.

*OPPENHEIM, JAMES.* Born at St. Paul, Minn., May 24, 1882. Educated at Columbia University. Engaged in Social Settlement Work in New York, 1901 to 1903. Married, 1905. Teacher and Acting Superintendent, Hebrew Technical School for Girls, New York, 1905 to 1907. Editor, the Seven Arts Magazine, 1916-17. First story published in a school paper at age of thirteen. Books: "Doctor Rast," 1909; "Monday Morning," 1909; "Wild Oats," 1910; "The Pioneers," 1910; "Pay-Envelopes," 1911; "The Nine-Tenths," 1911; "The Olympian," 1912; "Idle Wives," 1914; "Songs for the New Age," 1914; "The Beloved," 1915; "War and Laughter," 1916; "The Book of Self," 1917; "Night," 1918. Chief interests: running a Ford in the Litchfield Hills, taking care of chickens and gas engines, a.n.a.lytic psychology, talking with a friend, and writing poetry. Lives in New York City.

* Second-Rater.

(34) *O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

Exhibit C-470.

*PATTERSON, ELIZABETH.* Born in Old Fort Seward, Jamestown, Dakota Territory, and spent her childhood in the picturesque life of isolated army posts. Daughter of Brigadier-General John S. Patterson, U. S. A.

Educated at Cooperstown, N. Y., High School. Chief interests, traveling and out-of-door things. Expects to spend the coming winter in France in Red Cross service. First story published, "Sir Galahad," All-Story Weekly, May 18, 1918. Lives in Cooperstown, N. Y.

Sir Galahad.

*PATTERSON, NORMA.* Born at Jasper, Texas, July 6, 1891. Educated at Beaumont High School and University of Nashville. Chief interest at present, turning out khaki-colored sweaters. Is an earnest student of places, words, people, and national issues. First published story, "The Roll of Honor," Holland's Magazine, 1915. Lives in San Antonio, Tex.

*Unto Each His Crown.

*PAYNE, WILL.* Born on a farm in Whiteside County, Ill., Jan. 9, 1855.

Public-school education. Chief interests: writing and three grandchildren. "My first magazine story was published in the Century about 1891, but while I have a clear recollection of the indignation of the gentleman who unconsciously sat as a model for the leading character, I can't, to save me, recover the t.i.tle." Member of National Inst.i.tute of Arts and Letters. Engaged in journalism, 1890 to 1904.

Books: "Jerry the Dreamer," 1896; "The Money Captain," 1898; "The Story of Eva," 1901; "On Fortune's Road," 1902; "Mr. Salt," 1903; "When Love Speaks," 1906; "The Automatic Capitalist," 1909; "The Losing-Game,"

1909. Lives in Paw Paw, Mich.

*His Escape.

*PELLEY, WILLIAM DUDLEY.* An accomplished writer of Vermont stories, proprietor of the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, and editorial free lance. Is now traveling in Siberia. Lives at Bennington, Vt.

*Toast to Forty-Five.

(4) *PERRY, LAWRENCE.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Poet.

*PRATT, LUCY.* Born at Deerfield, Ma.s.s., July 29, 1874. Educated at Deerfield Academy, private school at Nyack, N. Y., Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, and Ma.s.sachusetts Inst.i.tute of Technology. Teacher at Hampton Inst.i.tute, 1897 to 1904. First story published, "The Entrance of Ezekiel." Books: "Ezekiel," 1909; "Ezekiel Expands," 1914; "Felix Tells It," 1915. Chief interests: human beings, music, literature, and changing seasons. Lives at Cambridge, Ma.s.s.

*Green Umbrellas.

(4) *PULVER, MARY BRECHT.* (_for biography, see 1917_).

*David and Jonathan.