The volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography. If not in the columns of the Atlantic, where else, by the way, should it be asked why the Letters of Lanier, edited by Mr. W. R.

His father and mother were Lithuanian and Welsh, respectively, before they were American. He was poor before he was rich, a New Englander before he moved West and a Democrat before he was a Republican ...

"Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography, first published between 1926 and 1937"--Vol. 1, p. xvii. "Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ...

THE reading of biography and of autobiography must be approached at widely divergent angles. The biography is in large measure a piece of work, well or ill done;, the autobiography, if sincere, is ...